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The allure of the investment industry has long attracted numerous successful UCLA alumni. For Gary Ghazarian, it was no exception. With over 25 years’ experience in the field, he currently serves as the Director of Operations for Marketable Securities at leading alternative investment firm Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. Having pursued a degree in Economics at […]
The UCLA Economics Department is very happy to be joined by three new faculty this year. Volker Nocke joins us from Mannheim as a Full Professor. Professor Nocke is an expert in Industrial Economics and International Trade. Much of his recent work has been concerned with mergers and competition policy. He has published in […]
For the long term health of Social Security, it it important to make projections about future participation in the U.S. labor force. To understand this further, the Social Security Advisory Board appointed a Technical Panel of prominent labor economists that includes UCLA Professor, Kathleen McGarry. The final report shows that the secular decrease in participation rates for […]
After nearly thirty years in the Economics Department, we are sad to lose former Chair, Roger Farmer, who will be taking up a new position in the U.K.. Professor Farmer grew up in England, obtained his Ph.D. at Western Ontario and joined UCLA in 1988. Since then he has risen to become a Distinguished Professor, serving […]
We wish to congratulate the Department of Economics Class of 2017. We wish our graduates the best of luck in their future endeavors. On Saturday, June 17, 2017, approximately 800 students graduated from our Department, with Bachelors degrees in Economics, Business Economics, and Mathematics/Economics. These students are going in to consulting, tech, and banking jobs, […]
Martin Hackmann’s article titled “The Return to Nursing: Evidence from a Parental Leave Program” was featured in the latest edition of the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health. The NBER article discusses the difficulties of quantifying nurses’ contributions to patient health. The article then cites Professor Hackmann’s article as a much needed study to fill […]
2005 Professor Harry Simons Endowed Undergraduate Scholarship for the Study of Accounting Recipient Biography: Masuma is an international student from New Delhi, India. Hailing from a middle class family it was always her desire to pursue her higher education in the United States. Being the only child it was tough for her parents to send […]
2005 Business Economics Scholarship Recipient Biography: Tara Syed is a 4th year Business Economics major and will be graduating in June of 2006. She is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to return there upon graduation. She is very interested in community service, and is an active member of the Bruin […]
2005 Jeffrey W. Baus ’59 Scholarship Recipient Biography: Qingling came from China to the U.S. four years ago. After attending two years of junior college- Cerro-Coso Community College and Antelope Valley College, she transferred to UCLA in the fall 2004. She is currently a fourth year Business Economics major with a minor in Accounting and […]
2005 The Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Scholarship Recipient Biography: Jennifer Sihn is currently a fourth-year student at UCLA majoring in Business Economics and minoring in Accounting. Future Plans: After graduating from UCLA, Jennifer plans to work as a Senior Auditor at Ernst & Young. In the long run, she hopes to go to law school […]
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