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Does education really matter for environmental quality?

Kinda, Romuald S - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 2612-2626

This paper investigates the impact of education on the growth of carbon dioxide emissions per capita over the period … 1970-2004 in 85 countries. Using panel data and applying GMM-System estimations, our results suggest that education has no … sub-sample, education does matter for air pollution growth in the developed countries. More interestingly, when …

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Schooling, Working Experiences, and Human Capital Formation

Mino, Kazuo; Hu, Yunfang - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2005) 3, pp. 1-8

education in schools and the other is accumulated through working experiences in production activities. Introducing such a …-run growth is not necessarily associated with a higher level of education attainment. …

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Schooling, Working Experiences, and Human Capital Formation

Mino, Kazuo; Hu, Yunfang - In: Economics Bulletin 15 (2005) 3, pp. 1-8

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Efficiency in English higher education institutions revisited: a network approach

Johnes, Geraint - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 2698-2706

The efficiency of English higher education institutions is evaluated using a traditional ‘black-box' data envelopment …

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Do local financial and legal systems affect SMEs capital structure?

Agostino, Mariarosaria; Rocca, Maurizio La; Rocca, … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 260-271

structure. Specifically, its aim is to empirically assess whether and to what extent SMEs' financial decisions are affected by …, we find that local financial development may be an important determinant of SMEs' capital structure, and that firms … for SMEs, which are in need of well developed institutions at local level to gain easier access to external financial …

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Determinant of Co-authorship in economics: the French case

Besancenot, Damien; Huynh, Kim V.; Serranito, Francisco - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 1, pp. 680-693

This paper aims at estimating the determinants of co-authorship in economics. More specifically, we test if there is a relationship between the efficiency in research of an individual and that of his co-authors using a novel database of French academics. The main empirical result is that the...

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Do students recognize an opportunity cost when they see one? Evidence from introductory economics

Polley, William - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1550-1556

The well-known study by Ferraro and Taylor (2005) on the understanding of opportunity cost has sparked considerable debate. This paper addresses one specific aspect of the question, namely the issue of units of measurement when converting goods to dollars for comparison purposes. Results...

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Plato's Republic and liberal economic education for the twenty-first century

Wagner, Jeffrey - In: Economics Bulletin 1 (2007) 2, pp. 1-10

understanding of these two central economic concepts, in the process of promoting the importance of liberal education in general …

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Perspectives on teaching international macroeconomics and finance: is there more consensus in the 2000s?

Chen, Shiu-Sheng - In: Economics Bulletin 1 (2006) 3, pp. 1-20

This paper surveys the current state of teaching in international macroeconomics and finance. After collecting graduate international macroeconomics syllabi taught by international economists in the leading US economics departments between 2001 and 2005, I study whether there is consensus on...

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A big picture for teaching macroeconomics principles

Kennedy, Peter - In: Economics Bulletin 1 (2008) 1, pp. 1-6

The economy can be viewed as consisting of four sectors, the goods and services, labor, monetary, and international sectors, with overall equilibrium consisting of simultaneous equilibrium in each of these sectors. Interactions among these markets headaches for students. The “big picture” of...

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