This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It assembles recent empirical studies and contributes by presenting their main findings in a comprehensible manner as well as contextualizing them in the current economic and...

L'usage des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) participe de plus en plus à la restructuration de l’espace européen de formation. Dans ce contexte et sous un angle résolument organisationnel, cette communication analyse l'essor du e-Learning dans l’enseignement...

Italian Abstract: Elementi di teoria dei giochi necessari ad implementare e risolvere giochi statici e dinamici con informazione completa e incompleta. Particolare attenzione e dettagli di soluzione sono esposti per i giochi bayesiani dinamici con informazione incompleta

The new economics of multi-sided platforms involves a number of concepts that are familiar to economists as well as some new ones. This glossary, which is drawn from our book Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multi-sided Platforms, is an attempt to put together the main concepts and to provide...

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

One reason many college students shun economics is ineffective education. A more systematic way of explanation, with standardization and consistency, would promote learning of economic theories. This paper suggests a new framework for effective economic education. It begins with clear...

After the financial crisis, macroeconomics became an unsettled discipline raising pedagogical challenges as to how to teach principles courses. This article concerns a principles of economics course that was initially taught with traditional methods. After students performed poorly during the...

One reason many college students shun economics is ineffective education. A more systematic way of explanation, with standardization and consistency, would promote learning of economic theories. This paper suggests a new framework for effective economics education. It begins with clear...

We describe our experience with integrating a semester-long economic analysis project into an intermediate macroeconomic theory course. Students work in teams of "economic advisors" to write a series of nested reports for a decision-maker that analyze the current state of the economy, and...