Lee Ohanian speaks at UC Berkeley Baxter Liberty Initiative
Professor Lee Ohanian recently presented the annual Baxter Liberty Lecture at UC Berkeley on The Tarnishing of the Golden State: How Poorly Designed Policies Killed the California Dream on December 8th, 2020. Watch the full video below. The Baxter Liberty Initiative is a program in Berkeley’s Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political […]
Comprehensive COVID-19 Screening and the Economy
UCLA’s Professor Atkeson, along side Harvard’s Michael C. Droste, Michael Mina and James H. Stock, have been researching the effects of comprehensive COVID-19 screening and how it could help improve the current US economy. Their research shows how testing often in every household would induce GDP growth as well as greatly reducing the number of […]
Lee Ohanian on the Importance of Immigration
The United States has attracted some of the most creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial talent from all around the world. Immigration allows us to sustain economic growth in America with a constant inflow of new ideas. We have benefited from immigrants who have been willing to take risks and to implement ideas in a competitive marketplace. […]
Walter Williams, UCLA Ph.D.
From the Wall Street Journal: America has lost one of its greatest economists and public intellectuals. Walter Williams died Wednesday morning after teaching his final class at George Mason University on Tuesday. He was 84. For 40 years Walter was the heart and soul of George Mason’s unique Department of Economics. Our department unapologetically resists […]
Remembering Ed Lazear
Described as “perhaps the foremost labor economist of his generation,” UCLA alumnus, Stanford economics professor, and White House advisor, Edward P. Lazear passed away this week. Professor Lazear received undergraduate and masters degrees in economics from UCLA in 1971. He then obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard before joining the faculty at Chicago and Stanford. Professor […]
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 […]
