Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn named Associate Editor at Econometrica
Starting July 1, 2020; Professor Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn will be an Associate Editor at Econometrica. Econometrica publishes original articles in all branches of economics. Econometrica maintains a long tradition that submitted articles are refereed carefully and that detailed and thoughtful referee …
Co-Winners of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Andy Atkeson and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn for being the co-winners of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2020.
Andy Atkeson won this award while teaching …
2020 PhD Grads Accept Positions at Yale, Federal Reserve and Uber among others
The 2020 UCLA Ph.D. Economics job market outcomes were released today. Congratulations to all of our students – We are very proud of you!
Half the class will stay in academia, including positions at Yale, Southern Methodist, and Reed in …
CA Unemployment Insurance Claims during the Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has led to historically unprecedented increases in the level of initial Unemployment Insurance (UI) claims filed in California since the start of the crisis in mid-March.
Till von Wachter and UCLA’s California Policy Lab have partnered with …
PhD Student Selected to Attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate doctoral student, Diana Van Patten, who has been selected to participate in the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences, which will now take place in 2021. Ms. Van Patten was …
John Asker op-ed on Virgin Airlines Bailout
In this op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald, John Asker argues that the Australian government should bail out Virgin Australia in order to maintain competition in the airline market.…
Lee Ohanian discusses the social safety net with PBS News Hour
UCLA’s Professor Lee Ohanian was interviewed by PBS News Hour’s Daniel Bush, to discuss how COVID-19 could reshape America’s social safety net and how this could affect the upcoming election. An excerpt of the article can be found below.
Could …
Andy Atkeson discusses COVID-19 impact on US Economy on NPR
UCLA’s Professor Andy Atkeson joined Executive Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, Christine Mitchell, on NPR’s On Point to discuss the impact COVID-19 will continue to have on our economy and what to expect moving forward.…
David Baqaee awarded NSF Grant
We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor David Baqaee for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “Macroeconomics as Explicitly Aggregated Microeconomics.” One of the biggest changes in economics in the 21st century is the increasing …
