NBER Profile on Till von Wachter
The National Bureau of Economic Research featured Professor Till von Wachter in it’s biannual Bulletin on Aging and Health.
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Econ Major named PAC 12 All-Academic
/in NewsUCLA basketball center Tom Welsh and Economics major is named as PAC 12 All-Academic. Starting at 51:40, he talks about his favorite class (intermediate microeconomics!) and UCLA Basketball on the Bruin Insider show.
Board of Visitors’ Barry Eggers on Snapchat
/in NewsVenture capitalist Barry Eggers (BA ’85) is a member of our Board of Visitors, and frequent guest lecturer in Econ 106E and 106T. In this blog post he discusses how he discovered Snapchat five years ago, and went on to give them seed funding. Snapchat had its IPO yesterday.
Inference using Machine Learning
/in Research SpotlightMachine learning (ML) methods, developed mostly by computer scientists and statisticians, have brought remarkable success in solving prediction problems, especially with high-dimensional and complicated or, simply, big data. These methods have been used with great success, for example, in spam filtering and computer vision, among many other things. In economics, however, prediction problems are of […]
Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations
/in EDIBy Bernardo S. Silveira This paper empirically investigates how sentences to be assigned at trial impact plea bargaining. The analysis is based on the model of bargaining with asymmetric information by Bebchuk, 1984. I provide conditions for the nonparametric identification of the model, propose a consistent nonparametric estimator, and implement it using data on criminal […]
Pablo Fajgelbaum named Sloan Fellow
/in NewsPablo Fajgelbaum has been named as a 2017 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Professor Fajgelbaum specializes in international trade. His recent research includes the distributional effects of international trade, the impact of regional tax policies, and optimal transport networks in general-equilibrium trade models. His teaches international trade theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The […]
Richard Blundell gives MAE Lecture
/in NewsIn the second MAE Distinguished Speaker Lecture, Professor Richard Blundell of University College London talked about “Empirical Evidence and Tax Reform” The lecture’s starting point was the Mirrlees Review that brought together a high-profile group of international experts to identify the characteristics of a good tax system for any developed economy in the 21st century. Professor Blundell described a broad […]
The Long-Term Effects of Management and Technology Transfer
/in Research SpotlightA long-standing question in Economics is whether differences in performance across firms can be explained by differences in management practices, especially in developing countries where the spread between the best and worst firms is particularly large. Two major constraints have limited research on this topic. First, firms endogenously decide whether to adopt management practices, so […]
Simon Board wins Scoville Teaching Award
/in NewsThe winner of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for Fall 2016 is Simon Board. Professor Board teaches Econ 106T: The Economics of e-Commerce and Technology. The class uses tools from game theory to study business strategy, including topics such as platform markets, innovation and reputation. The course then uses these insights to discuss recent […]
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