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How can we untangle beliefs from tastes in everyday decision-making? A hiring manager may reject a minority job applicant because he believes the candidate is unqualified or because of a personal bias against working with minorities. An admissions officer may reject a minority student because he believes the student is academically weak or because of […]
This originally appeared in the August 24, 2018 print edition of the Wall Street Journal By Edward C. Presscott and Lee E. Ohanian. Lee E. Ohanian is a Professor of Economics, and Director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at UCLA. The economy isn’t on a “sugar high.” Pro-market policy improved incentives to work […]
Adriana Lleras-Muney, Professor of Economics at UCLA, was recently elected to the Nominating Committee of the Population Association of America (PAA). The PAA is a nonprofit, scientific, professional organization established to promote the improvement, advancement, and progress of the human condition through research of problems related to human population. Members of the PAA include demographers, […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is pleased to announce the appointment of David Baqaee as Assistant Professor. David received his Ph.D. from Harvard and worked previously at the London School of Economics. He works on aggregation in disaggregated macroeconomic models, with an emphasis on the role production networks play in business cycles, growth, and international […]
Board of Visitors Jason Mozingo Managing Principal Passkey Investors, LLC Jason Mozingo is a private equity and credit investment professional with 20+ years of investing experience across multiple industries. He is the Managing Principal for Passkey Investors, LLC, a family-office evaluating and making investments in the consumer sector. From 2006-2017, Jason was with Centerbridge Partners, […]
We would like to congratulate Professor Tomasz Sadzik for winning the Scoville Award for best undergraduate teaching in Spring 2018 for his class Econ 106G on Introduction to Game Theory. Game Theory provides a set of tools to study the interaction of multiple strategic agents. It can be used to analyze situations in which the objective […]
The UCLA Department of Economics is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Emeritus Masanao Aoki (May 14, 1931—July 24, 2018), he was 87 years old. Professor Aoki earned a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Tokyo, and he earned a PhD in engineering from UCLA in 1960. He taught engineering at […]
Board of Visitors Mr. Brad Brutocao Partner Freeman Spogli & Co. Brad Brutocao is a Partner with Freeman Spogli & Co., a leading middle market private equity investment firm with approximately $3 billion in assets under management. Based in Los Angeles and with offices in New York, Freeman Spogli has invested in companies with aggregate […]
David Baqaee is a Professor of Economics. His research focuses on aggregation and heterogeneity in macroeconomics. Recent projects have focused on how resource misallocation, due to market power, nominal rigidities, or increasing returns to scale, affect aggregate productivity. His work has been published in Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, […]
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