tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128275802011-07-14T17:35:43.607-07:00U2IPERG -- the University of Illinois Political Economy Research Group -- is an association of University of Illinois faculty aimed at fostering international political economy research and related scholarly activities on a university-wide basis. Its goal is to bring together faculty from different disciplines and to facilitate exchange of ideas and information regarding political economy research and funding opportunities. This blog is an avenue of our electronic public engagement activities.benny06http://www.blogger.com/profile/02347306335676757537noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12827580.post-1163696544544380362006-11-16T08:48:00.000-08:002006-11-16T14:09:24.920-08:00

Jeremy Siegel is a finance professor at the Wharton School of Business who heads their Executive Education Securities Industry Institute. He was recently interviewed by the Knowledge@Wharton staff about his perceptions concerning the impact of last week's elections.Overall, he believes that market didn't take a nose dive because the technology stocks did well and tend to support Democratic

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The Tippie School of Business at the University of Iowa hosts a trading site called Iowa Electronic Markets (IEM). It is used for pedagogy to simulate what real markets do, and those not in academia can sign up for accounts and actually trade with real dollars.The prices are collected all day, up until 11:59pm. Thus, one sees the outcome of the Congressional races on November 7th, it is no

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In today's HBS Working Knowledge Newsletter, Martha Legace interviews HBS Assistant Professor Eric Werker about his recent research about FDI in South Africa after the fall of apartheid. Werker discovered that the FDI was around 2/3 less than other emerging markets, thus our conventional thinking may be challenged.Werker suggests that perhaps there were two economies, not just one emerging one.

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Today, we welcome a guest blogger, Brett Graham, who is giving u2IPERG readers a report on the latest seminar. Welcome Brett!On October 20th at UIUC College of Business, Professor Gerard Roland from UC, Berkeley gave a presentation entitled, "Electoral Rules and Government Spending in Parliamentary Democracies", sponsored by the newly formed interdisciplinary group, U2IPERG (University of

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On September 15th at UIUC's College of Business, Vanderbilt Professor Mara Faccio gave a presentation entitled, "Sudden Deaths: Taking Stock of Political Connections", sponsored by the newly formed interdisciplinary group, U2IPERG (University of Ilinois International Political Economy Group) and CIBER, to a full house on sunny Friday afternoon. (Photo Credit: Natayla Shipachova, UIUC Doctoral

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