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The Sharing Economy and Housing Affordability

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The sharing economy represents a set of peer-to-peer online marketplaces that facilitate matching between demanders and suppliers of various goods and services.  The suppliers in these markets are often small (mostly individuals), and they often share excess capacity that might otherwise go unutilized.  Economic theory would suggest that the sharing economy improves economic efficiency by […]

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Steven Laub

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Like many of our Bruins, former alumni Steven Laub embodies the traits of passion, determination, and resilience. These are the very same traits that shaped his illustrious career as a former consultant and top executive at numerous public semiconductor companies such as Lattice Semiconductor, Silicon Image and until recently, the Atmel Corporation where Laub served […]

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Rosa Matzkin elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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UCLA professor of economics Rosa Matzkin is among 213 individuals from a wide range of disciplines and professions to be elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. Founded in 1780, the academy honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing […]

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Jim Heckman gives MAE Distinguished Lecture

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Yesterday, Nobel Prize winner, Professor Heckman, gave a MAE distinguished speaker lecture on “Policies to Promote Social Mobility”. Professor Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has conducted groundbreaking work with a consortium of economists, psychologists, sociologists, statisticians and neuroscientists showing that quality early childhood development […]

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Sule Ozler Publishes New Book

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Professor Sule Ozler has published a new book with Routledge Press titled “Psychoanalytic Studies of the Work of Adam Smith: Towards a Theory of Moral Development and Social Relations.”  Congratulations Sule!

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Wettbewerb und Wirtschaft interviews Volker Nocke

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In its latest issue, the leading German antitrust law journal “Wettbewerb und Wirtschaft” is interviewing UCLA-professor Volker Nocke. The interview centers around the usefulness of the “as-efficient competitor test” for predation and foreclosure, which the European Court of Justice appears to endorse in its judgment in the Intel case; the role of economics in antitrust […]

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Stephanie Dong

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2017 John. J. Peterson Scholarship Recipient Biography: Stephanie Dong is a junior pursuing a major in business economics and minors in accounting and statistics. She is also an Achievement Scholar and college honors student. She is currently involved in undergraduate research under Professor Mark Grinblatt (UCLA Anderson School of Management), investigating factors that affect stock […]

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Haoran Zhang

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2017 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: Haoran Zhang is a senior student at UCLA with a major in Business Economics and minor in Accounting. As a transfer student from Santa Monica College, she believes that university education further enhances her capability and lead she toward the right […]