Economics Masters Student Association - EMSA

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.

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Wookienomics Like the Force, economics binds the galaxy together

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

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

Europe has a deal with Turkey, but migrants will keep coming Refugees' misery still drives them to leave

Japan’s buzzword of the year means “an explosive shopping spree by the Chinese” Another popular one this year means “We will not tolerate Abe’s politics."

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.”

The American Dual Economy | Institute for New Economic Thinking Race, Globalization and the Politics of Exclusion

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!

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.

The Folly of Empire 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…

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.

The Trouble With Interest Rates 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.

The Global Gender Gap Report in numbers 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.

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.

A Hard Look at a Soft Global Economy 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.

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).

What a carry on Monetary policy could drive currency volatility