Economic Policy Challenges Facing California’s Next Governor
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.
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Entries by Jerry Liu
Jason Mozingo
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, […]
Tomasz Sadzik wins Spring 2018 Scoville Teaching Award
We would like to congratulate Professor Tomasz Sadzik for winning the Scoville Award for best undergraduate teaching in Spring 2018 for his class Econ 106G on Introduction to Game Theory. Game Theory provides a set of tools to study the interaction of multiple strategic agents. It can be used to analyze situations in which the objective […]
Brad Brutocao
Board of Visitors Mr. Brad Brutocao Partner Freeman Spogli & Co. Brad Brutocao is a Partner with Freeman Spogli & Co., a leading middle market private equity investment firm with approximately $3 billion in assets under management. Based in Los Angeles and with offices in New York, Freeman Spogli has invested in companies with aggregate […]
Bill Zame on Predicting Heart Failure
New algorithm more accurately predicts life expectancy after heart failure
Bill Simon receives My Last Lecture Award
The following is from today’s Daily Bruin. UCLA professor and 2002 California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon often dresses up as famous economic figures like J.P. Morgan for his classes. “A couple years after I ran for governor, a friend of mine asked me, what are you going to do now?” Simon said. “I said I’d […]
Andrew Atkeson Pierre-Olivier Weill in the Anderson Review
Andrew Atkeson and Pierre-Olivier Weill’s work on the impact of Dodd-Frank regulations is described in this Anderson Review article.
The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability
The sharing economy represents a set of peer-to-peer online marketplaces that facilitate matching between demanders and suppliers of various goods and services. The suppliers in these markets are often small (mostly individuals), and they often share excess capacity that might otherwise go unutilized. Economic theory would suggest that the sharing economy improves economic efficiency by […]
Jim Heckman gives MAE Distinguished Lecture
Yesterday, Nobel Prize winner, Professor Heckman, gave a MAE distinguished speaker lecture on “Policies to Promote Social Mobility”. Professor Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has conducted groundbreaking work with a consortium of economists, psychologists, sociologists, statisticians and neuroscientists showing that quality early childhood development […]
Wettbewerb und Wirtschaft interviews Volker Nocke
In its latest issue, the leading German antitrust law journal “Wettbewerb und Wirtschaft” is interviewing UCLA-professor Volker Nocke. The interview centers around the usefulness of the “as-efficient competitor test” for predation and foreclosure, which the European Court of Justice appears to endorse in its judgment in the Intel case; the role of economics in antitrust […]
