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Generous support from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation establishes a new center for Wealth and Income Inequality at the Department of Economics. The center will be led by Gabriel Zucman, professor of economics and public policy at UC Berkeley, and Emmanuel Saez, professor of economics and director of Berkeley’s Center for Equitable Growth. Read more
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Berkeley Economics Professor Emi Nakamura's interview with The Chronicle about her research, the importance of the Federal Reserve, and women in the economics field. Read more
Announcing the 2019 class of academic grants and grantees from the Washington Center for equitable Growth: This year, more than $1 million in grants will be awarded to 33 U.S. scholars and 15 doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars researching key issues related to economic inequality and growth. Congratulations to Berkeley Economics faculty and doctoral students: Hilary Hoynes, Benjamin Schoefer, Ellora Derenoncour, Ingrid Haegele, and Krista Ruffini, who will receive funding to support research on inequality. Read more
Coming up on September 13: Conversation with Nobel Prize Laureate José Manuel Barroso, former president of the European Commission and former prime minister. Barroso will discuss economic and political changes and challenges facing Europe. Barroso will be joined on stage by Berkeley Economics Professor Maurice Obstfeld and Institute of European Studies Director Jeroen Dewulf. Presented by the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy and the European Union Center. Read more
Former IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld and NatAlliance Securities’ Andy Brenner discuss President Trump’s attack against the Federal Reserve amid trade war worries. View the video via Fox Business
Inequality is worse than economists previously thought, according to Berkeley Economics professor Gabriel Zucman and fellow researchers. Their work shows how much standard measurements are off when tax evasion is taken into account. Read more about their research, featured in the June issue of The American Economic Review. Read more