Six Economics majors were invited to be referees for Issues in Political Economy, a peer reviewed undergraduate journal. This experience will allow Rachel Metzger, Amber Wolbeck, Joseph Bottrell, Fariha Rahman, Keegan Reisweig, and Tanner McCarty the opportunity to hone their own research skills and to be exposed to work from students of the best colleges and universities in the country. […]
The final Fall Honors Lecture will feature the War on Drugs Wednesday, Nov. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Center for Business 109. Dr. Oscar Flores, professor of Economics, will talk on “Of Zs and Barbies, Drugs and Lords: An Assessment of the War on Drugs.” The lecture is free and open to the public.
Oscar Flores, Economics, had the paper “The unemployment-vacancy relationship in a local labor market” accepted for publication in the journal The Empirical Economic Letters. In this paper, Flores identifies a decrease in structural and frictional unemployment in the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Statistical Area from 1992 to 2001. Structural unemployment occurs due to a mismatch between the skills companies want and those […]
The University Honors Program invites everyone to the Fall 2010 lecture series. The schedule for the lectures are as follows: September 23 Denise Gorsline Dean of the MSUM University College “Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, and Jersey Shore; What in the World do these have to do with Your Future?” 7:30 p.m. CB 109
The following 2010 Economics graduates have committed to the following graduate schools: Jena Thompson – Purdue University, full tuition and scholarship; Clay Kramer – University of Illinois, full tuition and scholarship; Mark Frenzel – Claremont Graduate School, scholarship; Alex Kangas – University of Utah; and James Teigland – William Mitchell Law School. Student Isaac Thomas will complete an internship in China with Shineray Motorcycyles, the first international internship completed by an MSUM student.