Rosa Matzkin, Charles E. Davidson Professor of Economics, has been elected 2023 Econometric Society president. The official announcement can be found here. More about the Econometric Society can be found here.
PhD student Giovanni Righi has been awarded a doctoral grant for 2022-2023 from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. More information about the grant can be found here.
UCLA professors Andres Santos and Oleg Itskhoki were named Econometric Society Fellows. More information about the Econometric Society can be found here. The full list of fellows can be found here.
UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki makes a cameo appearance in the Business Insider article “Fewer Chinese Students May Hurt the US Economy.” The article can be found here.
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 […]
On August 2, 2022, Bloomberg interviewed UCLA Professor and recent Clark Medal winner Oleg Itskhoki. The full interview can be read here.
By John Asker OPEC, the global cartel of oil producing countries, led by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, controls approximately 50% of the world’s oil reserves. In (Mis)Allocation, Market Power and Global Oil Extraction (American Economic Review, 109(4), 1568-1615, 2019) and The Welfare Impact of Market Power: The OPEC Cartel (work in progress) Professor […]
Valentina Glaviano grew up in Sacramento, California in a first-generation Italian American household. In high school, she was a stellar student and was admitted into plenty of colleges come senior year. The commitment process, however, was what she described as conservative. In addition to weighing academics, she had to choose a school that she could […]
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 […]
UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki makes a cameo appearance in the New Yorker article “Is Selling Shares in Yourself the way of the Future?” The article can be found here.
