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Nate Barlow, a graduate student in the UCLA economics department has won the Economic History Early Stage Dissertation Grant for his project on reparations paid to Japanese internees. The grant is awarded to the most promising dissertations in economic history.
UCLA Professors Simon Board and Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn received the American Economic Journal (AEJ) Best Paper Award for their paper ‘A Reputational Theory of Firm Dynamics’ published in the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics in 2022. The annual AEJ Best Paper Award is given to the best paper published in each of the American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic […]
1898-1989 Professor Emeritus With the death of Dudley F. Pegrum in June 1989, at age 91, UCLA lost another of its pioneering professors. A native of Canada, Professor Pegrum earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees at the University of Alberta in the early 1920s. After receiving his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, in […]
Professor Martha Bailey was elected a fellow of the cliometric society. Fellows must have published contributions to economic history that are markedly original and have significantly advanced the frontiers of knowledge. A complete list of Fellows can be found here.
A paper by UCLA Professor Pierre-Olivier Weill studying bond trading was featured in the February issue of NBER Digest. The paper finds that, in addition to the characteristics of a bond trade request, the characteristics of the bond trader are important in determining the time to consummating a trade and the failure rate. The February […]
By Joao Guerreiro The short stories in Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot” discussed some of the dilemmas associated with artificial intelligence (AI). New developments in AI technology have brought these concerns from the pages of science-fiction stories to the forefront of policy discussions. In May 2023, a global AI consortium declared AI risks a priority, similar […]
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