The UCLA Department of Economics wants to congratulate Professor Andy Atkeson for recently being appointed co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Editors at the JPE are typically from the University of Chicago, so the appointment of Professor Atkeson is particularly unusual, and an acknowledgement of his standing in the profession and his editorial judgement. […]
Congratulations to Pierre-Olivier Weill, the winner of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2021! Pierre-Olivier Weill won this award while teaching ECON 106V: Investments. This course introduces the principles of investment and portfolio theory. Topics include optimal portfolio construction, fixed income analysis, option pricing theory, and active portfolio […]
A big congratulations to UCLA Professor Oleg Itskhoki for winning The Midwest Finance Association Best Paper Award in Asset Pricing for his paper “Mussa Puzzle Redux”, with Dmitry Mukhin (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Mussa (1986) documented a sharp simultaneous increase in the volatility of both nominal and real exchange rates after the end of the Bretton Woods […]
Troy Aikman isn’t the only Bruin who has helped Fox Sports become one of the leaders in sports entertainment. Behind the scenes, another UCLA graduate works tirelessly on the sports fans know and love. Claudia Martinez hails from the San Fernando Valley in California where she was raised in a household with a father who […]
On Tuesday, the Department of Economics installed Professor Simon Board as the inaugural holder of the Benjamin Graham Centennial Chair in Value Investing. This new Chair helps strengthen our Value Investing Program, which teaches students how to value stocks, with a commitment to objectivity, rationality and a heavy dose of humility. In his talk, Professor […]
Below is a reminiscence for Professor Bill Allen, who passed away on January 15, 2021, from former student Suheil Kawar (UCLA Econ Ph.D. – 1974). Dear Dr. Costa, May I start by telling you how much I appreciate your efforts at maintaining contact with graduates of the UCLA Economics Program and enjoy reading about […]
On April 7, 2021, the Adam Smith Society held a lively debate on the merits and drawbacks of raising the minimum wage with UCLA professor Lee Ohanian and MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, moderated by the Wall Street Journal’s Eric Morath. (Hosted by CMU Tepper and Pitt Katz chapters.) The Adam Smith Society works to provide a venue where this discussion of […]
UCLA’s Martha J. Bailey, along with Brenden D. Timpe & Shuqiao Sun, had their paper Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency featured in the April 2021 issue of The NBER Digest. The paper evaluates the long-run effects of Head Start using large-scale, restricted 2000-2018 Census-ACS data […]
2020 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Award Recipient Biography: Christine Tseng is a third-year Pure Mathematics and Economics double major. Having seen education rescue her immigrant parents from a life of poverty in the countryside of Taiwan, Christine grew up in awe of the unparalleled power of education and now strives […]
2020 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Recipient Biography: Ellie Taraska is a third year Economics major, who is hoping to double major in Statistics. She is from Boston, Massachusetts but now considers Los Angeles her home. On campus, Ellie currently serves as the Vice President of Finance for UCLA Panhellenic and […]
