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2019 Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Scholarship Recipient Biography: Jiahe Wang is a third-year student at UCLA. Born in China, he moved to Los Angeles at the age of 18 to pursue undergraduate studies. He was admitted to the pre-business economics major as a freshman. However, after taking accounting classes, he developed an interest in accounting […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on the global economy. To cope with this unprecedented economic shock, many large US corporations turned to the $10 trillion corporate bond market. However, with the prospect of downgrades and possible defaults, along with widespread outflows from corporate bond funds, reports of illiquidity began to surface very early on: […]
“All these equations and graphs, how often am I going to use them at work anyway?” More likely than not, this question will have crossed your mind at some point in your undergraduate career, especially when you’re scratching your head over an elusive concept in lectures or working through pages of dense problem sets. But […]
With the help from UCLA Partnership, the UCLA Department of Economics is excited to announce the newly created and published Introduction to the UCLA Economics Department marketing video. This project has been months in the works–but we are super proud of this final product that we can share with all of you! Thank you to […]
Moshe Buchinsky was recently named a 2020 Econometric Society Fellow. The Econometric Society is one of the most prestigious learned society in the field of economics, with a world-wide membership. Its main object is to promote studies that aim at a unification of the theoretical and empirical approach to economic problems and that are penetrated by […]
Rosa Matzkin has been elected Second Vice-President of the Econometric Society. She will presumably become First Vice-President in 2022 and President in 2023. The Econometric Society is an international society for the advancement of economic theory in its relation to statistics and mathematics. Officers and New Fellows are elected each year by the current Fellows. […]
One of our newest faculty members, Martha Bailey, is hitting the ground running at UCLA with the funding of two new research proposals. The first is for the project, “Measuring Intergenerational Mobility in the US over the 20th Century,” funded by the Center for Equitable Growth and the Russell Sage Foundation. The project aims to […]
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