Martha Byrne is a senior Economics major, and a member of the Glynn Family Honors program. She is minoring in Data Science, Constitutional Studies, and French. In her free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors and visiting national parks. Her love for the environment comes in part from her experience working as a naturalist at her county’s nature preserve and museum.
Her research interests include the use of economic policy to address social, political, and quality of life issues abroad and at home, as well as the intersection of environmental issues and macroeconomics. Martha has experience working in R, Stata, Python, Excel, and Powerpoint, and is Bloomberg Terminal Certified. She has researched United States monetary, fiscal, and carbon policy, and various issues in the European Union and developing countries.
Martha is coauthor of a paper published in The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Journal of Future Economists on “Leading Factors of Gender Inequality,” and will be presenting her paper “Incorporating Job Vacancies into the Phillips Curve” at the Midwest Economic Association conference in March 2025. She has also spent time in France taking language classes through a CSLC SLA grant. Martha is secretary of Notre Dame’s Fed and Fiscal Challenge Club, where she helped the Fed Team become national semifinalists and the top team in the Chicago region, and the Fiscal Challenge team place first nationally at the Washington, DC competition. She is writing an economics senior honors thesis on detrending data and understanding when government defaults occur.
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Ming Hu