By the Numbers

Kellogg Newsletter Fall 2006

By the NumbersIn the Economics and Econometrics Department at Notre Dame, the work of four Kellogg Faculty Fellows tackles some key issues in the developing world:free trade, exchange rates, environmental policy, and tax and monetary policy.

"If there is any unifying thing that we [in the Economics and Econometrics Department] do, it's to bring to bear state-of-the-art analytical techniques on social problems," explained Richard A. Jensen, Professor of Economics and Econometrics and the department's chair.

"Our approach is to analyze a social problem using the best available techniques so we can learn something about it, and something about the policies that might be used to address it, before we even think about taking a stand on that problem."