In a global business environment, it’s important that students have some understanding of different cultures. Therefore, the Kelley School wants to send the maximum number of their students abroad. Of course, not all students can spend a semester or year overseas due to financial or curriculum constraints. Thus, for more than a decade the Kelley… Read more »
Faculty
Faculty Spotlight: Michael Rauh
Michael Rauh will never forget when he first arrived on campus in 2005 to join the BEPP faculty. “The faculty had decided to protest en masse against the IU President [at the time]. Hundreds of professors met in the IU Auditorium to speak out against him,” says Rauh. “While this was going on, a tornado… Read more »
New Faculty: Jennifer Rice
Raised on a farm and a self-proclaimed “farm kid,” Jennifer Rice, the youngest of eight children, showed pigs and cows in 4-H in North Manchester, Indiana. She received her undergraduate degree from Manchester College where she played golf and basketball. “I played in a basketball tournament in Beijing, China, on an Indiana high-school all-star team,”… Read more »
Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Butters
Before beginning graduate school, Andrew Butters worked as an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “I feel fortunate to have gotten that opportunity,” says Butters, who worked on the inflation and international memos for the Federal Open Market Committee meetings. He also helped create the National Financial Conditions Index. “I got to… Read more »
New Faculty: Jia Xiang
You never know how life will turn out. Just ask Jia Xiang, who once majored in film directing. “I wrote my script and produced my own little movie!” says Xiang, who grew up in Sichuan Province, China, an area famous for its spicy food and pandas. Midway through her studies, however, she pivoted and decided… Read more »
BEPP 2022 Letter from the Chair
Dear BEPP Community, I am thrilled to write to you again as a kick-off and welcome to our annual department newsletter and blog! The BEPP department consists of high-caliber economists working within a top business school. As such, our primary purpose is to bring the rigor and critical thinking inherent in economic modeling and… Read more »
Vietnam Initiative: A Global Knowledge Network
The Vietnam Initiative (VNi) is a global network for research and training in development policy in Vietnam. Founded in 2010 by IU’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Professor Tran Ngoc Anh, the VNi is a large group of independent scholars, who organize regular seminars and conferences in Vietnam. Andreas Hauskrecht, Clinical Professor of… Read more »
Turkish Initiative: Offering Projects & Programs
About five years ago, the President of IU, the Dean of the Kelley School, and the Associate Dean of Kelley visited Turkey to see what opportunities might exist for a collaboration. In 2017, Kerem Cakirer, BEPP senior lecturer, began working with the Turkish Initiative, serving as director. The goal of the Turkish Initiative is to… Read more »
IU Welcomes Severin Borenstein as Featured Speaker for the Bonser Lecture
In February 2020, BEPP and the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs hosted its annual Bonser lecture series. Its namesake, Charles Bonser, is a well-known academic and influential across both departments at IU. Andrew Butters, who helped organize this year’s lecture, says that the series creates an opportunity to bring in well-established thought… Read more »
Alumni Spotlight
In 2020, Laura Swedo graduated from the Kelley School of Business with a BEPP degree, having majored in economic consulting and co-majored in business analytics. “I was always interested in economics, and the business economics courses were my favorite, along with econometrics and managerial economics,” says Swedo. In one of her business analytics classes, they… Read more »