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I School's first endowed chair will be The Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics (Article)
Edward Miguel receives the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award.
Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for the Obama Administration, will be returning to the department during the Fall 2010 semester.
Emmanuel Saez was named a 2010 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, in recognition of his path-breaking work on income inequality and in public economics and tax policy.
UC Berkeley's economics department ranked highly (between number 3 and 7) in new NRC ranking of graduate programs.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko was awarded the Montias prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Economics in the last 2 years.