Episode 30: Germany's Russian Gas Problem w/ Rudi Bachmann

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 Music sampled from Big K.R.I.T. - King Pt. 4

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. -------------------------------------- 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! Music sampled from J. Cole - Let go my hand

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 Music sampled from Outkast - Elevators

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.  Music sampled from Mos Def - Speed Law

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 Music sampled from MF DOOM - Beef Rap

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 Music sampled from Saweetie - Tap In

Alison 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

We 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.

We dive into the fourth dialogue of Angrynomics and....redistribute our anger amongst ourselves? Music sampled from Kid Cudi - Just what I am.

It'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 Numbers Game: The Paradox of Household Income” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DU2IT8rl6c