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Congratulations to Berkeley Economics student Will Alexander '20, for winning the Owen D. Young Prize in International Relations. The award is awarded for the best essay on international relations. Read about the award here.
A new NBER Working Paper by Berkeley Economics professors Christina Romer and David Romer shows that countries with lower debt-to-GDP ratios respond to financial distress with much more expansionary fiscal policy & suffer much less severe aftermaths, driven more by policymaker choices than true debt constraints. Read more
NPR's Planet Money episode "Economics, Sexism, Data" discusses a study by Berkeley Economics undergrad Alice Wu, which uncovered rampant bias in the Economics Job Market Rumors forum. Listen to the podcast here.
Congratulations to the winners of the undergraduate and graduate annual awards. View the list of award-winning students here.
Congratulations of Berkeley Economics Professor David Card who has been nominated to be the President of American Economic Association (AEA). Read More
On Cal Day 2019, Professor Zucman presented on the topic of "Globalization, Taxes, and Inequality" to an audience of students and their families as well as the broader Berkeley community. View Video