Contributing Writer: Novak He | May, 2022 In fall 2021, the world’s most indebted company——Chinese real estate company Evergrande missed its debt repayment deadline. This incident worsened the debt crisis of this debt giant, who …
EQ Vol.12: The Distributional Effects of QE: Free Silver or a Cross of Gold?
Contributing Writer: Zachary Heintz | May, 2022 In 1896, William Jennings Bryan, a former Nebraska congressman, gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that would win him the Democratic presidential nominations in both 1896 …
EQ Vol.12: Quantifying the Irrationality of the Middle Ground: Public Health’s Modern Battlefield
Why the integration of behavioral economic analysis in epidemiology is crucial to improving vaccine acceptance among the hesitant. Contributing Writer: Rohan Snah | May, 2022 “The purely economic man is indeed close to being a …
EQ Vol.12: Economic Misunderstanding Through Human Unconscious Bias
Contributing Writer: Max Levy | May, 2022 Recently, I read Factfulness by Hans Rosling, which tells of human progress and examines the overdramatic and misinformed worldview that most people embrace. Dr. Rosling, a Swedish physician, …
EQ Vol.12: Changing the Student Debt Crisis: America’s Plans
Contributing Writer: Emily Wang | May, 2022 In early October 2021, President Joe Biden proposed changes to the former Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), Total and Permanent Disability (TPD), and Borrower Defense programs, making it …
Three Women Speak to their Experience in the Field of Economics
Maia Scott | May, 2022 Gwen Eudey, Gwyn Pauley, and Corina Mommearts are all economists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and all of them are women. I spoke to each of them briefly to grasp …
The Impact of COVID-19 on Developing Nations
Dhruvi Singh Raghuwanshi | May 2022 COVID-19 has had a differentiated impact across nations. On a deeper analysis, it is evident that one of the biggest victims of the financial impact of the pandemic were …
COVID-19’s Impact on Small Businesses
Riley Maszk | December 2021 Never before have we seen such a dynamic shift in normalcy until the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. With the hardships in losing our loved ones, facing disconnect with …
EQ Vol.11: INTERVIEW with Professor David Johnson
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 …