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Andrew J. Demetriou

Board of Visitors   Mr. Andrew J. Demetriou Partner Lamb & Kawakami LLP Andy Demetriou is both a lawyer and consultant to institutional health care providers and other companies involved in the delivery of healthcare services on corporate matters.  In his law practice he has been lead counsel in merger and acquisition, joint venture and […]

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George Kettner

Board of Visitors   Mr. George Kettner President Economic Systems, Inc. Dr. George Kettner heads up Economics Systems Inc., a 75-person management consulting and software development company in Falls Church, Virginia. His work focuses on facilitating the strategic decision-making of top management, human resource (HR) management, advanced analytics, disability employment policy and research, and program […]

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Andre James

Board of Visitors     Mr. Andre James Senior Partner Bain & Company Andre James is a Senior Partner in Bain & Company’s Los Angeles office.  He has advised media & entertainment clients across the globe for the past 16 years and currently heads Bain’s Media & Entertainment Practice in the Americas. Mr. James has […]

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Vedika Sanghai

John J. Peterson Scholarship Scholarship Recipient Biography: Vedika Sanghai is a third year double majoring in Business Economics and Psychology with a minor in Entrepreneurship. She was born and brought up in Mumbai, India and moved to Los Angeles 3 years ago to pursue her education. She is interested in various fields such as Consulting, […]

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Devaluation Risk and the Real Economy

A pertinent form of economic uncertainty for developing countries today is that of devaluation risk: the possibility of a large decrease in the value of a country’s currency relative to other currencies. It is difficult to measure the impact of economic and political uncertainty on the economy because changes in uncertainty are often the result of […]

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Barry Eggers

Barry Eggers (’85) is a founding partner at Lightspeed Ventures, a venture capitalist firm which focuses largely on IT and Technology start-ups (If that name rings a bell, it is because a few years ago they seed funded a little known company called Snapchat). What most don’t know is that his journey, which led him to […]

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Adriana Lleras-Muney in Vox and The New York Times

Adriana Lleras-Muney’s co-authored article on mothers’ pensions has been cited in two national news outlets this month, The New York Times and Vox.  The New York Times article cites Lleras-Muney’s study in an article about supply side economics, while Vox draws upon her research in connection to child poverty in the U.S..  Professor Lleras-Muney’s paper […]

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Jay Lu wins Winter 2017 Scoville Teaching Award

We would like to congratulate Jay Lu for winning the Scoville Award for best undergraduate teaching in Winter 2017 for his class Econ 148 on Behavioral Economics. Behavioral economics is a subfield of economics that incorporates insights from psychology and other social sciences. The broad goal is to improve the realism of economic models by […]

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2017 West Coast Experiments Conference

The tenth annual West Coast Experiments Conference was co-organized by Professor Rodrigo Pinto. The Conference was held at UCLA on April 24-25, 2017, preceded by in-depth methods training workshops on Sunday, April 23.  The West Coast Experiments Conference is an annual conference that brings together leading scholars and graduate students in economics, political science, and other […]