Oleg Itskhoki Wins Clark Medal
UCLA economist Oleg Itskhoki has won the John Bates Clark Medal, an award given annually to an American economist under age 40 “who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.” Oleg was recognized for his fundamental contributions to both international finance and international trade. A full description of Oleg Itskhoki’s contributions that led to the Clark Medal can be found here.
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Designing Disclosure for an Inattentive Audience

The Long-Term Consequences of Slum Clearance on Children

Valentina Glaviano

Mila Skulkina

Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation
Will Rafey
Inference for Large-Scale Linear Systems with Known Coefficients
Zheng Fang, Andres Santos, Azeem M. Shaikh, Alexander Torgovitsky
From Population Growth to Firm Demographics: Implications for Concentration, Entrepreneurship and the Labor Share
Hugo Hopenhayn, Julian Neira, Rish SinghaniaCalendar
- February 6, 2023
Recruitment Workshop - Patrick Kennedy (UC Berkeley)
February 6, 2023 @ 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Hybrid - See descriptionBunche 9383 and Zoom
Paper: The Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff of the Corporate Income Tax:Evidence from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
https://patrick-kennedy.github.io/files/PKennedy_JMP.pdf
- February 7, 2023
Recruitment Workshop - Yong Cai (NW)
February 7, 2023 @ 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Hybrid - See descriptionBunche 9383 and Zoom
Paper: Linear Regression with Centrality Measures
https://yong-cai.github.io/assets/images/eigenReg.pdfProseminar in Economic Theory - Econ 218 - Stepan Aleksenko *
February 7, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- February 8, 2023
Recruitment Workshop - Levi Crews (Chicago)
February 8, 2023 @ 11:40 am - 1:00 pm
Hybrid - See descriptionBunche 9383 and Zoom
Paper: A Dynamic Spatial Knowledge Economy
https://www.levicrews.com/files/p-dske_paper.pdf
- February 22, 2023
Albert Family Fund Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Econ 269 - Chris Blattman (Chicago Harris)
February 22, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
9383 Bunche Hall
- February 23, 2023
Workshop in Economic Theory - Eddie Dekel (Northwestern)
February 23, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
9383 Bunche Hall
- February 24, 2023
Econometrics Workshop - Econometrics Mini-Conference
February 24, 2023
Presenters:
1. Whitney Newey (MIT)
2. Jack Porter (Wisconsin-Madison)
3. Jeff Wooldridge (Michigan State)
4. Ivan Canay (Northwestern)
Dinner:
1. Whitney Newey (MIT)
2. Jack Porter (Wisconsin-Madison)
3. Jeff Wooldridge (Michigan State)
4. Ivan Canay (Northwestern)
5. Tim Armstrong (USC)
6. Steve McBride (ROBLOX)
7. Cheng Hsiao (USC)