Undergraduate students typically are able to regurgitate basic rules and formulas for probability. They also have little trouble following the cookbook steps for estimation and hypothesis testing. Microsoft Excel has empowered them to run regressions. We are not persuaded, however, that these...

Online course enrollments have grown tremendously in recent years, but little research has examined the difference in student performance between traditional courses and their online counterparts. This research explores factors affecting student performance in online courses, compared to what...

This paper explores a complementary method of teaching economics founded in the service learning approach, and evaluates the effectiveness of service learning programs where final-year students of college engaged in Community Service provide microeconomic assistance to underprivileged...

The paper sets out to describe and compare economics enrolment and graduation trends in the United States, Germany and Switzerland. Severe downturns are observed in all three countries at least since the beginning of this decade. This motivates a discussion of possible causes and remedial...

The use of economic analysis has become increasingly important for decision making in the business environment. Students who can demonstrate their ability to think analytically by applying economic concepts to business decisions are an attractive asset to many firms. As educators, we often look...

Sixty years ago, Schumpeter's Presidential Address to the American Economic Association discussed the "pre-scientific vision" underlying the research of individual economists. This paper argues that a similar concept can be applied to different students studying economics. Resource students at a...

The subject of linkages is the next logical step in growing movement to address the impact of international trade rules on other areas of the law formerly conceived of as either autonomous to international trade concerns or as purely domestic concerns. Conceiving of this set of issues as a...

An observed discrepancy in the behaviour of Economics students and non-Economics ones in game theoretical experiments indicates that the former are more selfish. The prevalent explanation for this is that they are 'born economists' and thus self-select themselves into the discipline. This belief...

In goods markets an equilibrium price balances demand and supply; in a financial market an equilibrium price also aggregates people's information. And while the underlying efficient market hypothesis is one of the centerpieces of capital market theory, students often have difficulties grasping...