Predicting and Preventing Homelessness Report released 12/16/2019
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Professor’s work cited in Washington Post article
On January 6th, 2020; the Washington Post published an article regarding the health impacts of recession. In it, the author cited Professor Till von Wachter’s research and paper with Northwestern University’s Hannes Schwandt.
Washington Post Article: Don’t Root For a …
Lee Ohanian Op-Ed in The Hill
Warren Buffett, taxing capital income is a bad idea
By Lee Ohanian
In 2011, superstar investor Warren Buffett made headlines not for his investment recommendations but for his opinion that tax rates on high earners should substantially increase.
Buffett proposed …
Department Renames the Value Investing Program after Benjamin Graham
The Economics Department is delighted to announce the renaming of its undergraduate Value Investing Program after the field’s pre-eminent pioneer, Benjamin Graham. With the concurrence and encouragement of Mr. Graham’s son, Dr. Benjamin Graham, Jr., the program will now be …
UCLA Economics Programs Now Classified as STEM
Beginning with the Fall 2019 graduating class, our Economics and Business Economics Bachelors, Master of Applied Economics, and Economics PhD programs will be officially classified as STEM (CIP code 45.0603). The STEM designation signifies the analytical rigor of our classes, …
Jay Lu awarded NSF Grant
We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor Jay Lu for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research on the economic theory of human decision-making. The first part of this project will address common everyday situations where individuals …
Lee Ohanian Op-Ed on Volatile Markets in The Hill
Why the markest turned volatile–and why you shouldn’t panic
By Lee Ohanian
Financial market volatility has skyrocketed in recent days. The Standard and Poors 500 Index, which consists of the 500 largest, publicly traded corporations, lost 6 percent of its …
UCLA to host 2019 CEME Conference
On September 6 and 7, UCLA will host the 2019 CEME Conference for Young Econometricians with the support of the National Science Foundation.
This workshop, which is part of the Conference on Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (CEME) series, has the …
Tomasz Sadzik wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Tomasz Sadzik for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Spring 2019 for his class Econ 106G on Introduction to Game Theory.
Game Theory …
Saki Bigio awarded NSF Grant
We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor Saki Bigio for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “A Model of Credit, Money, Interest and Prices” (Joint with Professor Yuliy Sannikov from Stanford Business School).
His …
