Adriana Lleras-Muney Named by President as a Top Scientist
On January 9th, President Obama named Adriana Lleras-Muney as a recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. “I congratulate these outstanding scientists and engineers on their impactful work,” President […]
Conference in honor of Hugo Hopenhayn
This weekend the department hosted a conference in honor of Hugo Hopenhayn. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Minnesota, Professor Hopenhayn has made fundamental contributions to industrial organization, macroeconomics and finance. Professor Hopenhayn is perhaps best known for his work on the evolution of industries, where he has provided elegant, tractable and quantitatively accurate models of […]
Op-Ed by Lee Ohanian in San Francisco Chronicle
Professor Lee Ohanian wrote an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle on President-elect Donald Trump’s economic plan. http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/What-adds-up-and-what-doesn-t-in-Trump-s-10616888.php
Pierre-Olivier Weill featured in the Economist
Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill’s research was featured in an Economist article on the relationship between housing prices and economic, social, and geographic conditions. article: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21709974-prices-are-diverging-geographic-social-and-ethnic-lines-those-have?frsc=dg%7Cc
New Book by Leah Boustan
Professor Leah Boustan published a book entitled “Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets”. This builds on her 10 years of research into the great migration carried out at UCLA. You can buy the book from Amazon. A Quick Overview: From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left […]
Welcome New Faculty Members
The Department of Economics is pleased to introduce our new faculty members: Assistant Professor Youssef Benzarti (Ph.D. 2016, University of California, Berkeley) Assistant Professor Michela Giorcelli (Ph.D. 2016, Stanford University) Assistant Professor Martin Hackmann (Ph.D. 2014, Yale University, previously an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University) Also joining us this year as a Visiting Professor […]
New book by Roger Farmer
Professor Roger Farmer’s new book, Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises, was published this month by Oxford University Press. The book is available on Amazon. Learn more about the book on his website. In my book Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises,I draw on evidence not just from the 1930s, but also from […]
UCLA Economists awarded NSF Grants
John Asker won an NSF Grant entitled “Market Power and Resource Allocation” to examine how the global oil cartel OPEC impacts productive efficiency. Denis Chetverikov and Zhipeng Liao also won an NSF grant entitled “Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional and Nonparametric Models in Econometrics” to study how to select a smoothing parameter for Lasso estimators that are commonly used to estimate […]
Congratulations 2016 Scoville Teaching Award winners
The department would like to congratulate the 2016 winners of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Spring 2016 Tomasz Sadzik – Econ 106G “Introduction to Game Theory” Winter 2016 Jay Lu – Econ 148 “Behavioral Economics” Fall 2015 Lee Ohanian – Econ 165 “History of American Capitalism”
Congratulations Class of 2016!
The Department of Economics congratulates our 2015-2016 degree recipients. We are proud of you for your accomplishments and wish you much success in your future endeavors. We would like to extend our warmest thank you to Mr. Steven Laub for his keynote speech at our 2016 Commencement Ceremony on June 11 at Pauley Pavilion. Mr. […]
