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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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