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Welcome New Faculty Members

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The Department of Economics is pleased to introduce our new faculty members: Assistant Professor Youssef Benzarti (Ph.D. 2016, University of California, Berkeley) Assistant Professor Michela Giorcelli (Ph.D. 2016, Stanford University) Assistant Professor Martin Hackmann (Ph.D. 2014, Yale University, previously an Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University) Also joining us this year as a Visiting Professor […]

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New book by Roger Farmer

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Professor Roger Farmer’s new book, Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises, was published this month by Oxford University Press. The book is available on Amazon. Learn more about the book on his website. In my book Prosperity for All: How to Prevent Financial Crises,I draw on evidence not just from the 1930s, but also from […]

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UCLA Economists awarded NSF Grants

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John Asker won an NSF Grant entitled “Market Power and Resource Allocation” to examine how the global oil cartel OPEC impacts productive efficiency. Denis Chetverikov and Zhipeng Liao also won an NSF grant entitled “Cross-Validation for High-Dimensional and Nonparametric Models in Econometrics” to study how to select a smoothing parameter for Lasso estimators that are commonly used to estimate […]

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Congratulations 2016 Scoville Teaching Award winners

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The department would like to congratulate the 2016 winners of the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Spring 2016 Tomasz Sadzik – Econ 106G “Introduction to Game Theory” Winter 2016 Jay Lu – Econ 148 “Behavioral Economics” Fall 2015 Lee Ohanian – Econ 165 “History of American Capitalism”