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Lloyd Greif gives 2019 Commencement Speech
Denis Chetverikov named Sloan Fellow
Value Investing Concentration
The newly approved Value Investing Concentration is intended to prepare students for a wide range of careers in which they will be faced with the challenge of evaluating investment opportunities and making active decisions to direct capital to enhance value.

November 4, 2019

Beginning with the Fall 2019 graduating class, our Economics…

Jay Lu awarded NSF Grant

August 20, 2019

We'd like to congratulate Assistant Professor Jay Lu for being…

Lee Ohanian Op-Ed on Volatile Markets in The Hill

August 19, 2019

Why the markest turned volatile--and why you shouldn't panic By…

UCLA to host 2019 CEME Conference

August 8, 2019

On September 6 and 7, UCLA will host the 2019 CEME Conference…

Research Spotlight

Immigration and Labor Markets

November 1, 2019

Economists have been studying the labor-market consequences…

Racial Bias in Policing

September 1, 2019

In January 2017, Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions was…

Alumni Interviews

Mark Kingdon

September 1, 2019

If you took a student from a painting class, and dropped…

Allyson Benas

July 1, 2019

Allyson Benas, currently Head of Product at Holotech Studios,…

Featured Faculty

Andres Santos

Andrew Atkeson

Simon Board

Recent Publications

Econometrica

The Macroeconomic Impact of Microeconomic Shocks: Beyond Hulten’s Theorem

David Rezza Baqaee, Emmanuel Farhi

Review of Economics Studies

Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labour Market Outcomes in Norway

Adriana Lleras-Muney, Marianne Bertrand, Sandra E Black, Sissel Jensen

American Economic Review

Allocation, Market Power, and Global Oil Extraction

John Asker, Allan Collard-Wexler, and Jan De Loecker

Events

Calendar

November 13, 2019

Proseminar in Industrial Organization - Econ 278 - Vitaly Titov

November 13, 2019 @ 11:30 am - 12:50 pm
Bunche 9294

Practice Job Talk

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Ettinger Fund Workshop in Macroeconomics - Fatih Güvenen (University of Minnesota)

November 13, 2019 @ 11:40 am - 12:55 pm
Bunche 9383

"Use It or Lose It: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation"

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Econometrics Workshop - Antonio Galvao (Arizona)

November 13, 2019 @ 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Bunche 9383

Estimating the Elasticity of IntertemporalSubstitution: A Quantile Utility Maximization Approach

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November 14, 2019

Proseminar in Econometrics - Econ 238 - Kirill Ponomarev; Wan Zhang

November 14, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Bunche Hall 9294

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Workshop in Trade, Economic Geography, and Development - Cecile Gaubert (Berkeley)

November 14, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Bunche 9383

"Income Growth and the Distributional Effectsof Urban Spatial Sorting"

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November 18, 2019

Ettinger Fund Workshop in Macroeconomics - Ezra Oberfield (Princeton)

November 18, 2019 @ 11:40 am - 12:55 pm

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Albert Family Fund Seminar in Applied Microeconomics - Econ 269 - Melanie Morten (Stanford)

November 18, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

"Border Walls"

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Our Mission

Lloyd Greif gives 2019 Commencement Speech

Denis Chetverikov named Sloan Fellow

Value Investing Concentration

2019-2020 Job Market Candidates

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UCLA Economics Programs Now Classified as STEM