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We are very sorry to report that our long-time colleague and friend, Steven Goldman, passed away in April. Steve was a leading contributor to research in mathematical economics and economic theory, an avid golfer and technophile, and a major contributor to Berkeley Economics since his arrival in 1965. He will be greatly missed. An obituary can be found at the link.
It is with great sadness that we report the death of our colleague, Suzanne Scotchmer, at the end of January. Suzanne, who had joint appointments with the Boalt School of Law and Goldman School of Public Policy, was an expert in industrial organization, public finance, law and economics, and economic theory, including work on the economics of innovation and intellectual property rights. Her connection to the Economics Department goes back to her days as a doctoral student here in the late 1970's. An online discussion of her contributions can be found at the link.
Janet Yellen named to lead Fed (Article)
Edward Miguel's recent publication in Science on the relationship between climate change and human conflict is discussed on NPR. Read the UC Berkeley press release.
NYTimes (Update) published about Professors Patrick Kline and Emmanuel Saez work on a research project The Equality of Opportunity Project with former Berkeley colleague Raj Chetty, and Nathaniel Hendren at Harvard.
Fred Finan and Yuriy Gorodnichenko receive the 2013 Sloan Research Fellows.