Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter can help employees enhance a company's marketing, recruiting, security, and safety. However, employees' use of social networking sites and employers' access of those sites can result in illegal and unethical behavior, such as discrimination...

Corporate social networking sites provide employees and employers with considerable opportunity to share information and become friends. Unfortunately, American and international laws do not directly address social networking site usage. The National Labor Relations Act, civil rights laws, and...

Volatile gasoline prices are frequently mentioned in the press. Using more than thirty years of consumer sentiment data, we analyze the relationship between changes in gasoline prices and its impact on consumer sentiment. We find a negative relationship between changes in gasoline prices and its...

We examine the relationship between investment and saving for a cross section of European countries before and during the euro crisis. Investment is positively and significantly related to saving, and this relationship is stronger during the euro crisis period. This increase is a departure from...

This study documents the creation, structure, and performance of a Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) carved out of a Jesuit Liberal Arts University's endowment funds. With more Universities looking to incorporate SMIFs into their curriculum, or to provide an experiential learning...

There is an increasing interest in the economic and financial knowledge of the public. Former Federal Reserve Chairmen Greenspan and Bernanke often stressed the importance of improved economic and financial knowledge of the general public. Using recent survey results from the 2012 National...

We examine the returns of gold mining stocks, gold, and a diversified portfolio of U.S. stocks over a period from 2006 to 2015. We find that the return on gold mining stocks is explained more by the return on gold than by the return on stocks. Because gold mining stocks are more like gold than...