Seminar - Haluk Gedikoglu

The Economics Department invites you to our next seminar on Friday, November 7th (3:30 room 203).  Haluk Gedikoglu (Lincoln University), will present "Variation of Consumer Preferences Between Domestic and Imported Food: The Case of Artisan Cheese".

“Raising the Minimum Wage: A Conversation with Economists”

Faculty from the Economics Department at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, will lead a discussion on the potential benefits and challenges of raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. The minimum wage increase will be a non-binding referendum on all ballots within La Crosse County.

Monday November 3, 2014

6:00 PM

1400 Centennial Hall

Open to the public.

Sponsored by: The Economics Department at UW - La Crosse

Registration and attendance are free, but we ask you to complete this form: https://uwlacrosse.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0CA0RxLzTixaARv.

Seminar - Tristan Coughlin

The Economics Department invites you to our next seminar on Friday, October 24th (3:30 room 203).  Tristan Coughlin (Augustana College), a UW-L alum, will present "A Decomposition of the Causes of Intergenerational Income Transmission."

Seminar: Sanjukta Roy

Dr. Sanjukta Roy will present on Friday, Nov 15 at 3:30 in room 203. The title of the paper is "Risk Factors for Domestic violence: an empirical analysis for Indian States."

Seminar: Professor Laura Middlesworth

The next seminar in the Economics Department Seminar Series will be this Friday, October 25th, at 3:30 in room 122. Dr. Laura Middlesworth (UW Eau Claire) will present "Now-casting Local Economic Indicators Using Mixed-Frequency Data." Please invite your students in upper level classes.

Shut Down.

Estimates of the consequences of the shut down.

The Fed Surprise

As an exercise for the macro student, watch this video starting around minute 30. The video is a brief Q&A with Narayana Kocherlakota, the President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.

Then make a prediction for monetary policy going forward.
A) The Fed Tapers or
B) The Fed Waits.

Then read what happened here.

Surprised?