All Else Equal
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Questions abound in this time of great uncertainty.
This podcast's goal is to bridge the gap between student inquiry and the world class expertise available from Notre Dame's economics and business faculty in real time.
Each podcast episode will focus on a student submitted question. Using students' questions as the vehicle for inquiry, we will find ND's leading experts on the subjects and have concise discussions with them regarding current issues.
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Episode 31: Sales & Trading, Info-tainment, and Roca News w/ Cole Folwell
May 02, 2022 16:24 - 36 minutes - 34 MBWe 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 newsletter. ...
Episode 30: Germany's Russian Gas Problem w/ Rudi Bachmann
April 12, 2022 18:42 - 39 minutes - 34.8 MBRudi 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
Episode 29: International Intervention in the Ukraine Crisis - Breaking Down Economic Sanctions w/Zach Stangebye
March 04, 2022 20:14 - 34 minutes - 30 MBAll 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 ori...
Episode 28: Accompaniment and learning to walk together w/Steve Reifenberg
June 30, 2021 19:06 - 29 minutes - 25.9 MBSteve 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 approac...
Episode 27: The economics of evictions and the effects of housing policy w/ Rob Collinson
May 24, 2021 18:26 - 32 minutes - 27.2 MBRob 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
Episode 26: We feel the need, the need for speed. High frequency trading w/ John Shim
April 30, 2021 15:05 - 45 minutes - 37.9 MBJohn 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 U...
Episode 25: The Federal Reserve's dual mandate and their impacts on wealth inequality w/Jeff Campbell
April 21, 2021 19:17 - 30 minutes - 26.6 MBJeff 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...
Episode 24: GameStop, order flow, and Bernie Madoff w/ Robert Battalio
April 09, 2021 18:46 - 30 minutes - 24.9 MBRobert 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 bet...
Episode 23: The good, the bad, and the ugly of economics w/ Jim Sullivan
March 28, 2021 20:44 - 39 minutes - 32.6 MBOn 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, Professo...
Episode 22: Unpacking the opioid crisis w/ Ethan Lieber
March 13, 2021 01:24 - 31 minutes - 31.4 MBEthan 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
Episode 21: To be (an economics major) or not to be w/Alison Levey
February 23, 2021 17:35 - 33 minutes - 27.5 MBAlison 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
Episode 20: GameStop, meme stocks, and wallstreetbets w/Tommy Pero and Spencer Koehl
February 12, 2021 18:30 - 39 minutes - 28.9 MBSpencer 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
Episode 19: Angrynomics part 4 w/ special guest John Winston
February 02, 2021 19:39 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBWe 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.
Episode 18: Angrynomics part 3 w/ special guest John Winston
February 02, 2021 19:05 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBWe dive into the fourth dialogue of Angrynomics and....redistribute our anger amongst ourselves? Music sampled from Kid Cudi - Just what I am.
Episode 17: Angrynomics part 2 w/ special guest John Winston
January 22, 2021 16:01 - 43 minutes - 40.7 MBWe dive into the third dialogue of Angrynomics and....get angry ourselves? Music sampled from Jay Electric - Exhibit A
Episode 16: Angrynomics part 1 w/ special guest John Winston
January 20, 2021 01:53 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBIt'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 Num...
Episode 15: Wrapping up the election, the semester, and introducing the book club w/ Stephen Vukovits
December 02, 2020 22:41 - 29 minutes - 28.9 MBStephen 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 the ...
Episode 14: A day in the life of a LEO research associate (including an existential crisis) w/ Emily Merola
November 14, 2020 02:31 - 34 minutes - 27.8 MBEmily 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: p...
Episode 13: Signaling, Human Capital, and Innovation w/ Kirk Doran
November 07, 2020 17:59 - 23 minutes - 22.4 MBKirk 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...
Episode 12: Discussing politics and religion in polite company w/ David Campbell
October 30, 2020 23:45 - 31 minutes - 25.2 MBDavid 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...
Episode 11: Discussing MMT and the National Debt w/ Rudi Bachmann
October 24, 2020 01:05 - 34 minutes - 28.8 MBRüdiger 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 macroeco...
Episode 10: Spilling the Tea on Fiscal Relief and Stimulus w/ Mitchell Larson and Michael McElroy
October 17, 2020 02:35 - 27 minutes - 22.7 MBMitchell 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 supplement...
Episode 9: Talking Shop - How Should We Teach Economics? w/ Mary Flannery
October 10, 2020 01:14 - 40 minutes - 35.9 MBPrior 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...
Episode 8: How LEO and Notre Dame are Eliminating Poverty in America w/ Heather Reynolds
October 03, 2020 14:03 - 36 minutes - 27.6 MBHeather 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 enterpri...
Episode 7: Understanding the Ideas Behind the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics w/ Lakshmi Iyer
September 26, 2020 01:11 - 41 minutes - 31.9 MBLakshmi Iyer is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary research fields are development economics and political economy, with a special emphasis on property rights and the distribution of political power within societies. Her research has examined many dimensions of the distribution of political power within emerging market countries, including the legacy of colonial rule, the division of authority between politicians and bureaucrats, and the determin...
Episode 6: What the Heck is Average Inflation Targeting? w/ Eric Sims
September 18, 2020 22:07 - 34 minutes - 27.9 MBEric Sims is a professor of economics at Notre Dame, where he has taught since 2009. He is a macroeconomist whose research focuses on business cycles and monetary and fiscal policies. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and several other scholarly journals. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and also serves ...
Episode 5: The Ethics of College Football and Amateurism w/ Brian Levey
September 11, 2020 18:48 - 32 minutes - 27.4 MBBrian Levey joined the Mendoza faculty in 2007 after a twenty-year legal career, most recently focused on building corporate ethics and compliance programs. He currently teaches the introductory undergraduate business law course, as well as several ethics classes in the undergraduate, graduate and executive programs. Levey is a recipient of the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, as well as the Master of Science in Accountancy Dincolo Outstanding Pro...
Episode 4: Consumer Behavior in the time of COVID-19 w/ Emily Garbinsky and Mitch Olsen
September 03, 2020 18:38 - 25 minutes - 22.6 MBEmily N. Garbinsky is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. As a consumer psychologist, she studies how and when money can increase happiness - finding that money can positively impact happiness, consumption enjoyment, and relationship satisfaction depending on how it is managed, saved, and spent. Her empirical approach includes primary data collection, such as lab and field experiments, as well as secondary data analysis of bank t...
Episode 3: Grading Notre Dame's Reopening w/ Chris Cronin
August 26, 2020 02:25 - 29 minutes - 21.8 MBChristopher C.W. Cronin is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health economics. His current projects focus on the impact of stay-at-home mandates during the covid-19 crisis, the relationship between health insurance and medical care demand, the determinants of health facility choice, and individuals' choices relating to obesity. He specializes in the estimation of dynamic microeconometric models. NBER Covid-19 Working Papers Chris' website Recent research on NPR Recent ...
Episode 2: Is the Stock Market Really that Different from the Main Street Economy w/ Colin Jones
August 22, 2020 19:04 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBColin Jones is an Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, specializing in applied investments. Prior to joining Mendoza, he was a Clinical Associate Professor of Finance at the University of South Carolina, where he served as director of the Carolina Finance Scholars Program, director of the Student Managed Investment Fund, and director of the Carolina Finance & Investment Association. He received the Alfred G. Smith Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016, and was named the Michael A....
Episode 1: Reopening Schools in the time of COVID-19 w/ Chloe Gibbs
August 12, 2020 00:31 - 34 minutes - 25.5 MBChloe Gibbs joined Notre Dame's economics department in 2015, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Professor Gibbs is interested in measuring the effects, both intended and unintended, of policies and programs targeted at disadvantaged children and families. Her recent research includes analyzing the impact of full-day kindergarten on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental methods, investigating th...
Episode 1: Reopening Schools in the Time of COVID-19 w/ Chloe Gibbs
August 12, 2020 00:31 - 34 minutes - 25.5 MBChloe Gibbs joined Notre Dame's economics department in 2015, where she is also a faculty affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Professor Gibbs is interested in measuring the effects, both intended and unintended, of policies and programs targeted at disadvantaged children and families. Her recent research includes analyzing the impact of full-day kindergarten on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental methods, investigating th...