Merger approval decisions of national antitrust authorities have important effects on other jurisdictions. For example, the merger of two U.S. pharmaceutical companies may lead to higher drugs prices in Europe, or affect the worldwide level of innovation. As the efficiency gains induced by a merger might be sufficient to outweigh its anti-competitive effect in one […]
The rise of information technology has made it relatively simple to change prices over the life of a product. Such “dynamic pricing” is important for many industries: In retailing, sellers can carefully manage end-of season sales; in the airline industry, firms can adjust the price of a particular flight to the number of seats sold, […]
As part of the MAE Distinguished Speaker series, Pat Bajari, the Chief Economist of Amazon, gave a talk on using big data in practice. His talk focused on the methodology of how to continuous refine algorithms to make steady improvements, by developing new models, training them on data and then testing them against competitors. […]
Professor David K. Levine graduated from UCLA in 1977, earning a dual degree of Bachelors in Mathematics and a Masters in Economics. He was enrolled as a UCLA student during high school, but he later studied at Harvard University for a year before coming back to UCLA in his second year and finishing his degrees. […]
Social and economic networks permeate our lives. They play an important role in determining how diseases spread, which products we buy, how much education we attain, and even whether to smoke. Since social and economic networks are central to our economic well-being, economists have recently become increasingly interested in exploring how social and economic networks […]
Professor Volker Nocke is the scientific program chair of the 44thAnnual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), which takes place from August 31 till September 2, 2017 in Maastricht, The Netherlands. With more than 400 participants from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world, it is the largest […]
We wish to congratulate the Department of Economics Class of 2017. We wish our graduates the best of luck in their future endeavors. On Saturday, June 17, 2017, approximately 800 students graduated from our Department, with Bachelors degrees in Economics, Business Economics, and Mathematics/Economics. These students are going in to consulting, tech, and banking jobs, […]
Board of Visitors Mr. Richard C. Hartnack Director Freddie Mac Rick began his career in banking in 1971 at First National Bank of Oregon, which became a subsidiary of First Interstate Bank. He rose from Management Trainee to Executive Vice President and head of Corporate Banking. In 1982 he moved to First Chicago where […]
Board of Visitors Mr. Venu Kotamraju President Ram Food Products, Inc. Venu Kotamraju graduated as a double major from UCLA with a BA in Economics (’95) and BS in Mechanical Engineering (’95) and later returned for his MBA (’99) from Anderson. He currently resides in Makati City, Philippines, where he is the President of […]
