This paper describes how to implement and run a game for teaching the principles of money and banking to an undergraduate economics class. The game primarily deals with the market for loanable funds, but numerous extensions are provided to cover topics such as monetary policy, the tools of the...

The paper uses a panel of athletic department revenue and expenditure data of 227 public colleges and universities to empirically investigate the behavior of NCAA Division I athletic departments over the period 2006 – 2011. Four primary hypotheses were tested: (1) the effect of revenue changes...

This paper describes how to implement and run a game for teaching the principles of money and banking to an undergraduate economics class. The game primarily deals with the market for loanable funds, but numerous extensions are provided to cover topics such as monetary policy, the tools of the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how consumption of 12 goods – alcohol, cigarettes, fast food, items sold at vending machines, purchases of food away from home, cookies, cakes, chips, candy, donuts, bacon, and carbonated soft drinks – varies across the income distribution by...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of small-business lending following the recession. Design/methodology/approach The authors survey the literature and analyze recent surveys of small-business lending. Findings The results reinforce the importance of owner equity as a...

This study provides a systematic analysis of selective consumption tax policy. We detail both the motivations behind selective consumption taxes and the policy's shortcomings. Empirically, we explore how consumption of 12 goods?alcohol, cigarettes, fast food, items sold at vending machines,...

Many, but not all, US state governments have adopted preference policies that give an advantage to in-state businesses (vendors) that submit bid proposals for state projects. Most preference policies are specified in a specific percentage advantage, which means that an in-state vendor will be...

This paper describes the outcome of an artefactual field experiment of group discrimination using sports fanatics. The behavior of individuals whose identity is deeply tied to a larger group or popular institution is politically important, particularly when it comes to crafting public policy....