One of the central functions of investors in a market economy is to direct capital to its most productive use. This concentration in Value Investing in a Market Economy is intended to prepare students for a wide range of careers in which they will be faced with the challenge of evaluating investment opportunities and making […]
We are pleased to announce that Adriana Lleras-Muney has been elected to the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association for a three-year term beginning January 7, 2018. The AEA is the profession’s most important society, publishing seven economics journals, and having over 18,000 members.
Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn joined the editorial board of the American Economic Review, one of the profession’s “top-5” journals, as an associate editor. He will be working with co-editor Jeff Ely on submissions in pure and applied economic theory.
The Economics Department is pleased to announce that William Zame has been elected as a fellow of the Game Theory Society. According the to Society’s bylaws, “The Fellows of the Society are a group of people honored for their contributions to game theory and service to the Society, and are a source of advice for […]
Professor Michela Giorcelli was awarded the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for her dissertation “Economic Recovery and the Determinants of Productivity and Innovation: Evidence from Post-WWII Italy”. The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize is annually awarded by the Economic History Association for the best dissertation in economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada. Congratulations!
Professor François Geerolf is mentioned in The Economist magazine, in an article entitled “Kicking the can down an endless road“, for his work on dynamic inefficiency. One of the six big economic ideas chosen by the Economist in the summer of 2017, is this idea that some types of Ponzi schemes, such as pay-as-you-go systems, or […]
Ariel Burstein and Jonathan Vogel, together with Gordon Hanson of UCSD, received a two-year grant from “Russell Sage Foundation” (RSF) to support the project “Tradability and the Labor Market Impact of Immigration.” The total award is $127,000. They study how differences in the tradability of goods and services determine how U.S. local labor markets adjust […]
The department would like to congratulate Marek Pycia for winning the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Professor Pycia’s Econ 106D course discusses the design and use of markets and other institutions to solve problems of matching markets and resource allocation. The course uses both theory and case studies to help […]
In a recent article in the business section of the Los Angeles Times titled “The Fed took bold steps to books the economy. Will undoing one of them rattle markets?”, UCLA’s Lee Ohanian was asked what he thought about the moved the Fed had made. The article discusses how the Federal Reserve bought up trillions […]
The allure of the investment industry has long attracted numerous successful UCLA alumni. For Gary Ghazarian, it was no exception. With over 25 years’ experience in the field, he currently serves as the Director of Operations for Marketable Securities at leading alternative investment firm Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. Having pursued a degree in Economics at […]
