Category: Arts & Education and Social Studies

Knowledge practices: ‘doing the subject’ in undergraduate courses This article addresses the themes of this special issue by examining the disciplinary dimensions of learning and teaching within undergraduate courses in the areas of biology and history. Key ways of thinking and practising that biology and history lecturers wished to foster in their students are identified….

English teaching in Indonesia. Using Kachru s 1992 classification of English users in the world, Indonesia belongs to the third category, the ‘Expanding Circle – that is a circle in which only a small percentage of the people speak the language, and non-natively. No figures are available at the moment as to the number of…

The size and composition of government expenditure This paper tests several leading hypotheses on determinants of government expenditure. The purpose is to avoid omitted variables bias by testing the prominent theories in a comprehensive specification, to identify persistent puzzles for the current set of theories, and to explore those puzzles in greater depth by looking…

Quantifying the impact of financial development on economic development How important is financial development for economic development? A costly state verification model of financial intermediation is presented to address this question. The model is calibrated to match facts about the U.S. economy, such as the intermediation spreads and the firm-size distributions for 1974 and 2004….

Changes in undergraduate students’ psychological well‐being as they progress through university This article investigates the psychological well‐being of students from all faculties across their undergraduate degree from pre‐registration to semester two of year three at one UK university. Data were collected on seven occasions, with 66% of students who began their studies between 2000 and…

Public Debt and Growth This paper explores the impact of high public debt on long-run economic growth. The analysis, based on a panel of advanced and emerging economies over almost four decades, takes into account a broad range of determinants of growth as well as various estimation issues including reverse causality and endogeneity. In addition,…

On the definition and classification of cybercrime The idea of Cybercrime is not new, yet there is significant confusion amongst academics, computer security experts and users as to the extent of real Cybercrime. In this paper, we explore the breadth of computer-based crime, providing a definition of the emerging terms “Cybercrime” and “crimeware”. We then…