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?

Want to find out what your income says about you?

Check out the Upshot of Income at Marketplace.org.

Seminar: Professor Claude Diebolt

The first seminar of the 2013-14 academic year is scheduled for Tuesday, September 24th at 4:00 pm in room 122 Wimberly Hall. Professor Claude Diebolt (University of Strasbourg) will present "Where do students go? Allocation of talents and career paths in the long run." Upper division students are encouraged to attend.