Economics Masters Student Association - EMSA

04/07/2016

We are pleased to announce that we are recruiting for 2016-2017 EMSA board , including 3 key positions as follows:

* President (1 opening)

* Vice Presidents (2 openings)

If you are interested in joining EMSA Board, please fill out this application form: https://win.wisc.edu/form/start/99080.

12/22/2015

Like the Force, economics binds the galaxy together

12/05/2015

The Russian president’s bold moves have had costly repercussions for his country without making real advances against ISIS.

12/02/2015

No new beginnings
Perhaps the biggest problem refugees face in Turkey is not lack of benefits, but the inability to integrate.

Refugees' misery still drives them to leave

12/02/2015

Another popular one this year means “We will not tolerate Abe’s politics."

11/30/2015

As a campaigning politician said a decade ago, “We shouldn’t have two different economies in America: one for people who are set for life, they know their kids and their grand-kids are going to be just fine; and then one for most Americans, people who live paycheck to paycheck.”

Race, Globalization and the Politics of Exclusion

11/30/2015

Hey Guys!

This is a friendly reminder about tomorrow's Bates White information session. There will be a brief presentation on the Econometric Consultant positions at Bates White followed by a Case Interview Workshop

Where: Social Science 8417
When: 5-7pm on Dec, 1st

Food and beverage will be provided!
Hope to see you all!

11/29/2015

Yet this narrative is a myth. There was no glorious rise. Imperial power was never unambiguously successful. In its modern incarnation, the British Empire was only ever haltingly successful, especially given the vast and far-flung territorial possessions that constituted it from the 1830s to the 1930s. And just because the British defeated mutinies, broke strikes, and suppressed political dissent, historians should not assume that they secured unproblematic social and political order.

When historians tell the story of the British Empire, they normally reach for grand narratives that follow a rise-and-fall trajectory, stretching from initial glory to eventual defeat. Yet this narrative is a myth. There was no glorious rise. From the beginning, the British Empire was in constant tr…

11/28/2015

What Taylor and his ilk fail to understand is that the reason interest rates are wrong has little to do with the policies put in place by central bankers and everything to do with the situation that policymakers confront.

Conservative economists are wrong to accuse central banks of keeping interest rates unnaturally low. On the contrary, interest rates are higher than they should be, and central banks are doing the best they can in a difficult situation.

11/25/2015

With a decade of data, this year's edition of the Global Gender Gap Report – first published in 2006 – shows that while the world has made progress overall, stubborn inequalities remain. Here are some eye-catching facts and figures from the report.

11/24/2015

Even the one factor that has effectively increased disposable incomes and augmented demand – sharply declining commodity prices, particularly for fossil fuels – is ultimately problematic. Indeed, for commodity-exporting countries, the fall in prices is generating fiscal and economic headwinds of varying intensity.

The global economy is settling into a slow-growth rut, steered there by policymakers’ inability or unwillingness to address major impediments at a global level. The question is whether an honest assessment of the impediments to economic performance worldwide will spur policymakers into action.

11/23/2015

In short, currency risk could become a big source of turbulence in financial markets, as it was in the late 1990s (the Asian crisis) or the early 1990s (when the European Union’s Exchange Rate Mechanism broke apart).

Monetary policy could drive currency volatility