Lee Ohanian testifies before the U.S. Senate on housing policies
UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian testified before the U.S. Senate on July 20, 2022 on housing policies. The C-SPAN video of the hearing is available here.
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Entries by Jenail Mobaraka
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 […]
Pierre Olivier Weill becomes Coeditor of Theoretical Economics
On July 1st, Pierre Olivier Weill became coeditor of Theoretical Economics. Theoretical Economics is the leading journal in economic theory. It is open access and is a journal of the Econometric Society. More information about Theoretical Economics can be found here.
Pablo Fajgelbaum named to the Board of Editors of American Economic Review Insights
On July 1st, Pablo Fajgelbaum was named to the Board of Editors of American Economic Review Insights. More information about American Economic Review Insights can be found here.
Lee Ohanian Discusses California’s Housing Crisis and Potential Policy Reforms
Lee Ohanian discussed California’s housing crisis and potential policy remedies on a podcast available here.
Aging Population and Aging Firms
By Hugo Hopenhayn During the last 40 years, the US economy has been experiencing a series of trends that have captured the attention of economists, public policy, and media. Firstly, there has been a sharp decline in the rate of growth of labor force, following a similar decline in fertility rates. Secondly, there has been […]
Mila Skulkina
Mila Skulkina, class of 2001 has lived a storied life. In this profile she shares her UCLA story and how lessons learned on campus have impacted her career. When Mila was a teenager in the 1990s, she and her father emigrated to the United States from Moscow. She had a rudimentary knowledge of the English […]
In Memory of Axel Leijonhufvud
by Guido Tabellini I first learnt about Axel when I was an undergraduate student in Italy in the late 1970s. His strange surname was easy to remember, but there were much deeper reasons to pay attention to him than just his surname. These were the times of the debate between Monetarists and Keynesians, and Axel’s […]
Remembering Axel Leijonhufvud
By David K. Levine Axel Leijonhufvud was a gentleman and a scholar. As an undergraduate at UCLA my first class in macroeconomics was from Axel and I later had the pleasure of knowing him as a colleague and a friend.Axel well understood that what we do as economists is less to create ideas than to […]
Remembering Axel Leijonhufvud
The UCLA Department of Economics is sad to announce that Axel Leijonhufvud (1933-2022) passed away on May 2nd 2022. Axel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and obtained his bachelor degree at the University of Lund. After coming to the United States in 1960, he earned an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. […]
