UMSL|Economics

Career Milestone event! 20 (Prof. Speicher), 30 (Prof. Kridel, really 31), and 35 years (Prof. Winkler)🥳Congratulations!

UMSL ECON alum and part-time faculty member Tracie Edwards received the Department’s Alumni Award for her contributions to the Department of Economics at the Alumni Party on April 26th. Despite the massive rain, 40+ faculty, alums, and students attended and celebrated Tracie!

UMSL ECON BS/MA student Kaley Ware presented her cost-benefit analysis project, “ Should California Have Banned Red Dye 3?” at the UMSL Undergraduate Research Symposium on Friday, April 26th. She did this research in her class with Prof. Kosnik. Congrats Kaley!

The UMSL Economics Women in Economics (WIE) group attended the WIE Symposium hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Lots of knowledge gained plus in-person networking!

Findings reveal that productivity and capital income tax cuts shift aggregate supply more than demand. Additionally, this paper introduces a 'productivity multiplier' which can be applied to a range of alternative models.

This paper introduces an AS-AD framework into the Ramsey model, analyzing key supply-side economic issues. It quantifies the impacts of productivity, labor income tax rate, and capital income tax rate on macroeconomic variables and tax revenue.

Professor Gillman's recent work, titled "Supply-side Economics with AS-AD in Ramsey Dynamic General Equilibrium," has been published in Economic Analysis and Policy🥳 #EconTwitter sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵

Professor Gillman’s recent work titled “Identifying money and inflation expectation shocks to real oil prices” was also featured in SUERF Policy Brief! suerf.org/suerf-policy-b…

Prof. Gillman’s recent work was published in Energy Economics🥳 This study uncovers US monetary shocks' impact on real oil prices, reshaping energy and monetary policy perspectives. #EconTwitter authors.elsevier.com/a/1hn8YW3fcwFrs

UMSL economics graduate Barb Flowers talks ‘Barbie’ and the evolution of women in the workforce on NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money blogs.umsl.edu/news/2023/07/3…

See Professor @KosnikLea 's recent research featured in VoxEU! She and her co-author investigated what factor influences differences in productivity across economists as they age. #VoxEU cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Congratulations to Marcela Manjarrez (BS 1998), recipient of the UMSL Econ Alumni Award! Nearly 60 alumni,  graduate students and faculty attended the spring UMSL Econ alum party!

Huge thank you to UMSL Econ alums Tim Lathum (BS 2012), Derek Steiner (BS/MA 2016), and Hannah Drury (BS 2020) for sharing career advice with current students!

Marcela Manjarrez (BS 1998), now  CEO of M Strategic Communications Consulting, participated in UMSL Alumni Conversations | Ethics: A Foundation for Success at the Touhill. Thank you Marcela for sharing your insights and shedding such a positive light on UMSL Economics!

blogs.umsl.edu/news/2023/01/2… Proud of the work done by Karl Guenther, UMSL ECON MA graduate!

Huge congratulations from @umslecon to Marcela Manjarrez, BS 1998, who received a 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award from @umsl at last week’s Founder’s Celebration. Thank you for making us look so good! #UMSLproud blogs.umsl.edu/news/?p=95420

Professor Max Gillman, Friedrich A. Hayek Professor in Economic History, participated in the panel discussion “Importance of Investments-Production-Export Model for Developing Countries” as a panelist at the Istanbul summit in Turkey on September 29th.

UMSL Econ women’s soccer athlete Imogen Bennett with Prof. Anne Winkler (who Imogen selected to be honored at the pre-game event). Women in Economics (WIE) and Econ 5400 came out to support! UMSL beat SW Baptist, 2-1! @UMSLWSOC @UMSLAthletics #UMSLpride

Alum Alyssa Leibold (BS/MA 2021), Economist with the BLS in Dallas, returned to campus to give a seminar on BLS data and talk with the WIE group. Thank you Alyssa!