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 […]
New Data Science Class
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that we are extending the data training for all students admitted to the major beginning in Fall of 2020. A solid foundation of empirical techniques is fundamental in understanding and studying economic phenomena, and increasingly demanded by employers. The new class is entitled Econ 104: Data Science […]
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 reports are provided to the author as an aid to scientific research, thus ensuring the […]
2020 Virtual Graduation Celebration!
On June 13, 2020 the Department of Economics, hosted it’s first ever Virtual Graduation Celebration for the 2020 graduates. With over 700 graduating students, this was not the most ideal way to celebrate all that they have accomplished over their time at UCLA. However, we are so proud of all our students and were happy […]
Lee Ohanian featured on Hoover Institute Virtual Briefing
Lee Ohanian was recently featured as a top scholar on an episode of Hoover Institute’s online virtual briefing series. The briefing, “Steven J. Davis and Lee Ohanian: Unemployment, the Stock Market and our Economic Future” discusses how the current COVID-19 Pandemic is affecting the US economy.
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 ECON 173A – Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship. This course is a full-scale immersion into the […]
