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Please join us for a conversation with Professor Ulrike Malmendier, Professor Catherine Wolfram, and Dean Ann Harrison on February 14. In this fireside chat, Harrison, who is the Bank of America Dean of the Haas School and who previously served as Director of Development for the World Bank, will interview Malmendier and Wolfram on their experiences advising world leaders and efforts to improve public policy during this tumultuous economic and political period. The conversation will touch on the current state of the U.S. and global economies, their efforts to work for sustainable economic and energy policy, as well as what motivated their moves from academia to the public sector. Register
Cultural stereotypes of multinational banks: A new column co-authored by George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science Barry Eichengreen uses hand-collected data on banks’ investments in European sovereign debt to show that trust importantly influences cross-border investment. Read more
CLIMB-Evergreen invites you to join "Conformal Inference When Data is Not Exchangeable", a hybrid seminar with Prof. Emmanuel Candès, Stanford University Wednesday, January 18, 11:00am - 12:00pm PT, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall (Banatao Auditorium). Read more
"Each day in the classroom, we encounter remarkably bright and hard-working students who exhibit a real compass for thinking about how their education will enable them to have a social impact." Read the year-end message from former Chief Economist and Development Chair at Berkeley Economics, Professor Danny Yagan. Read more
Tune in to listen to the Matrix Podcast, featuring an interview with Adriana D. Kugler Ph.D. '97, the World Bank Group Executive Director for the United States. Dr. Kugler was appointed by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate in May 2022. She is the first Latinx person and first Jewish woman to be appointed to this position since the foundation of the World Bank in 1944. The interview was conducted by Danny Yagan, Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, who is on leave as Chief Economist of the Office of Management and Budget. Read more
"Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation," a new paper by UC Berkeley's Stone Center directors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, as well as Thomas Piketty, reviews recent developments in the theory and practice of optimal capital taxation, recommending progressive inheritance tax, in addition to progressive income and wealth taxes. Read more