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Economics and Careers Posted by: halvormj / April 20, 2018 Image: Cameron Emerson April 20, 2018 Interested in a future job at a major tech company? Come and meet a Pacific Lutheran University graduate who successfully followed that career path. Cameron Emerson ’08 graduated from PLU with a degree in Economics. These days the Oregon native works out of Chicago as the Midwest manager of Google’s Cloud — and he’s returning to campus to talk about his career, share his experiences at one of the

Summer Internships: Economics Posted by: vcraker / September 7, 2022 September 7, 2022 Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study. Through The Alumni & Student Connections

, for which psychologist Daniel Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics. It proposes that people aren’t always trying to maximize benefits, but are paying attention to a benchmark. In this case, the benchmark is par. “Do golfers pay attention to par? Yes, they sit in it,” Reiman said. This is in contrast to neoclassical economic theory that says that people are always trying to better their situation given the constraints they face. The Economics of Golf was split into two sections in order

Economics Alum Receives Award Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 24, 2019 June 24, 2019 By Pacific Lutheran UniversityTACOMA - Michael Spiedel, PLU alum in Economics and Hispanic Studies, was announced as one of Idaho Business Review's “Forty Under Forty” award recipients.Michael combined his interest in Spain and Economics by writing his economics capstone on the impact of trade policies of Francisco Franco in Spain. He found the impacts of severely restricting international trade to be

May 16, 2008 Students participate in economics conference Looking at the cluster of PLU students making last-minute preparations before a mock meeting of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Mark Gould ’91 said it was at a conference much like this where he got his start 17 years ago at the Federal Reserve Bank.“I think they noted they were looking for people,” Gould said during a break at the Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference in May. “I literally graduated on a Sunday and

PLU Alum Visits Department of Economics Posted by: Marcom Web Team / April 15, 2019 April 15, 2019 By Jeannette ShimkoCommunications Coordinator/Administrative AssistantTACOMA Wash - Hiring in Finance: The Employer's Perspective From PLU to World of Finance Dr. Micheal Manser – PLU ECON Grad ’10 Now Economist @Remitly Thursday April 18, 2019 @6:30 p.m. Xavier 201 Dr. Michael Manser is currently an Economist in charge of global pricing at Remitly, one of the fastest growing FinTech startups in

Summer Internship: Economics major finds family environment with global company Posted by: tpotts / October 28, 2022 October 28, 2022 Travis McDaneld ’23 is entering his fourth year at PLU as an economics major, minoring in data science. When he enrolled at PLU, he had every intention of majoring in business, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study

, although he admits to not having any idea about what he wanted to do after graduation. But when he took a microeconomics class, he says it all clicked, and he knew what he wanted to study. Through The Alumni & Student Connections Economics Mentoring Program, McDaneld spent his summer interning with Russell Investments as a data analyst with the global data operations team. Russell Investments is a global investment manager operating in 31 countries. McDaneld shares with us his experience interning with

PLU Senior to Present Economics Capstone at National Conference Posted by: Sandy Dunham / March 24, 2015 Image: Helen “Nellie” Moran ’15 (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 24, 2015 By Taylor Lunka '15PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, Wash. (March 24, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University senior Helen “Nellie” Moran has been chosen out of 3,700 submissions to present her Economics Capstone at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 16-18.Moran, a double major in Economics

every student that she works with, but she is also hilarious!” Studying Healthcare Access Halvorson: “Dr. Travis, can you discuss the other type of research that you do? Or how this research fits into your teaching at PLU?” Travis: “My research has generally focused the economics of health care access. I’ve published on how physician payment and insurance structures have led to differential access for patients. One of these papers focused on prenatal care and another on inpatient psychiatric care