Founded in 1903, our department is well-known for the excellence of its teaching and advising, with a strong reputation for producing outstanding Ph.D. graduates, as well as rigorous and innovative economic research. We are consistently ranked among the world's leading departments. Berkeley faculty have won five Nobel Prizes, five John Bates Clark Medals, two MacArthur Foundation Fellows and twenty-three Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships (including an average of one per year since 1995). The impact Berkeley faculty have had on various fields of economics has been enormous. Our department is currently at the forefront of many exciting new developments in economics. This year we are pleased to add Professors Andres Rodriguez-Clare and Haluk Ergin to our dynamic and diverse faculty. In addition, we are excited that Benjamin Handel will join our faculty as well, after completing his program as a Robert Wood Johnson scholar in Health Policy Research at Berkeley.
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Christina Romer offers young academics solace, sense and secrets. (Article) |
| Economics places 4th in the Tilburg University Economics Ranking. |
| Thomas J. Sargent, former UC Berkeley undergraduate, awarded Nobel Prize in Economics. (Article) (Thomas J. Sargent’s 2007 Commencement Speech) |
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Emmanuel Saez, Director of the Center for Equitable Growth, speaks out on income inequality.(Article) |
| Econ Grad discovers $2 trillion mistake. |
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Emmanuel Saez wins AEA’s first American Economic Journal: Economic Policy “Best Paper Prize,” for “Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?” (Article) |
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Carl Shapiro to be President Barack Obama's nominee as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors, as announced on February 23, 2011. (Press Release) |
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Yuriy Gorodnichenko is one of the prize winners of the Excellence Award in Global Economic Affairs for 2011. |
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Yuriy Gorodnichenko was awarded the Montias prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Economics in the last 2 years. |
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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. |
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Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for the Obama Administration, will be returning to the department during the Fall 2010 semester. (Press Release) |
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Emmanuel Saez was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for 2010. |