Heller-Hurwicz Office Hours
By Heller Hurwicz
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Image by Heller Hurwicz
Category: Education
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 4
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 47
Description
Welcome to Heller-Hurwicz Office Hours, a podcast featuring University of Minnesota economists and their research. In the podcast we’ll explore economic topics that impact our daily lives and discuss economic research aimed at improving our understanding of major societal challenges. We’ll highlight how careful economic research can inform policy decisions.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
S4E3: The Monopolies Behind the Housing Crisis: Jim Schmitz on Competition, Innovation, and Affordability
|
Jun 26, 2026 |
|
S4E2: Neel Kashkari on inflation, uncertainty, and the economic outlook
|
Jun 19, 2026 |
|
S4E1: After the Sledgehammer: Measuring the Impact of Trump's Trade Agenda
|
Jun 12, 2026 |
|
LECTURE: HHEI Spring 2026 Roundtable: Debt, Demographics, and the Future of U.S. Fiscal Sustainability
|
Jun 11, 2026 |
|
S3E10: Drivers of Falling Fertility: Professor Michèle Tertilt on What Economic Analysis Reveals
|
Dec 13, 2025 |
|
LECTURE: Central Bank independence: Critical for economic growth and stability?
|
Dec 09, 2025 |
|
S3E9: Automation, Adaptation, and Employment: Economist Kyle Herkenhoff on AI’s Labor Market Impact
|
Nov 21, 2025 |
|
S3E8: Prevention, Policy, and Political Deadlock: Economic Lessons from the Individual Market
|
Oct 28, 2025 |
|
S3E7: Plucking the Global Goose: Measuring Tariff Exposure in Trump's Trade War
|
Oct 14, 2025 |
|
S3E6: America’s Rising Debt: Demographics, Risk, and the Future of Fiscal Sustainability
|
Oct 02, 2025 |
|
LECTURE: Fair Shares: Exploring the Role of Wealth Taxes in Modern Economies
|
Sep 30, 2025 |
|
S3E5: America’s Climate U-Turn: Bob Litterman on Economic Risks in a Critical Time
|
Sep 08, 2025 |
|
S3E4: The Trade War between the U.S. and China: What’s at stake in the decoupling
|
Jun 04, 2025 |
|
S3E3: Inflation, tariffs, and lessons learned (and relearned) from history
|
Jun 03, 2025 |
|
S3E2: Checks, Balances, and Political Independence: President Trump and the Federal Reserve Bank
|
May 28, 2025 |
|
S3E1: The End of the Free Trade Era: Trump’s Sledgehammer approach to constructing a new economic order
|
May 27, 2025 |
|
LECTURE: Transmission of Monetary Policy and the U.S. Economic Outlook
|
Apr 25, 2025 |
|
LECTURE: Taxes, Tariffs, and Trade: Economic Policy in the Once and Future Administration
|
Dec 04, 2024 |
|
LECTURE: Who Cheats on Taxes? Understanding the U.S. Tax Gap
|
Sep 30, 2024 |
|
S2E10: Pricing the Risk of Climate Change: The Role of Incentives in Reducing Carbon Emissions
|
Jun 05, 2024 |
|
S2E9: One size does not fit all: Optimal subsidies for Medicare Advantage
|
May 22, 2024 |
|
S2E8: Trust in Government and Central Bankers: The Probability of a Bad Reputation
|
May 15, 2024 |
|
LECTURE: How employers are using market power to underpay workers: The new antitrust merger guidelines' take on labor markets
|
May 10, 2024 |
|
S2E7: The tax gap: How do we measure it, and what does it mean?
|
May 08, 2024 |
|
S2E6: Tax and Transfer Progressivity at the U.S. State Level, an Investigation
|
May 01, 2024 |
|
S2E5: When parents shouldn’t work: cash assistance and work incentives
|
Apr 24, 2024 |
|
S2E4: The game of monopsony: How the new DOJ/FTC merger guidelines strengthen worker power
|
Apr 17, 2024 |
|
S2E3: The path to a paycheck: When and where the Black-white & male-female pay gaps starts
|
Apr 10, 2024 |
|
S2E1: Are we taxing people fairly? Tax progressivity and redistribution since 1980
|
Apr 03, 2024 |
|
S2E2: A story of poor countries and rich countries: Where white collar workers came from
|
Apr 03, 2024 |
|
LECTURE: Climate Policy in Economics with Per Krusell
|
Feb 21, 2024 |
|
LECTURE: Does the Fed Need to Cause a Recession to Reduce Inflation?
|
Jan 24, 2024 |
|
Kjetil Storesletten on China's Economic Transformation
|
Jul 05, 2023 |
|
Fatih Guvenen on a Wealth Tax
|
Jun 28, 2023 |
|
Mariacristina De Nardi on the Economic Puzzle of Aging
|
Jun 21, 2023 |
|
Art Rolnick on Early Childhood Education
|
Jun 14, 2023 |
|
Joseph Mullins on Bargaining and Negotiating Wages
|
Jun 07, 2023 |
|
Hannes Malmberg on the Aging Global Population
|
May 31, 2023 |
|
LECTURE: U.S. Debt Ceiling: Reining in the Leviathan or Mutually Assured Destruction?
|
May 25, 2023 |
|
Gary Stern on the Banking Crisis
|
May 24, 2023 |
|
Manuel Amador & Christopher Phelan on Sovereign Debt
|
May 17, 2023 |
|
Fatih Guvenen on Income Inequality
|
May 10, 2023 |
|
Kyle Herkenhoff on Monopsony and Labor Market Concentration
|
May 03, 2023 |
|
Tim Kehoe on International Trade
|
Apr 26, 2023 |
|
Anusha Nath on the Minimum Wage
|
Apr 19, 2023 |
|
V.V. Chari on the Role of Economists in Today's World
|
Apr 17, 2023 |
|
LECTURE: Here we go again? Silicon Valley Bank and the current banking crisis
|
Apr 06, 2023 |