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Michela Giorcelli wins Cole Grant

Professor Michela Giorcelli was awarded the Cole Research Grants-in-Aid for post-Doctoral Research by the Economic History Association for her project on “The Marshall Plan and the European and US Economies After WWII”. The Cole Grants are annually awarded to recent Ph.D. recipients to support research in economic history.

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Danwei Chen

2016 Robert D. & Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship Recipient Biography: Danwei Chen is a third-year student at UCLA pursuing a major in Economics and minor in Accounting. Having completed elementary through high school in Wisconsin, she is enjoying discovering all that Los Angeles has to offer. Danwei currently works for the Laurence and Lori […]

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Econ Major named PAC 12 All-Academic

UCLA basketball center Tom Welsh and Economics major is named as PAC 12 All-Academic. Starting at 51:40, he talks about his favorite class (intermediate microeconomics!) and UCLA Basketball on the Bruin Insider show.  

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Board of Visitors’ Barry Eggers on Snapchat

Venture capitalist Barry Eggers  (BA ’85)  is a member of our Board of Visitors, and frequent guest lecturer in Econ 106E and 106T. In this blog post he discusses how he discovered Snapchat five years ago, and went on to give them seed funding. Snapchat had its IPO yesterday.        

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Inference using Machine Learning

Machine learning (ML) methods, developed mostly by computer scientists and statisticians, have brought remarkable success in solving prediction problems, especially with high-dimensional and complicated or, simply, big data. These methods have been used with great success, for example, in spam filtering and computer vision, among many other things. In economics, however, prediction problems are of […]

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Bargaining with Asymmetric Information: An Empirical Study of Plea Negotiations

By Bernardo S. Silveira This paper empirically investigates how sentences to be assigned at trial impact plea bargaining. The analysis is based on the model of bargaining with asymmetric information by Bebchuk, 1984. I provide conditions for the nonparametric identification of the model, propose a consistent nonparametric estimator, and implement it using data on criminal […]

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Pablo Fajgelbaum named Sloan Fellow

Pablo Fajgelbaum has been named as a 2017 Sloan Fellow, one of eight economists nationwide. Professor Fajgelbaum specializes in international trade. His recent research includes the distributional effects of international trade, the impact of regional tax policies, and optimal transport networks in general-equilibrium trade models. His teaches international trade theory at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The […]