Board of Visitors Ronald D. Mass Managing Partner Almitas Capital LLC Ronald Mass, is the founder of Almitas Capital. He was a senior portfolio manager for over 20 years at Western Asset Management, an institutional fixed income manager with over $450 billion in assets under management, and led the Asset Backed Securities (ABS) and Mortgage […]
Board of Visitors Melisa L. Wilson Managing Director Leasing & Asset Finance Melisa Wilson is a Managing Director of the Leasing & Asset Finance Group (L&AF) of MUFG Union Bank, N.A. The group provides financing to the Fortune 1000 companies, the renewable power industry, U.S. subsidiaries of Asian companies, and MUFG’s client base. L&AF’s […]
Denis Chetverikov has been named as a 2019 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Denis Chetverikov is a theoretical econometrician with broad interests. His worked has greatly enhanced our understanding of high dimensional and nonparametric models – an area often referred to as “big data”. Among his most important contributions are the high dimensional […]
Nearly half of millennials say they prefer socialism to capitalism, but what do they mean? “My policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told “60 Minutes.” Yet Sweden’s experiment with socialist policies was disastrous, and its economic success in recent decades is a […]
Each year Quartz, a digital publication that’s part of Atlantic Media, publishes a list on Economics Research That Shaped Our World. This year include Professor Rodrigo Pinto’s paper on “Noncompliance as a Rational Choice”. This paper finds that growing up in an affluent neighborhood leads to better economic outcomes as an adult. Nobel prize winner Jim Heckman writes: “Randomized control […]
How do societies learn about the quality of innovations? How does the structure of social interactions affect their diffusion? These questions are critically important to modern economics, and to social science more broadly. They are relevant for the diffusion of new innovations, production techniques, and new business models. For example, consider how consumers learn about […]
Ryan Snyder graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Economics, and later returned to earn a master’s degree in Urban Planning. As an undergraduate, Snyder was interested in a wide variety of subjects, from Geography to Anthropology. The diversity of classes offered by the Economics major at UCLA gave him the freedom to study […]
Sir Ronald Fisher (1890-1962) is often regarded as the most influential statistician in 20th century. His 1935 book on “The Design of Experiments” sparked a revolution towards the use of the use of random assignments in assessing research inquiries. Fisher’s work is originally motivated by agricultural experiments. He explained how experiments that depart from the […]
UCLA Department of Economics and UCLA’s Master of Applied Economics presented Economic Policy Challenges Facing California’s Next Governor on October 29th, 2018 in Korn Convocation Hall.
Board of Visitors Jason Mozingo Managing Principal Passkey Investors, LLC Jason Mozingo is a private equity and credit investment professional with 20+ years of investing experience across multiple industries. He is the Managing Principal for Passkey Investors, LLC, a family-office evaluating and making investments in the consumer sector. From 2006-2017, Jason was with Centerbridge Partners, […]
