Announcing New Marketing Video for UCLA Economics!
With the help from UCLA Partnership, the UCLA Department of Economics is excited to announce the newly created and published Introduction to the UCLA Economics Department marketing video. This project has been months in the works–but we are super proud of this final product that we can share with all of you! Thank you to […]
Moshe Buchinsky Named 2020 Econometric Society Fellow
Moshe Buchinsky was recently named a 2020 Econometric Society Fellow. The Econometric Society is one of the most prestigious learned society in the field of economics, with a world-wide membership. Its main object is to promote studies that aim at a unification of the theoretical and empirical approach to economic problems and that are penetrated by […]
Rosa Matzkin elected VP of the Econometric Society
Rosa Matzkin has been elected Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society. She will presumably become First Vice-President in 2022 and President in 2023. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Officers and New Fellows are elected each year by the current Fellows. […]
Martha Bailey awarded Russell Sage and NIH Grants
One of our newest faculty members, Martha Bailey, is hitting the ground running at UCLA with the funding of two new research proposals. The first is for the project, “Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in the US over the 20th Century,” funded by the Center for Equitable Growth and the Russell Sage Foundation. The project aims to […]
Welcoming 7 New Faculty Members!
The UCLA Department of Economics is excited to announce that we are welcoming 7 new faculty members to our department for the 2020-2021 academic year. We are excited to have them join our ranks and welcome them all to Los Angeles! For more information about each of the new faculty members, click below: Martha Bailey […]
How much is Amazon worth to you?
Professor Lee E. Ohanian and Jesus Fernandez-Villarverde were recently featured in The Hill on September 6, 2020 for their opinion piece regarding the success of Amazon and it’s place in our current economy. Excerpt: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of about 11 percent of Amazon stock, recently became the first person in history to […]
Finis Welch (1938-2020)
Finis Welch 1938-2020 Finis Welch passed away unexpectedly on August 24, 2020. A resident of Bryan and Centerville, Texas, Finis was a world-renowned economist, highly successful entrepreneur and accomplished rancher. The son of Edgar Joe Welch and Addie Houston Welch, Finis Welch was born July 11, 1938 in Pasadena, Texas, and graduated from Pasadena High […]
Hoover Panel with Lee Ohanian
The Hoover Institution presents an online virtual speaker series based on the scholarly research and commentary written by Hoover fellows participating in the Human Prosperity Project on Socialism and Free-Market Capitalism. This project objectively investigates the historical record to assess the consequences for human welfare, individual liberty, and interactions between nations of various economic systems […]
The Benjamin Graham Value Investing Program August 2020 Newsletter
The Benjamin Graham Value Investing Program Newsletter for August 2020 has now been published! Please click below to read more about the program and how it is continuing to benefit our students. August 2020 Newsletter
Simon Board wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
Spring 2020 came with a lot of unexpected changes for both faculty and students due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Teaching plans were completely altered and everyone had to adapt to this new normal quickly. We are very thankful for all the faculty and their abilities to continue to bring quality education to our students during […]
