Employment in the music and motion-picture industries has expanded. The new jobs pay less than when gatekeepers ruled the earth, but Waldfogel found that as a whole, the industry is producing an ever-increasing number of well-reviewed movies and albums.

The University of Minnesota Department of Economics has historically been one of the top in the world, producing nine Nobel Prize-winning faculty and alumni along the way. Launched in 2010, the Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute was founded as a renewed commitment to supporting synergy in economic research, policy influence, and the communication channels required to solve real-world challenges.

President Donald Trump and other political leaders have touted the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin as good for the local economy, but critics point out that this is one of the largest subsidy packages offered to a foreign business by a state government. Hear from University of Minnesota economist Art Rolnick.

University of Minnesota economist Manuel Amador studies what causes less-developed countries to pile on more debt than they can repay, what happens next, and the stakes the rest of the world have in the financial fitness of relatively small national economies.

“This is not a system that seems willing to take short-term sacrifices for long-term gains,” said VV Chari. At a time when economic recovery from the Great Recession is complete, unemployment is low and the country is not involved in a major military action, traditional strategy has been to bring the national debt down, he noted.

Ellen McGrattan investigates the impact of intangible assets on aggregate and industry-level U.S. data.

Join us on November 8 to honor distinguished economist and former faculty member Professor Anne O. Krueger. She will give a public talk, followed by the presentation of an honorary degree.

Anmol Bhandari, Serdar Birinci, Ellen McGrattan, and Kurt Gerrard See study the reliability of survey data for research on pass-through businesses activities.

New research by Manuel Amador and Christopher Phelan explores a continuous-time model of sovereign debt.