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 […]
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. The full audio broadcast can be found by visiting WBUR’s website here. On Point is broadcast […]
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 availability of comprehensive, high quality, micro-level data on households and firms. To utilize all this […]
Faculty Research Featured in UCLA Anderson Review
The UCLA Anderson Review recently published the article, “Google Says to Hire the Best, but Suppose You Can’t?” written by Dee Gill. This article highlights the research currently being done by Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, and Tomasz Sadzik on how top companies tend to “hog the best talent” and how this affects other firms. Below […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Adriana Lleras-Muney for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2019 for her class Econ 130–Public Finance. This course explores the role of governments in the economy. It analyzes why governments intervene in some markets and not others […]
Professor Giorcelli recognized by Kiel Institute
Professor Michela Giorcelli has been named a winner of a 2020 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The other award winners are Luigi Bocola (Stanford), Teodora Boneva (Oxford), and Javier Cravino (Michigan and former UCLA Ph.D. student). The aim of the Excellence Award is “to build a […]
Professor Ohanian’s Research featured in The Economist
Professor Ohanian’s research was recently discussed in an article published in The Economist. The article, “Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems” was published in the January 16th edition and an excerpt can be found below— Housing is at the root of many of the rich world’s problems Since the […]
Predicting and Preventing Homelessness Report
UCLA Department of Economics Professor Till von Wachter worked alongside the California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab to publish a report on Predicting and Preventing Homelessness. They used Los Angeles County data on multi-system service use to predict homelessness among single adults receiving mainstream County services. By identifying people at high […]
