Carefully designed classroom activities and games can be used to increase student engagement, motivation, and learning. This article describes two games that have been used with students of risk management and insurance to help highlight the intricacies of insurance pricing. These two games,...

Explains that if the budget is to be balanced, at least half or more of that solution will be in taxes.

Cooperatives are major participants in grain production and marketing in the United States and Soviet Bloc countries. U.S. cooperatives, for example, receive more than 40 percent of off-farm grain sales, while cooperatives in most Soviet Bloc countries account for more than two-thirds of grain...

The impacts of the former Soviet Union leaving the world wheat market as a consistent net importer are investigated using a modified spatial trade equilibrium model. The simulation results suggest that the former Soviet Union, following Bigman's stochastic trade hypothesis, can have a...

This thesis includes two essays analyzing two separate topics. The first essay investigates the role of asymmetric information in explaining one of the major puzzles in International Finance. The second essay investigates what kind of performance information that the financial institutions use...