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Discourse And Ideological Strategies In Presidential Campaign Speeches Of Mr Peter Obi, Richard Oliseyenum Oliseyenum Maledo, Rita Ejiro Enisire Jan 2026

Discourse And Ideological Strategies In Presidential Campaign Speeches Of Mr Peter Obi, Richard Oliseyenum Oliseyenum Maledo, Rita Ejiro Enisire

International Review of Humanities Studies

Studies on political speeches in Nigeria have focused essentially on the speeches of political office inaugural speeches and speeches of political office holders, while not much appears to be done on the speeches of candidates who did not succeed in the election. Thus, this study undertakes a critical analysis of discourse and ideological strategies in the presidential campaign speeches of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, in the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria. Mr Peter Obi's speech in Akwa Ibom State is purposively selected as our data for this study, and Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive approach to …

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Economic Outlook Of Battle Creek: Challenges And Opportunities, Iryna V. Lendel, Chloe Wieber, Sevrin Williams, Gerrit Anderson Jan 2026

Economic Outlook Of Battle Creek: Challenges And Opportunities, Iryna V. Lendel, Chloe Wieber, Sevrin Williams, Gerrit Anderson

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

This report by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research examines labor market dynamics in Battle Creek, finding that roughly 75 percent of jobs in the city are held by workers who live outside the city limits, with significant skill mismatches between city residents and local employer needs. This mismatch helps explain persistently low wages, elevated poverty rates, and high reliance on public assistance among city residents despite a strong manufacturing base and growing logistics, food processing, and machining sectors. Limited housing supply, inadequate public transportation, and childcare shortages further restrict residents’ access to employment. The report underscores the urgency …

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Economic Impacts Of Abolishing Vertical Integration In The Us Pork Industry, Konstantinos Giannakas Jan 2026

Economic Impacts Of Abolishing Vertical Integration In The Us Pork Industry, Konstantinos Giannakas

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

This paper develops a multi-market framework of analysis of vertical relationships in pork production and game theoretic models of heterogeneous firms to examine the economic, market and welfare impacts of abolishing vertical integration in the US pork sector. Different scenarios on the causes of vertical integration and the potential states of nature that can emerge after the removal of this vertical market arrangement are considered within this framework. Analytical results are consistent across the different scenarios and forms of strategic interactions between pork producers and indicate that the abolishment of vertical integration in the US pork sector will hurt pork …

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Promoting Bromo Geological Heritage: Development Storymaps As Web Geographic Information Systems For Edutourism, Alfyananda Kurnia Putra, Batchuluun Yembuu, Diky Al Khalidy, Philipp Baidoo Jan 2026

Promoting Bromo Geological Heritage: Development Storymaps As Web Geographic Information Systems For Edutourism, Alfyananda Kurnia Putra, Batchuluun Yembuu, Diky Al Khalidy, Philipp Baidoo

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

Mount Bromo has the potential to be a Geological Heritage Site (Geosite) in learning Geography, but it is hampered by accessibility such as cost, risk, time, and other physical limitations. This study aims to develop and evaluate Web GIS Storymaps media for Geography learning. This research is Research and Development (R&D) with the ADDIE model, which consists of five stages, namely Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The resulting product is “Edutourism Bromo Volcano”, a storymap-based learning media that can be accessed on various devices. The results of the evaluation showed that this media was “Very Feasible” by material and …

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Student's Disaster Comprehension In Merapi Eruption Disaster Prone Area: A New Approach Of Measuring Disaster Preparedness Profile Toward Young Generation, Agus Dwi Febrianto, Muhammad Nursa'ban, Zahid Zufar At Thaariq, James Leonard Mwakapemba Jan 2026

Student's Disaster Comprehension In Merapi Eruption Disaster Prone Area: A New Approach Of Measuring Disaster Preparedness Profile Toward Young Generation, Agus Dwi Febrianto, Muhammad Nursa'ban, Zahid Zufar At Thaariq, James Leonard Mwakapemba

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

The number of disaster incidents in Indonesia causes disaster risk reduction efforts in Indonesia, especially young people, to need to be optimally increased. The extent of efforts to improve the preparedness of the younger generation cannot be known without going through the initial identification of disaster preparedness based on the youth profile. This study aims to describe and identify the preparedness profile of young people based on disaster preparedness measurement instruments. The method used in this study is descriptive by presenting, describing, and analyzing further data to find new conclusions and discoveries by comparing several data. Data collection was carried …

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Development Of Sustainable Economy Programs In Langkat Regency, North Sumatra: Characteristics Of Coastal Communities And Mangrove Utilization, Meilinda Suriani Harefa, Mohamed Abdelwareth, Armin Rahmansyah Nasution, M Taufik Rahmadi, Dwi Irfansyah, Nurul 'Ain Jan 2026

Development Of Sustainable Economy Programs In Langkat Regency, North Sumatra: Characteristics Of Coastal Communities And Mangrove Utilization, Meilinda Suriani Harefa, Mohamed Abdelwareth, Armin Rahmansyah Nasution, M Taufik Rahmadi, Dwi Irfansyah, Nurul 'Ain

Jurnal Pendidikan Geografi: Kajian, Teori, dan Praktek dalam Bidang Pendidikan dan Ilmu Geografi

Langkat Regency is one of the regencies in North Sumatra with a mangrove forest area of 26,774 hectares in 2024. Mangrove forests offer numerous benefits to coastal communities. Beyond serving as ecosystem resources, mangrove forests also provide economic benefits to coastal residents. Since the 1990s, coastal communities in Langkat Regency have begun cutting down forests for firewood without understanding the potential impacts. If this phenomenon continues, mangrove forest deforestation will worsen. The research aims to identify the characteristics of coastal communities in Langkat Regency, analyze the economic programs favored by these communities, and develop economic program models that sustainably utilize …

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The Effect Of The Socioeconomic Variety In Greater Cairo On Transport Mode Choices, Rafik Yanni Jan 2026

The Effect Of The Socioeconomic Variety In Greater Cairo On Transport Mode Choices, Rafik Yanni

Theses and Dissertations

In the last decade, Egypt has experienced a noticeable upgrade in its infrastructure investment, implementing a lot of transport projects, especially in the Greater Cairo region. In a city with over 20 million residents, variations lie in socioeconomic elements like income, age, gender, and neighborhood, which shape people’s choice of mobility modes based on their culture and lifestyle. The questions then become: whom are these new projects targeting? What are the barriers to using these services? And is there any willingness to change commuting habits if conditions changed? This thesis investigates how the socioeconomic variety in Greater Cairo metropolitan region …

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Critical Design And The Robotic Imaginary: Design Criticism And Critical Robots, Jörgen Behrendtz Jan 2026

Critical Design And The Robotic Imaginary: Design Criticism And Critical Robots, Jörgen Behrendtz

The Journal of Sociotechnical Critique

This paper brings critical design and design criticism to critical robot studies. Critical design can be described as an umbrella term for approaches making use of speculative designs to highlight and challenge narrow assumptions, preconceptions or even taken-for-granted truths about the role products play (in a wide sense) in everyday life. Design criticism refers to a reasoned procedure that investigates emancipatory and/or limiting potentials of designs, theorizes the roles of affordances, materials and embodied perception as epistemological resources in media interaction, and clarifies connections between specific design choices and their associated experiential qualities, seductive powers, ideological underpinnings, material operations, and …

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Pilot Study: Role Of Social Support And Stress On Anxiety In First-Year College Students, Erin N. Smith, Deven L. Dancy, Lauren E. Nee, Kali Rebuck, Stephanie J. Shirk Jan 2026

Pilot Study: Role Of Social Support And Stress On Anxiety In First-Year College Students, Erin N. Smith, Deven L. Dancy, Lauren E. Nee, Kali Rebuck, Stephanie J. Shirk

Journal of Applied Disciplines

Research indicates worsening mental health, especially anxiety, in college populations; yet few studies have investigated anxiety and related factors in this population. This study examined the impacts and interrelations among anxiety, stress, and social support in first year, first semester college students. In a sample of 119 students, the following models of the impact of social support in the stress-anxiety relation were tested: 1) a direct impact of social support, 2) a moderating effect of social support, and 3) an indirect impact of social support. Results indicated that the indirect model of the influence of social support best fit the …

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Some Potential Issues With A Student Managed Investment Program At Small Liberal Arts Colleges: The Berry College Experience Jan 2026

Some Potential Issues With A Student Managed Investment Program At Small Liberal Arts Colleges: The Berry College Experience

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper focuses on potential issues with student managed investment funds (SMIFs) with emphasis on small liberal arts colleges. A potential solution to alleviate some of these issues is proposed (a policy portfolio) and implemented. The initial results are presented and the subsequent influence of these results on club behavior is discussed.

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Operating A Student-Managed Investment Fund In A Small Class Setting Jan 2026

Operating A Student-Managed Investment Fund In A Small Class Setting

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

The student managed investment fund (SMIF) at Midwestern State University was founded in 2010 and offers students an experiential learning opportunity. This article discusses its operational structure, investment policies, and strategies. It also discusses efforts to motivate students to run the SMIF as a productive team.

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A Student Fund In A One-Hour Lab Jan 2026

A Student Fund In A One-Hour Lab

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

First-hand experiences considering relevant research are used to examine the benefits and difficulties in implementing a studentmanaged investment fund through a repeatable one-hour lab format at a small regional state university. Implementing a student-managed fund in a lab format with fewer hours than a regular course reduces demands on faculty teaching load as well as on available hours in a student’s academic program. The multi-semester approach allows a stepwise progression of learning over multiple semesters, but its major difficulty is managing the mix of student skill levels.

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Dave Ramsey’S Personal Finance: A Primer And Critique Jan 2026

Dave Ramsey’S Personal Finance: A Primer And Critique

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Author and radio host Dave Ramsey advises millions of people on personal finance. Starting from the assumption that people are not good at maximizing their own utility, he recommends a rules-based approach that often directly contradicts conventional instruction in personal finance. This article shows how Ramsey’s recommendations follow from his behavioral assumptions and highlights some of his specific recommendations about financial products and services that are at odds with traditional personal finance. After making these contrasts, the article outlines implications for educators who, whether they agree with Ramsey’s approach or not, should understand the strengths and limitations of his approach.

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Priming Effects Of Instructor-Expressed Judgments Of The Difficulty Of Quantitative Material On Student Performance And Perceptions Jan 2026

Priming Effects Of Instructor-Expressed Judgments Of The Difficulty Of Quantitative Material On Student Performance And Perceptions

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

We investigate whether instructors teaching quantitative material can influence student performance through priming, a psychological phenomenon wherein exposure to a stimulus can influence memory and behavior. We first examine whether instructors can influence performance by priming students with statements stating that a quantitative problem has “Advanced” or “Basic” difficulty. We then investigate effects of priming on perceived difficulty. Priming does not affect performance but does affect perceptions. Compared to no priming, Basic priming reduces perceived difficulty, while Advanced priming increases female students’ perceived difficulty. Male students view Basic problems to be easier, but do not see Advanced problems as harder.

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Traditional, Online, Or Flipped Classes–Which Do Students Prefer? Jan 2026

Traditional, Online, Or Flipped Classes–Which Do Students Prefer?

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper describes the creation of a flipped classroom based on experimentation, student feedback, and an instructor’s impressions about learning outcomes. Based on 601 student responses to a survey administered between 2014 and 2018 to lower and upper level economics classes at a four-year public university, this paper finds that the majority of students preferred flipped to traditional as well as to 100% online classes. Other results indicate that students preferred watching lecture videos to reading textbooks or attending in-class lectures, and preferred weekly-structured assignments over dailystructured assignments. However, findings indicate mixed student preferences with respect to flipped mastery.

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Using Cluster Analysis In Financial Services: A Teaching Case Jan 2026

Using Cluster Analysis In Financial Services: A Teaching Case

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

A teaching case appropriate for students in finance, analytics, or related areas is presented for applying cluster analysis to the financial services industry. Based on a real case (modified for confidentiality), it presents students with a real-life scenario where cluster analysis is the appropriate tool to use for addressing a business problem. A credit marketing problem is presented, and incorporates the idea of predictive modeling within clusters. A top-down approach is taken to teach cluster analysis, with the business application and interpretation of results presented first, followed by the algorithm and other details.

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Editor's Note Jan 2026

Editor's Note

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

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Teaching Margin Trading And Financial Leverage Together Jan 2026

Teaching Margin Trading And Financial Leverage Together

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Margin trading and financial leverage are typically taught separately from each other. In this study, we present a pedagogical approach with a dual focus on margin trading and financial leverage. We borrow the insights and tools from financial leverage in a corporate setting and apply them to margin trading as a special case of financing an investment using debt and equity. In addition to producing a simple and intuitive formula for performance calculations on a margin trade, our approach offers the benefit of improving students' understanding of how margin trading and financial leverage operate in general.

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Excel Templates For Illustrating Tvm Calculations And A Financial Calculator With Associated Excel Functions Jan 2026

Excel Templates For Illustrating Tvm Calculations And A Financial Calculator With Associated Excel Functions

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Time value of money calculations are illustrated through developing a timeline with cash flow graphics in Excel. The graphic is readily adjustable to different scenarios making it useful for multiple time value of money topics (e.g., NPV, MIRR, etc.). Further, a second graphic illustrates a financial calculator that also provides the associated Excel functions. Both graphics can be used in the live or virtual classroom and as a resource for students outside of the classroom.

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Teaching Foreign Exchange Rates: A Primer Jan 2026

Teaching Foreign Exchange Rates: A Primer

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Given the importance of foreign exchange in introductory economics courses, this paper aims at providing a full and intuitive teaching of foreign exchange. First, there is a review of how the major current introductory texts offer somewhat inadequate treatment of the topic. Then, international transactions within a balance of payments framework are explained. Importantly, the market equilibrium exchange rate between the dollar and the euro is concurrently derived. Finally, the paper introduces, within a comparative static framework, changes in exchange rates from changes in major macroeconomic variables: the GDP of trading partners, domestic price level, and real interest rates.

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The Cost Of Underperforming Investments Jan 2026

The Cost Of Underperforming Investments

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Underperforming investments change a firm's equity value, cost of equity, capital structure and cost of capital. We show how to correctly adjust the cost of capital and correctly value a firm with underperforming investments. The correct equity estimate equates the equity value derived from the Economic Profit Model with the equity used to estimate the WACC. We demonstrate how underperforming investments can reduce equity value even though earnings may increase. We confirm our results with the Residual Earnings Model and show that our approach for valuing a company with underperforming investments also works well with investments that increase equity value.

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Advancing The Introduction To Both Narratives Of Aggregate Output: A New Model Jan 2026

Advancing The Introduction To Both Narratives Of Aggregate Output: A New Model

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

There are two prominent theoretical perspectives on the determination of aggregate output: The general equilibrium perspective and the reactive, circular flow perspective that relates economic activity instigating further activity. The former replaced the latter as the dominant view within macroeconomics over 30 years ago, but the lack of general equilibrium models (i.e., dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models) suitable for undergraduates has kept such models out of the undergraduate curriculum. This paper presents a model that captures both narratives within the same model environment that makes their fundamental theoretical differences manifestly clear in a way that is accessible to undergraduates.

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Teaching The Causes Of Great Depression To College Students: Evidence From History, Economics, And Economic History Textbooks Jan 2026

Teaching The Causes Of Great Depression To College Students: Evidence From History, Economics, And Economic History Textbooks

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

We survey the treatment of the Depression in college-level textbooks for courses in US history and economics. History textbooks emphasis on inequality, the stock market crash, and underconsumption as the primary causes does not reflect the consensus of economic historians. Introductory economics textbooks use the Great Depression as an example to illustrate macroeconomic concepts in ways aligned with the research consensus, which emphasizes declining aggregate demand and issues related to monetary policy and the financial system. History textbooks could be improved by focusing more on bank failures, the actions of the Federal Reserve, monetary deflation, and declines in autonomous spending.

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Are Banks "Ripping Off' The Consumer When It Comes To Mortgages? Jan 2026

Are Banks "Ripping Off' The Consumer When It Comes To Mortgages?

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

In this pedagogical paper, we answer two questions: If someone has a fixed-rate mortgage and pays it off after only a few years, is the bank "ripping off' the consumer because of the low equity; and when is the interest portion of a mortgage payment exactly equal to the principal portion? The mathematics inherent to a fixed-rate mortgage dictate that a greater portion of interest is paid in the early years. To find the exact point in time when the interest and principal payments are exactly equal requires examining this question using continuous function mathematics.

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Teachers' Knowledge And Attitudes About The Fed Jan 2026

Teachers' Knowledge And Attitudes About The Fed

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

A survey of teachers in the Fed's twelfth district investigates knowledge about how the central bank influences the economy. Focusing on teachers from different content areas, we find that teacher knowledge, for the most part, varies as expected given different teaching disciplines. Teachers are more aware of the Fed's goal of price stability than full employment and score relatively high on questions relating to current events. As well, teachers with more knowledge were more likely to have positive attitudes about the job the Fed was doing. We recommend improving Fed communications to improve economic education for teachers and the public.

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Robust Analysis: An Investments Class Project On A Shoestring Jan 2026

Robust Analysis: An Investments Class Project On A Shoestring

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

We propose an investments class project to help students recognize ways to evaluate the robustness of an analytical result and understand the importance of performing such an evaluation. In the first part of the project, students derive basic results for naïve diversification. Then they apply four methods for evaluating the robustness of their initial conclusions: simple replication, an alternative market proxy in the single-index market model, an alternative asset pricing model (the FamaFrench Three-factor Model), and results from another historical period.

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Know Math Or Take A Bath On A Finance Final Exam Jan 2026

Know Math Or Take A Bath On A Finance Final Exam

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Math is central to finance education, yet three-quarters of this sample of 159 introductory finance students lack critical quantitative skills on the first day of class, leading to overall underperformance. By utilizing criterion-referenced mathematics pretest items and matching applied finance posttest items, we find that students with substandard math skills rarely catch-up in the quantitative aspects of introductory finance. Indeed, the pretest determines a significant proportion of final exam performance, with the average student gaining a meager 5% between pretest and posttest. We discuss curricular implications of these findings and research-based approaches to facilitate course readiness.

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Teaching The Economics And Convergence Of The Binomial And The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formulas Jan 2026

Teaching The Economics And Convergence Of The Binomial And The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formulas

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper simplifies the economics of option pricing formulas by clarifying how the no-arbitrage principle ensures that a risk-neutral valuation relationship (based on risk-neutral probabilities) exists between an option and its underlying asset. A spreadsheet exercise shows how binomial probabilities and prices numerically converge to Black-Scholes probabilities and prices, and further numerical analysis reveals how the histogram of terminal stock returns in the multi-period binomial tree converges in probability to the normal distribution. Recommendations for teaching option pricing and convergence include the use of a hypothetical case study of a graduating student’s comparison of competing salary offers.

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A Vba Solution To Modern Portfolio Theory Jan 2026

A Vba Solution To Modern Portfolio Theory

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

The purpose of this article is to provide finance instructors an example of how to teach students to integrate Visual Basic for Application (VBA) into a modern portfolio theory application. Using tactical asset allocation as an example, we show how to teach students to use Excel to (1) collect refreshable data, (2) organize the data into input, (3) construct an efficient frontier, and (4) use VBA to automate the process. Our step-bystep methodology is intuitive and can be used for teaching how to integrate VBA into other dynamic and integrative financial models.

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Teaching The Quantity Theory Of Money: A Simple Classroom Game Jan 2026

Teaching The Quantity Theory Of Money: A Simple Classroom Game

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper presents a classroom exercise that helps students understand the quantity theory of money and the implied relationship between money supply growth and inflation. In addition, the role and meaning of velocity is highlighted. The activity is easily implemented and only requires paper, pencil, and a spreadsheet to record data generated by the students. One major advantage of this game is that the outcome will almost always support the theoretical implications of the quantity equation. This is opposed to other simulations, which can sometimes differ dramatically from the model's prediction.

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