Paper by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson featured in the Economist
The paper “There is No Excess Volatility Puzzle” by UCLA Professor Andrew Atkeson and coauthors Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis was featured in the June 8th 20024 edition of the Economist. The paper argues that movements in the price of a broad share index between 1929 and 2023 […]
UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu is the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship
The California Center for Population Research selected UCLA Graduate Student Huihuang Zhu as the 2024 recipient of the Treiman Fellowship. Huihuang’s project, “Evaluating the Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs of Academic Tracking: Lessons from Advanced Placement,” uses event-study and differences-in-differences methodology and finds that the AP program had large effects on the likelihood that high-performing students matriculate in […]
UCLA Professor Martin Hackmann wins the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Winter 2024
UCLA Professor Martin Hackmann has won the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Winter 2024 for his course Econ131: Economics of Health and Healthcare. The course focuses on the economic analysis of the U.S. medical care sector, a major industry with $4.5 trillion in spending, accounting for 17% of GDP. It delves into the […]
UCLA Professor Bernardo Silveira guest editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization has invited UCLA Professor Bernardo Silveira to be a guest editor for the issue on ‘Conflict, Distribution, and Efficiency in Bargaining’. Details about the issue can be found here.
Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero Wins the 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award
Former UCLA Graduate Student Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, now a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, won the Population Association of America’s highly competitive 2024 Dorothy Thomas Award for best graduate student paper. Her paper, entitled “Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families,” documents how Chile’s mandated slum-clearance programs […]
UCLA graduate student Nate Barlow wins the Economic History Early Stage Dissertation Grant
Nate Barlow, a graduate student in the UCLA economics department has won the Economic History Early Stage Dissertation Grant for his project on reparations paid to Japanese internees. The grant is awarded to the most promising dissertations in economic history.
UCLA Professors Board and Meyer-ter-Vehn receive AEJ Best Paper Award
UCLA Professors Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn received the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award for their paper ‘A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics’ published in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics in 2022. The annual AEJ Best Paper Award is given to the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic […]
UCLA Professor Martha Bailey Elected a Fellow of the Cliometric Society
Professor Martha Bailey was elected a fellow of the cliometric society. Fellows must have published contributions to economic history that are markedly original and have significantly advanced the frontiers of knowledge. A complete list of Fellows can be found here.
Paper by UCLA Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill was featured in NBER Digest
A paper by UCLA Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill studying bond trading was featured in the February issue of NBER Digest. The paper finds that, in addition to the characteristics of a bond trade request, the characteristics of the bond trader are important in determining the time to consummating a trade and the failure rate. The February […]
