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2018 Harold R. Mortenson Endowed Scholarship Recipient Biography: Zhidong Guo is a senior student at UCLA majoring in Business Economics and Mathematics. Also, he is pursuing a Master’s Degree in Economics at the same time through the Departmental Scholar Program. Born in China, he’s a transfer student from East LA Community College. During his study […]
2018 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Recipient Biography: Kristin Dermenjian is a fourth-year Business Economics major. A Los Angeles native, she grew up in Glendale and attended Glendale Community College before transferring to UCLA. While at GCC, she published her own research and presented at conferences at Stanford, UC Irvine, and UC […]
2018 John J. Peterson Scholarship Recipient Biography: Roya Dadgar is a third year Business Economics major and Public Affairs minor. She is part of the executive board of a consulting club on campus, UConsulting, and oversees the external affairs of the club. She also plays club tennis and mentors high school students in financial literacy. […]
2018 Professor Henry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient Biography: Haomin Chi is currently a senior with a Business Economics major and an Accounting minor. As a transfer student from De Anza College, he believes that university experience can significantly enhance his overall ability and guide him toward the actual business world. After coming to UCLA, he […]
2018 Jeffrey W. Baus ’59 Scholarship Recipient Biography: Anqi Chen is a third year student double majoring in business economics, piano performance and minoring in accounting. She was born in China and moved to Italy at age 12. She is fluent in three languages and is proud of her multicultural background. She started her college […]
Denis Chetverikov has been named as a 2019 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Denis Chetverikov is a theoretical econometrician with broad interests. His worked has greatly enhanced our understanding of high dimensional and nonparametric models – an area often referred to as “big data”. Among his most important contributions are the high dimensional […]
A recent article in the Financial Times leans heavily on research from UCLA Professor Lee Ohanian. According to the piece, “How the US actually financed the second world war,” the US raised taxes on capital from 44 to 60 percent during the second world war. Further, labour taxes doubled, from 9 to 18 percent. According […]
The UCLA Department of Economics congratulates Professor Michela Giorcelli for winning the Scoville Award for best undergraduate teaching in Fall 2018 for her class Econ 181, Development of Economic Institutions in Western Europe. This course applies economic theory and quantitative reasoning to study the economic history of Western Europe from the 18th to the 20th […]
By Till von Wachter, Jae Song, David J Price, Fatih Guvenen and Nicholas Bloom We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one-third of the rise in the variance of (log) earnings occurred […]
This article by Lee Ohanian originally appeared in The Hill. Last week, 31,000 Los Angeles Unified School District teachers represented by the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) union went on strike for the first time in 30 years. Substitute teachers and administrators make up a skeleton crew that is keeping schools open, and about […]
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