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We’d like to congratulate Assistant Professor David Baqaee for being awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for his research titled “Macroeconomics as Explicitly Aggregated Microeconomics.” One of the biggest changes in economics in the 21st century is the increasing availability of comprehensive, high quality, micro-level data on households and firms. To utilize all this […]
The UCLA Anderson Review recently published the article, “Google Says to Hire the Best, but Suppose You Can’t?” written by Dee Gill. This article highlights the research currently being done by Simon Board, Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn, and Tomasz Sadzik on how top companies tend to “hog the best talent” and how this affects other firms. Below […]
How do different income taxation systems — for instance individual vs. joint — affect people’s decisions and welfare? Answering this question is important because governments can choose among several systems that differ most prominently for the treatment of individuals in married households. They can adopt an individual tax system, following the example of Canada and […]
“Never pass up on a free meal” might sound like cheeky advice for a college student struggling to get by but for Aaron Behle it means something entirely different. In fall of his Junior year in the UCLA Economics program, the family member of a friend who worked at Ernst and Young invited Aaron to […]
The UCLA Department of Economics would like to congratulate Adriana Lleras-Muney for being awarded the Warren C. Scoville Distinguished Teaching Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2019 for her class Econ 130–Public Finance. This course explores the role of governments in the economy. It analyzes why governments intervene in some markets and not others […]
Professor Michela Giorcelli has been named a winner of a 2020 Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. The other award winners are Luigi Bocola (Stanford), Teodora Boneva (Oxford), and Javier Cravino (Michigan and former UCLA Ph.D. student). The aim of the Excellence Award is “to build a […]
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