Previous research has examined the factors affecting student learning and academic performance, including attendance, prior GPA, and college entrance exam scores. This study seeks to expand the literature with a data set for introductory macroeconomics classes at a public liberal art college....

This paper examines the impact of capital import liberalization on the balance of payments when protection takes the form of a quota and when it takes the form of a tariff. Since tariff liberalization affects tax revenues, the analysis of tariff liberalization allows for a fiscal imbalance and a...

Imperfectly credible trade liberalization can lead to balance of payment deterioration and a subsequent reversal of the reform. Therefore, this paper examines whether the likelihood of policy reversal depends on the rate of tariff reduction or the degree of labor mobility. The analysis shows...

Economists have long contended that globalization generates massive gains in efficiency, output, choice, and agency around those choices. Yet, for a broad swath of the public, the economic case for globalization may not be viewed as decisive as it once was. Forces favoring populism and...