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The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) recently announced Berkeley Economics Professors Maurice Obstfeld and Christina Romer among the list of Distinguished Fellows. Distinguished Fellows can participate in research and policy conferences and advise CEPR leadership. Read more

Published by Hagit Hagit Caspi Wed, 2020-01-22 10:11

Registration Open for Pacific Conference for the Development Economics (PacDev) which will take place at UC Berkeley on Mar. 14th, 2020. organized by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA).  Seating is limited- register here.

Published by Hagit Hagit Caspi Mon, 2020-01-13 10:34

What's the most useful idea in economics?  NPR's Planet covers the 2020 AEA conference, talking among others to Mary Daly's SF Feds, Prof. Lisa Cook (Ph.D. '97), Berkeley Economics Professor Brad Delong, and many others. Listen here

Photo: Craig Huey/©2020 American Economic Association

Published by Hagit Hagit Caspi Mon, 2020-01-13 09:56

It is absurd that the working class is now paying higher tax rates than the richest people in America, argue Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman in this Op-Ed for the New York Times. Read more (Illustration by Alex Merto)

Published by Hagit Hagit Caspi Wed, 2019-12-11 10:01

Research on labor in boardrooms by Berkeley economics professor Benjamin Schoefer highlighted on NPR's Here and Now. The research found that companies become more productive when they put workers on their boards. Read the article and listen to the interview here

Published by Hagit Hagit Caspi Wed, 2019-12-11 09:56

Michael Kremer, Berkeley Economics Prof. Ted Miguel’s former Ph.D. adviser at Harvard University, won the 2019 Nobel prize in Economics. To recognize Miguel’s contribution to the winners’ “experimental approach to alleviating poverty,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has invited him to the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet in Stockholm, Sweden, in December. Read the interview with Prof. Miguel here (Via Berkeley News)

Published by Hagit Hagit Caspi Tue, 2019-12-10 16:11

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