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Can Great Depression Theories Explain the Great Recession?
Schlenkhoff, Georg - 2009
The recent recession has brought a sharp decrease in income, output, and world trade, as well as an increase in unemployment in developed and underdeveloped countries. Experts such as Paul Krugman, Christina Romer, or Barry Eichengreen, compare the current situation with the Great Depression of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015219881
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Establishing a comprehensive census of undergraduate economics curricula:Foundational and special requirements for major programs in the U.S.
Turner, Grant - 2018
This study is the first of a series of studies, collectively embodying a multiphase mixed methods design. The overall objective of these studies is to explore and address a variety of issues and features of the discipline of economics, particularly as they relate to and represent past present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015220548
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The Impact of Innovation into the Economic Growth
Gerguri, Shqipe; Ramadani, Veland - 2010
Competition between companies differentiates a lot nowadays compared to many years before. They compete in "nicety" that are so small but so important. Companies are trying to achieve competitive advantage in order to help them obtain a better and a stable position in the marketplace. The best...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015221321
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Trafficking in drugs and economic theory
Pandey, S.S.D. - 1991
The focus of this study is on black markets which provide an important segment of the parallel economy. These markets operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore both theoretically and empirically. The problem,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229963
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Governments in economic crisis: What is the 99% and why does it exist?
Punabantu, Siize - 2012
What is the 99% and why does it exist? In this paper an attempt is made to explain why socio-economic unrest remains a modern problem. An effort has to be made to understand the origins of strife in systemic design of modern economics. Without this knowledge it may not be possible to fix the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015231018
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The economics curriculum in Australian Universities 1980 to 2011
Thornton, Tim B - 2011
This paper examines the recent evolution of the Australian economics curriculum. First, it examines 2011 survey evidence produced by the Economic Society of Australia that shows that the Australian economics profession wishes to see a broadening and updating of what is taught. These findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015232414
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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment in … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269172
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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment in … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271083
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Academic Scholarship in Light of the 2008 Financial Crisis: Textual Analysis of NBER Working Papers
Levy, Daniel; Mayer, Tamir; Raviv, Alon - 2020
Textual analysis of the NBER Working Papers published during 1999–2016 is done to assess the effects of the 2007–2009 crisis on the academic literature. The volume of crisis-related WPs is counter-cyclical, lagging the financial-instability-index. WPs by the Monetary-Economics,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015266578
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Academic Scholarship in Light of the 2008 Financial Crisis: Textual Analysis of NBER Working Papers
Levy, Daniel; Mayer, Tamir; Raviv, Alon - 2020
Textual analysis of 14,270 NBER Working Papers published during 1999–2016 is done to assess the effects of the 2008 crisis on the economics literature. The volume of crisis-related WPs is counter-cyclical, lagging the financial-instability-index. WPs by the Monetary-Economics, Asset-Pricing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015266597