We sat down and talked with Cole Folwell a 2019 Notre Dame, Political Science graduate. Cole's path as a trader at Citi is far from traditional. He talks about his experiences at Citi and how that's helped him to transition into his new role at Roca news. As Head of Growth for Roca, Cole talks to us about the state of news today and why he felt compelled to right the ship with Roca.
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Rudi Bachmann is the Stepan Family College Professor of Economics at Notre Dame.
Recently, he co-authored a paper, https://www.econtribute.de/RePEc/ajk/ajkpbs/ECONtribute_PB_028_2022.pdf, that gained a lot of traction on Twitter. We sat down with Rudi to discuss the paper and Germany's reliance on Russian energy.
VoxEu Article regarding the paper
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All Else Equal listeners.....we're back.
We thought it was appropriate to dust off the mic and dissect the Ukraine crisis and the economic sanctions levied on Russia.
Zach Stangebye is the Quinn and Jean Stepan Assistant Professor of Economics at Notre Dame. He received his doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. He is a macroeconomist specializing in macroeconomic and international finance. The bulk of his research focuses on international financial crises originating in sovereign debt markets, with a particular emphasis on coordination failures across time.
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Steve Reifenberg is an associate professor of the practice of international development and co-director of the Integration Lab (i-Lab). He also is senior strategic advisor and faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Reifenberg’s current research project, “From Aid to Accompaniment,” explores international development as a process of accompaniment. In his teaching about development, he is interested in interactive pedagogical approaches such as engaging students with international development “clients.”
Before coming to Notre Dame in February 2010, Reifenberg worked for nearly two decades on international education, negotiation and development issues at Harvard University.
From 1996 to 2002, Reifenberg served as the Executive Director of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In 2002, he established Harvard’s first-ever university-wide office overseas in Santiago, Chile, an office that he directed for seven years.
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As Forrest announced, our summer book club will be Jim Otteson's "Seven Deadly Economic Sins". Be prepared for some special guests joining us over the summer to talk!
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Rob Collinson is the Wilson Family LEO Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of Notre Dame and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO).
He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in housing policy, urban policy, and the design of anti-poverty programs. He completed his Ph.D. from New York University.
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John Shim is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on empirical asset pricing, market microstructure, and financial market design. His work on high-frequency trading and the design of stock exchanges has been featured in Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the Economist, and has been discussed by the SEC Chair and the New York Attorney General. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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Jeff Campbell is the Frances D. Rasmus and Jerome A. Castellini Professor of Economics. Before coming to Notre Dame, he served as Senior Economist and Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. His research covers macroeconomics, industrial organization, and econometrics. Much of Jeff's research applies dynamic game theory to create tractable econometric models of strategic interactions between "large players," such as central banks and dominant firms in concentrated industries
Here is the NY Fed paper which prompted this discussion with Jeff.
If you want to learn more about Hugo van Buggenum
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Robert Battalio is currently a professor of Finance at the University of Notre Dame. Robert has also served on the faculty of Georgia State University, as a visiting academic at the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, and as the first NASD visiting academic fellow.
Robert has consulted for Fidelity, the New York Stock Exchange, LaBranche, Goldman Sachs, NYFIX, NASDR, the Nasdaq Intermarket, Archipelago, Susquehanna, and Knight Securities. His primary area of interest involves the relationship between financial market design and trading costs. He is currently studying whether the post-earnings announcement drift survives transactions costs, who trades on accruals information, trading costs in the equity option market, and price discovery in option markets. Robert’s work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies, among others. Robert has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, the Newark Star Ledger, Inc Magazine, Business Week On-Line, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Letter, Christian Science Monitor, CNNfn, USA Today, Barrons, and Securities Week.
GameStop's Shift to Dark Trading
Jim Angel's paper Gamestonk: What happened and what to do about it
Netflix's Challenger and the very awesome academic paper discussing the Challenger explosion and market efficiency
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On this week's episode, we talk to Jim Sullivan. Professor Sullivan is the Gilbert F. Schaefer College Professor of Economics at Notre Dame. He has been a visiting scholar at the National Poverty Center and a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Harris School. His research examines the consumption, saving, and borrowing behavior of poor households, and how welfare and tax policy affects the well-being of the poor. In 2012, with fellow Notre Dame Professor William Evans, Professor Sullivan founded the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO). LEO is a research center that works with service providers to identify effective and replicable solutions to reduce poverty in America.
Our conversation discusses economics as a social engineering tool and we try to understand where does economics go right, where is it doing okay, and where can economics do better.
For more on Jim's work visit his Google Scholar Page
For more information about LEO
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Alison is an alum of and former associate director of advising services in the Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame. Currently, she splits her time authoring children's books, like "Ready Regan?", and hosting the podcast "The Open Book Test", where she talks to recent Notre Dame grads to discuss why they made the decisions they did as to major, career path etc. and together they reflect on how that all worked out.
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Spencer and Tommy are Notre Dame undergrads studying economics and finance. Aside from their roles at the Idea Center, they are sometimes TAs, and all the time music connoisseurs. They produce a weekly roundup of bit size news pieces. If you're interested in signing up for Nuggies (which you should be!) you can follow the link below.
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We dive into the fifth and final dialogue of Angrynomics and...alleviate our anger?
Thanks for listening everyone!!!
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We dive into the fourth dialogue of Angrynomics and....redistribute our anger amongst ourselves?
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It's part 1 of our long-awaited inaugural book club. It's a long one, so buckle up settle in, and grab your book. We're talking about Angrynomics.
In the episode, we mention a few resources. You can find the links below
Stephen Vukovits is a senior here at ND majoring in economics and is the co-president of the Federal Reserve and Fiscal Policy Challenge Club on campus.
Book Club Details
The first rule of Book Club is to TELL EVERYONE ABOUT BOOK CLUB
Emily ensures research projects move forward successfully alongside the leadership of research faculty. She works with partners to initiate research designs, collects and analyzes data for each project, and prepares results for future audiences. Emily earned her BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the LEO team full-time, she interned as one of LEO’s undergraduate research assistants.
Understanding returns to GED: paper 1 and paper 2
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Kirk Doran is the Henkels Family Collegiate Chair and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Doran's research focuses on issues in labor economics, innovation economics, and international migration, with a particular focus on human capital complementarities. His work has examined the implications of large migrations of top scientists on the productivity and knowledge generation of their peers. Recent work has focused on the role of externalities, collaboration, and geographic distance in knowledge production, the impact of top prizes on the intellectual content of their recipient's work, and the impact of highly skilled immigrants on firms which randomly receive them.
David Campbell is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame and the chairperson of the political science department. His most recent book is Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics (with John Green and Quin Monson). He is also the co-author (with Robert Putnam) of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, which has been described by the New York Times as intellectually powerful, by America as an instant classic and by the San Francisco Chronicle as the most successfully argued sociological study of American religion in more than half a century. American Grace has also received both the 2011 Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs and the Wilbur Award from the Religious Communicators Council for the best non-fiction book of 2010.
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
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Rüdiger Bachmann's academic career includes an assistant professorship at the University of Michigan, full professorships at the RWTH Aachen University and Frankfurt University, as well as visiting professorships at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and Boston University. Bachmann’s research area is macroeconomics, where he specializes in the macroeconomics of heterogeneous agents. He is also interested in the implications of uncertainty and expectation formation on macroeconomic outcomes. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Review of Economic Dynamics, Quantitative Economics, Economics Letters, and Economic Theory. At Notre Dame he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in macroeconomics.
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Mitchell Larson is a senior studying Economics and Applied & Computational Math & Statistics at the University of Notre Dame where he serves as co-President of the Federal Reserve and Fiscal Challenge Club. A lifelong interest in dysfunctional relationships led him to be interested in Congress, the most dysfunctional group of them all, and that dysfunction’s effect on fiscal policy.
Michael McElroy is a junior at the University of Notre Dame pursuing a degree in Economics, with a supplementary major in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics and a minor in the College of Arts and Letters Honors Program. He is an active member of the Federal Reserve and Fiscal Challenge Club.
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