Mission, vision & goals
A page within Menard Family Initiative
Mission
The Menard Family Initiative seeks to further our understanding of the free market and the political, economic, financial, and social institutions that guide the working of the same.
Vision
We will focus on entrepreneurship, innovation and regulations (including financial innovation and regulation), free speech and its implications, democracy and what it means for the modern world, and economic and financial decision making, among other topics. A political economy as well as an experimental finance and economics approach will be adopted in the initiatives and efforts that will be planned by the MFI.
Goals
- Undertake initiatives aimed at engaging students, faculty, and the community.
- Generate ideas to help support the business community and entrepreneurship in the region.
- Produce impactful research that can be consumed by a general audience.
- Create lasting and impactful experiences for students.
- Improve the understanding of the role of business in society.
Primary Research Areas
- Entrepreneurship
- Political Economy
- Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Finance
- Economic Development
- Regulation
- Financial Regulation
- Tax and Budget Policy
- Economic Opportunity
- Education
“We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage.” – F.A. Hayek
