Tomasz Sadzik wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Tomasz Sadzik for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Spring 2019 for his class Econ 106G on Introduction to Game Theory. Game Theory provides a set of tools to study the interaction of multiple strategic agents. It can […]
Saki Bigio awarded NSF Grant
We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor Saki Bigio for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “A Model of Credit, Money, Interest and Prices” (Joint with Professor Yuliy Sannikov from Stanford Business School). His research formalizes the idea that central banks have more tools than is traditionally thought. Namely, […]
Lloyd Greif delivers 2019 Undergraduate Commencement Speech
On June 15, 2019, the UCLA Department of Economics held its Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony at Pauley Pavilion. Keynote Speaker Lloyd Greif (Class of ’77), President & CEO of Greif & Co., a leading investment bank, congratulated nearly 800 graduates on their singular achievement and wished them success in their future endeavors. During his speech, […]
Martin Hackmann and Michela Giorcelli—Named 2019-2020 Hellman Fellows
Congratulations to Assistant Professors Martin Hackmann and Michela Giorcelli who were both named Hellman Fellows for the 2019-2020 Academic year! The UCLA Hellman Fellows Program supports “research and creative activities that promote career advancement and enhance the individual’s progress towards tenure.” Read below to learn more about their research proposals. “The Effects of the […]
Stanley Fischer to speak at MAE Distinguished Speaker Series
On Thursday, May 23, 2019 from 6:00-7:30 PM, UCLA’s Department of Economics MAE Distinguished Speaker Series will be hosting Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Stanley Fisher speaking on the topic of “Monetary Policy Challenges Eleven Years After the Great Recession.” Stanley Fischer is the former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve and served […]
Pablo Fajgelbaum’s research featured in national news
UCLA Department Economics Associate Professor Pablo Fajgelbaum is featured in a variety of national news stories of late. Along with co-authors Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale (leave) and World Bank), Patrick Kennedy (UC Berkeley), and Amit Khandelwal (Columbia), their paper “The Return to Protectionism” has been cited by The Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, TIME, […]
The NBER Digest highlights research by Pablo Fajgelbaum
The May 2019 Edition of the National Bureau of Economic Research The NBER Digest highlights a paper by Pablo Fajgelbaum. Along with co-authors Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale (leave) and World Bank), Patrick Kennedy (UC Berkeley), and Amit Khandelwal (Columbia), their paper “The Return to Protectionism” has been cited for its analysis of the welfare effects of tariffs during […]
Jay Lu wins Winter 2019 Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award
The winner of the Department of Economic’s Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Winter 2019 is Assistant Professor Jay Lu. Jay won for his Econ 148 class, Behavioral Economics. Scoville was on the faculty of the department of economics for 28 years before his death in 1969. He is remembered by this quarterly award.
Hugo Hopenhayn in the Marginal Revolution
Professor Hopenhayn’s paper “From Population Growth to firm Demographics” was featured in Marginal Revolution today. Alex Tabarrok described it as “The best paper I have read in a long time”. He goes on to write: “The authors do a great job at combining empirics and theory to explain an important fact about the world in […]
Denis Chetverikov named Sloan Fellow
Denis Chetverikov has been named as a 2019 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Denis Chetverikov is a theoretical econometrician with broad interests. His worked has greatly enhanced our understanding of high dimensional and nonparametric models – an area often referred to as “big data”. Among his most important contributions are the high dimensional […]
