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Justin Wolfers and coauthors publish in SSRN: "In-group bias in financial markets"

Dec 24, 2016

A paper by Sima Jannati (University of Miami), Alok Kumar (University of Miami), Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi (University of Mannheim), and Justin Wolfers was published in SSRN on December 24, 2016. The paper is entitled: "In-group bias in financial...

Barr pens op-ed for Fortune: “Trump’s dismantling of Dodd-Frank would be 2008 all over again”

Dec 21, 2016

President-elect Donald Trump and treasury secretary nominee Steven Munchin have both threatened to “dismantle” or “kill” aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. In a December 8 op-ed for Fortune, Michael...

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Engines for growth: U-M faculty, students support Detroit entrepreneurs of color

Dec 19, 2016

While small businesses have always been a critical engine of growth for urban economies, new business startups have slowed nationwide in the wake of the Great Recession. In the city of Detroit, expanding small businesses means confronting the...

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Microfinance breakthrough: Dean Yang uses fingerprints to boost microlending in Malawi

Dec 16, 2016

Eight years ago, development economist Dean Yang spent a week in Malawi visiting microfinance institutions, the banks and credit unions that provide financial services to some of the world's most vulnerable citizens. Yang, who works to combat...

Whitman on infrastructure spending and Pax Americana in Freep, Conversation op-eds

Dec 14, 2016

In a December 13th Detroit Free Press op-ed, “Where will public goods stand in Trump’s administration?”, Marina v.N. Whitman considers the importance of public goods to President-elect Trump’s administration.Whitman explains, “Everybody’s ‘market...

Alan Deardorff in Reuters: U.S.-China trade tensions could hurt U.S businesses

Dec 13, 2016

A December 13 article from Reuters, “Trump’s tough trade talk makes U.S. firms fear China retribution,” features quotes from a number of foreign policy experts, including Professor Alan Deardorff of the Ford School. According to the authors Nick...

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Wolfers on market responses to the ebb and flow of Presidential candidate fortunes

Dec 8, 2016

As Trump gained strength on election night, the prices of Clinton securities on political betting markets fell sharply. By midnight, stock market futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Index had fallen by 4 percent. Both movements reflected what...

In Bloomberg, Stevenson writes “manly men” need to get back to work, in “girly jobs”

Dec 7, 2016

More men should take service jobs in occupations traditionally dominated by women, writes Betsey Stevenson in her most recent Bloomberg View column: “Manly Men Need to Do More Girly Jobs” Stevenson, a leading labor economist and former chief...

Dean Yang discusses new Mozambique intervention for orphans and vulnerable children

Dec 2, 2016

Dean Yang is the feature of a November 30 interview with Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access (AMA) at the University of California, Davis. The “Q&A with Professor Dean Yang” centers on an evaluation Yang is conducting of a...

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Wolfers on “Trump and Carrier: How a modern economy is like a parking garage.”

Dec 2, 2016

Justin Wolfers offers a tutorial on the contempoary labor market in his latest New York Times Upshot column: “Trump and Carrier: How a modern economy is like a parking garage.” Wolfers’ piece comes after president-elect Donald Trump’s victory lap...

Barr, a key architect of Dodd-Frank, pens CNBC op-ed on Trump's financial plan

Nov 15, 2016

Michael S. Barr’s op-ed, “Why Trump’s financial plan is so dangerous,” was published on November 14 by CNBC.Barr worries that the Trump Administration will reverse the investor and consumer protections strengthened under President Obama, as well as...

Deardorff quoted in CNN Money story discussing President-elect's tariff plan

Nov 14, 2016

Throughout his campaign, President-elect Donald J. Trump promised to bring back jobs to the U.S. Trump plans to do this by applying, or at least threatening to use, tariffs on imported goods from China, Mexico, and other countries that have taken...

Yang on Trump immigration policies and implications for migration to the U.S.

Nov 11, 2016

Dean Yang is quoted in Max Ehrenfreund’s November 10 article for the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, “One of Trump’s policies could spark a boom in immigration from Mexico.”Ehrenfreund speculates on the effect President-elect Donald Trump’s economic...

"To me, it is immoral to deny children a better education" - Dynarski featured in NYT

Nov 4, 2016

David Leonhardt’s November 4 New York Times op-ed, “Schools that work,” features charter school research and commentary by Susan Dynarski, co-director of the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative. The op-ed concerns a controversial ballot...

Wolfers challenges students, colleagues to economics pumpkin carving contest

Nov 2, 2016

On October 24, Justin Wolfers challenged fellow economists and Ford School students to an economics pumpkin carving competition. In hopes that this will become an ongoing tradition, we’re documenting entries from the 2016 #EconoPumpkin contest...

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Chamberlin quoted in Michigan reporters’ investigation of Detroit school board candidates

Oct 25, 2016

“You want people who are capable of understanding pretty big numbers, and understanding what the tradeoffs are, what’s a good risk and what’s not," says John Chamberlin of a recent investigation of Detroit school board candidates that found that...

Media on Wolfers' research: “What financial markets think of the 2016 election”

Oct 25, 2016

According to most polls, public opinion shifted in marked favor of a Clinton presidency during the first Presidential debate of 2016, which took place on September 26. Justin Wolfers, who watched the debate while observing the real-time reactions of...

Yes to free trade, but improve trade adjustment assistance, says Whitman in The Conversation

Oct 25, 2016

"If there’s one thing that nearly all economists agree on, it’s that getting rid of trade restrictions is generally good for a country’s economy," says Marina v.N. Whitman in her October 24 piece for The Conversation, “Want to help free trade’s...

Wolfers for Brookings: “What do financial markets think of the 2016 election?”

Oct 20, 2016

The Brookings Institution published a paper by Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz on October 20: “What do financial markets think of the 2016 election?”ABSTRACTOn September 26, 2016, Hillary Clinton was regarded by post-debate polls to have defeated...

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Whitman in Detroit Free Press, “How to make trade policies work for all Americans”

Oct 3, 2016

In an October 2 Detroit Free Press op-ed, Marina v.N. Whitman outlines how trade policies can work for all Americans. Addressing polling data and the policy positions of both presidential candidates against free trade agreements, Professor...

Look to prediction markets for better political insight, says Wolfers in NYT Upshot

Sep 28, 2016

In his most recent column for the New York Times’ Upshot, Justin Wolfers explains how and why political prediction markets may provide more unbiased assessments of presidential debate performances this fall than pundits. Wolfers writes about two...

Alan Deardorff speaks with CNN Money about Trump’s position on NAFTA

Sep 28, 2016

Following the first presidential debate on Monday evening, Professor Alan Deardorff spoke with CNN Money writer Patrick Gillespie about Trump’s characterization of NAFTA.Trump has repeatedly called NAFTA a “terrible deal” that is responsible for the...

Michigan Journal of Public Affairs publishes 2016 volume on constitutional rights, freedoms

Sep 20, 2016

The editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs (MJPA) is pleased to announce the 2016 edition and thirteenth volume of the student-run journal of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.This year’s call for papers established the...

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In New York Times, Susan Dynarski welcomes FAFSA changes, urges more reforms

Sep 16, 2016

Susan Dynarski, a longtime advocate for simplifying the FAFSA (the financial aid application students and their families must submit for college), welcomes new changes and suggests future reforms in this Sunday's New York Times “Economic...

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Internship field report, Rhonda Bishop @ Detroit Creative Corridor Center, Michigan

Sep 13, 2016

Rhonda Bishop (MPP ) offers this field report from her summer 2016 internship at the Detroit Creative Corridor Center in Detroit, Michigan. The space is a fun, eclectic mix of industrial décor and bold patterns. Bright posters adorn the walls...

G20 decision could be the tipping point for free trade writes Deardorff in The Conversation

Sep 6, 2016

Alan Deardorff’s “Decision from G20 leaders could prove the tipping point for free trade,” published by The Conversation and syndicated by the Associated Press, encourages G20 leaders to push for the adoption of the World Trade Organization’s Trade...

CNBC interviews Susan M. Collins on Fed rate hike debate, Live @ Jackson Hole

Aug 26, 2016

CNBC’s Steve Liesman interviewed Susan M. Collins for the Live @ Jackson Hole, Wyo., segment, “Debating Fed rate hikes.”Collins and Carmen Reinhart (Kennedy School) spoke with Leisman about Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s policy speech, and...

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Detroit Free Press Editorial Board asks, “Lansing, are you listening to Michigan cities?”

Aug 25, 2016

The Detroit Free Press Editorial Board asks, “Lansing, are you listening to Michigan cities?” The piece draws attention to the latest Michigan Public Policy Survey on the fiscal health of the state’s local governments. The University of...

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Michigan Radio's "Stateside" highlights CLOSUP's latest, and troubling, fiscal health findings

Aug 24, 2016

Michigan Radio’s Cynthia Canty interviews Tom Ivacko (MPP ’93), CLOSUP program administrator, for the segment “Declining fiscal health “an early warning sign” for local governments, report says.” The program focuses on CLOSUP's latest Michigan...

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Hausman talks “fugitive methane” and incentivizing natural gas utilities to reduce it

Aug 23, 2016

Cynthia Canty, host of Michigan Radio’s “Stateside,” interviews Catherine Hausman for a program on “fugitive methane,” or methane gas leaks, in the natural gas distribution industry. “The natural gas industry tells us that using natural gas is...