2018 Jeffrey W. Baus ’59 Scholarship Recipient Biography: Anqi Chen is a third year student double majoring in business economics, piano performance and minoring in accounting. She was born in China and moved to Italy at age 12. She is fluent in three languages and is proud of her multicultural background. She started her college […]
A recent article in the Financial Times leans heavily on research from UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian. According to the piece, “How the US actually financed the second world war,” the US raised taxes on capital from 44 to 60 percent during the second world war. Further, labour taxes doubled, from 9 to 18 percent. According […]
The UCLA Department of Economics congratulates Professor Michela Giorcelli for winning the Scoville Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2018 for her class Econ 181, Development of Economic Institutions in Western Europe. This course applies economic theory and quantitative reasoning to study the economic history of Western Europe from the 18th to the 20th […]
This article by Lee Ohanian originally appeared in The Hill. Last week, 31,000 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers represented by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union went on strike for the first time in 30 years. Substitute teachers and administrators make up a skeleton crew that is keeping schools open, and about […]
I have just learned of Harold Demsetz’s death. I knew he had been in decline for some time, but the news still occasioned a great sadness. Harold was a major influence on me and on the world at large. It is this larger significance of his work that I want to emphasize here. We have […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is very happy to announce that Associate Professor Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn has been appointed as an Editor for the Review of Economic Design! The Review of Economic Design explores the art and science of inventing, analyzing, and testing economic, social, and political institutions and mechanisms. The journal applies normative and positive economics and […]
This piece originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Political persecution drove former Colombian agriculture minister Andrés Felipe Arias to flee to the U.S. in 2014. The U.S. Embassy in Bogotá helped him escape, and when he arrived in Florida he immediately applied for asylum. But if Mr. Arias thought he was safe, he wasn’t taking […]
French President Emmanuel Macron’s ambitious goal of creating a vibrant and competitive French economy through major economic reforms came crashing down last week when riots over issues ranging from fuel taxes to inequality forced him to backpedal on some of his key reform ideas. With an approval rating of around 20 percent and plummeting, Macron […]
Berkeley–The California Policy Lab (CPL) was awarded a $1.2 million grant from the University of California’s Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives to leverage experts across the UC system to tackle complex problems that include homelessness and designing education and training to meet workforce needs. “With this grant, new scholars will provide expertise needed for projects […]
On Friday, November 30th, the California Policy Lab (CPL) hosted colleagues from the law enforcement and research communities for a conference on policing innovation and reform. Over the course of the day, participants heard from local and national law enforcement leaders, researchers, practitioners, and subject matter experts about the challenges of implementing policing reform on […]
