All Else Equal

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. 

Rudi's Twitter

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.

Zach's google scholar page

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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.

Matt Desmond's book Evicted

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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.

John's paper on the High-Frequency Arm's Race was published in one of the best economics journals in the world. 

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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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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. 

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