Contributing Writer: Tye Rubin | May, 2021 David Johnson is a professor of economics and a senior lecturer at UW-Madison and has built a reputable career in environmental economics and teaching. Professor Johnson has worked …
Geographic Variation in Treatment and Cost in Healthcare
Kelly Zhang | April 2021 It would seem ideal for all the world to have a single price for all people when they have health issues. However, that may never happen because there are many …
EQ Vol.10: Exchange Rate Misalignment – For Some a Strategy, for Others a Downfall
Contributing Writer: Abby Fehler | May, 2020 The economies of developing countries face many interesting problems, many of which involve trade. For the leaders of developing nations, economic stability is crucial to maintaining political stability. …
EQ Vol.10: Los Angeles Metro Rails– An Asset or a Liability?
Contributing Writer: Fatima Ali | May, 2020 Throughout the mid-1990s to the early 2000s, Los Angeles experienced a massive population growth, creating traffic congestion in the L.A. highway system. Tis provided an incentive for lawmakers …
Americans Need an Insurance Mandate, They Just Don’t Know It Yet
| Ritika Punathil | May 18, 2020 | To understand whether the U.S. health insurance market is experiencing market failure, statistic, economic, and philosophical theory are all needed. The real challenge is determining what market …
The Digital Dump: Navigating China’s Informal Market of Electronic Waste
| Timmy Davenport | March 29, 2020 | Unsustainable waste production in the modern global context is a crisis of pandemic proportions. E-waste is a particular type of waste that covers digital devices such as …
The EU-UK Signaling Game
| Diquan Xian | May 9, 2019 | Since 2017 March, the United Kingdom has engaged in official withdrawal from the European Union so that it can preserve its policy-making authority especially over the movements …
The Effects of the Minimum Wage: A Short Survey for the Diligent Voter
| Zach Swaziek | May 9, 2019 | The minimum wage has been the focus of many public policy discussions recently. Tony Evers, the newly elected Governor of Wisconsin, announced in February that his budget …
A Land Tax: A Model for Effective Fiscal Policy
| Austin Schlueter | April 22, 2019 | In 1978, in his book Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Freidman espoused support for a new tax by uttering “the least bad tax is the property tax on …
Asymmetric Information and Test Optional College Admissions Policies
| Chrissy Ramakrishnan | December 18th, 2018 | Issues surrounding the use of standardized test scores for college admission have become particularly salient over the past decade. Many students view them as unfairly narrow assessments …