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Alexander Bloedel is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCLA. He is an economic theorist studying topics in information economics, mechanism design, dynamic games, and bounded rationality. His recent research focuses on (i) costly information acquisition/processing (e.g., “rational inattention”) in both single-agent and strategic settings, and (ii) dynamic incentive problems with applications in macroeconomics and […]
Lee Ohanian discussed California’s housing crisis and potential policy remedies on a podcast available here.
By Hugo Hopenhayn During the last 40 years, the US economy has been experiencing a series of trends that have captured the attention of economists, public policy, and media. Firstly, there has been a sharp decline in the rate of growth of labor force, following a similar decline in fertility rates. Secondly, there has been […]
Mila Skulkina, class of 2001 has lived a storied life. In this profile she shares her UCLA story and how lessons learned on campus have impacted her career. When Mila was a teenager in the 1990s, she and her father emigrated to the United States from Moscow. She had a rudimentary knowledge of the English […]
by Guido Tabellini I first learnt about Axel when I was an undergraduate student in Italy in the late 1970s. His strange surname was easy to remember, but there were much deeper reasons to pay attention to him than just his surname. These were the times of the debate between Monetarists and Keynesians, and Axel’s […]
By David K. Levine Axel Leijonhufvud was a gentleman and a scholar. As an undergraduate at UCLA my first class in macroeconomics was from Axel and I later had the pleasure of knowing him as a colleague and a friend.Axel well understood that what we do as economists is less to create ideas than to […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is sad to announce that Axel Leijonhufvud (1933-2022) passed away on May 2nd 2022. Axel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and obtained his bachelor degree at the University of Lund. After coming to the United States in 1960, he earned an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. […]
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