Sarah Kreps, professor of government, discusses sanctions and Russia’s assault on Eastern Ukraine. 

“The Fed is at real risk of losing control of the inflation narrative and could be forced to tighten even more aggressively than it has signaled, raising the risk of a marked slowdown in growth in 2023,” says Eswar Prasad, professor of international trade policy and economics. Prasad is also quoted on Marketplace about President Biden requiring infrastructure bill materials to be made in the U.S. 

Eswar Prasad, senior professor of trade policy and professor of economics, told the British Parliament’s House of Lords Economic Affairs “Committee that the UK has an effective payments system and there is no strong consumer case for a British CBDC.” But he also noted that “one could still make the user case in terms of the CBDC catalyzing additional innovation”. 

“It’s too early to say,” says Jamein Cunningham, assistant professor of public policy. “But it’s nice to have numbers that at least, relative to this time last year, suggest it might be easing.” 

“It will be interesting to see what happens in the real wheat belt in North Dakota and Minnesota,” says Chris Barrett, professor of applied economics and policy. “They still have some time to decide what to plant. A deciding factor might be wheat prices shooting up.” 
 

Amanda Rodewald, professor of natural resources, says, “We can turn the dial and improve practices in ways that provide meaningful benefits to birds, but we also have to be realistic and not allow perfect to become the enemy of good.” 
 

Researchers will use cross-national, time-series data to identify domestic and international political conditions in which various forms of excessive and/or illegitimate violence are more likely to occur.

Today at 5:00! Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist, will give the annual Bartels World Affairs Lecture.

Marshall's work as a Laidlaw scholar incorporates research, leadership training, and a summer leadership-in-action experience in Norway.