Michael Rubens Named Young Economists´ Essay Award Winner by EARIE

Michael Rubens won the 2022 Young Economists´ Essay Award Winner presented by the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). The Young Economists´ Essay Award is awarded annually to 3 authors under the age of 35, who are less than 5 years from their PhD defense, during EARIE’s annual conference. More information about the […]

Simon Board Awarded Spring 2022 Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award

Simon Board won the Spring 2022 Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for his new class “Econ 106S: Competitive Strategy”. This class uses a combination of economic principles and case studies to discuss the economic forces underlying successful business strategy. Specifically, it teaches students to identify sources of sustainable competitive advantage and to understand the dynamics of strategic […]

Conference in Honor of Harold Demsetz

On May 27th, former colleagues, students, and friends of Harold Demsetz (1930-2019) hosted a conference in his honor. A video of the conference is available here. Harold Demsetz (1930-2019), a long-time professor at UCLA, was a pioneer in the development and use of microeconomic theory to analyze questions of how property rights and institutional arrangements […]