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.  If you'd like to learn more about Roca news you can click the link to get started reading their...

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.  Rudi's Twitter VoxEu Article regarding the paper Music sampled from Big K.R.I.T. - King Pt. 4

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...

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...

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. Matt Desmond's book Evicted Music sampled from Outkast - Elevators

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...

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...

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...

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...

Ethan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Notre Dame. He is a prolific researcher on all things opioids and uses his vast understanding in both his undergraduate Principles of Economics class and his graduate-level Health Economics class.  Music sampled from D12- Purple Pills

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.  Music sampled from Nas - The World is Yours

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.  Nuggies Music sampled from Kanye West - Diamonds are Forever

We dive into the fifth and final dialogue of Angrynomics and...alleviate our anger? Thanks for listening everyone!!! Music sampled from Kanye West and Kid Cudi - Reborn.

We dive into the fourth dialogue of Angrynomics and....redistribute our anger amongst ourselves? Music sampled from Kid Cudi - Just what I am.

We dive into the third dialogue of Angrynomics and....get angry ourselves?  Music sampled from Jay Electric - Exhibit A

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 Gentzkow and Shapiro (2010) “What Drives Media Slant?” - https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/biasmeas.pdf Jonathan Haidt “Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Righteous_Mind Russ Roberts “The...

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 We're reading Angrynomics by Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan We will have on some special guests to dive into the book Over the next 9-10 weeks we will be releasing episodes relating to the 5 parts of the book Episode 1 will cover the first two parts of...

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. LEO's website Emily's website Emily's email Understanding returns to GED:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prior to her appointment as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Mary served as the Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Economics Department.  Her current research interests are economics pedagogy and the telecommunications industry.  Dean Flannery received her B.A. and M.A in Economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1978 and 1979 respectively and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland in 1996. Mary's faculty page Raj Chetty's “Using Big Data to Solve...

Heather Reynolds is the Managing Director for the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame. LEO aims to identify the innovative, effective and scalable programs that help people move out of poverty. Reynolds drives LEO's strategic plan, which seeks to influence poverty policy and support the culture of evaluation among service providers to the poor nationwide. Reynolds has extensive experience in strategic planning, fundraising, and social...