Ph.D. Student Placement
Congratulations to our Ph.D. students for their success in the job market. They will be heading to the following places: Omer Ali: Analysis Group Adrien d’Avernas: Stockholm School of Economics Xue Hu: Amazon Mat Miller: Amazon Ruoyao Shi: UC Riverside Chad Stecher: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Colin Weiss: Federal Reserve Board Sibo Yan: KPMG Gabriel Zaourak: World […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney in the Washington Post
Professor Adriana Lleras-Muney was quoted in the Washington Post in a story about the stagnating life expectancy in America. This article is based on a conference at the Brooking Institution.
Michela Giorcelli wins Cole Grant
Professor Michela Giorcelli was awarded the Cole Research Grants-in-Aid for post-Doctoral Research by the Economic History Association for her project on “The Marshall Plan and the European and US Economies After WWII”. The Cole Grants are annually awarded to recent Ph.D. recipients to support research in economic history.
NBER Profile on Till von Wachter
The National Bureau of Economic Research featured Professor Till von Wachter in it’s biannual Bulletin on Aging and Health.
Econ Major named PAC 12 All-Academic
UCLA basketball center Tom Welsh and Economics major is named as PAC 12 All-Academic. Starting at 51:40, he talks about his favorite class (intermediate microeconomics!) and UCLA Basketball on the Bruin Insider show.
Board of Visitors’ Barry Eggers on Snapchat
Venture capitalist Barry Eggers (BA ’85) is a member of our Board of Visitors, and frequent guest lecturer in Econ 106E and 106T. In this blog post he discusses how he discovered Snapchat five years ago, and went on to give them seed funding. Snapchat had its IPO yesterday.
Pablo Fajgelbaum named Sloan Fellow
Pablo Fajgelbaum has been named as a 2017 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Professor Fajgelbaum specializes in international trade. His recent research includes the distributional effects of international trade, the impact of regional tax policies, and optimal transport networks in general-equilibrium trade models. His teaches international trade theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The […]
Richard Blundell gives MAE Lecture
In the second MAE Distinguished Speaker Lecture, Professor Richard Blundell of University College London talked about “Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform” The lecture’s starting point was the Mirrlees Review that brought together a high-profile group of international experts to identify the characteristics of a good tax system for any developed economy in the 21st century. Professor Blundell described a broad […]
Simon Board wins Scoville Teaching Award
The winner of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Fall 2016 is Simon Board. Professor Board teaches Econ 106T: The Economics of e-Commerce and Technology. The class uses tools from game theory to study business strategy, including topics such as platform markets, innovation and reputation. The course then uses these insights to discuss recent […]
Jerry Hausman gives Inaugural MAE Lecture
Jerry Hausman, the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Professor of Economics at MIT, gave the inaugural Lecture of the Masters in Applied Economics Distinguished Speakers Series. The talk was entitled “Future Productivity: Pessimistic and Optimistic Viewpoints” and discussed the future evolution of productivity. Professor Hausman spoke about the changing roles of human and intellectual capital, and […]
