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 […]
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 the US, and Nottingham, Tsinghua and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics outside the US. […]
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 the Labor Market Information Division of the California Employment Development Department to analyze daily UI […]
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 nominated to be part of this prestigious group by the UCLA Economics Department, then selected as the […]
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 the coronavirus reshape America’s social safety net? By Daniel Bush The Democratic primary race was […]
