Congratulations to our Spring 2021 Undergraduate Essay Contest winner, Arman Marchiel! ARMAN MARCHIEL – MAY 8TH, 2021 With a death toll of over 560,000 people, the U.S. will never be Continue Reading
JAIDE LIN – MAY 4TH, 2021 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG Introduction Ever since the first Bitcoin transaction occurred in 2010 when a Florida man bought two Papa John’s pizzas with 10,000 Continue Reading
RIA BHANDARKAR – MAY 3RD, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Fertility rates drive social, economic, and cultural trends, and current events determine fertility. That simple trend can seem terrifying since all Continue Reading
VASANTH KUMAR – APRIL 30TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEBASTIAN MARSHALL The COVID-19 recession and subsequent policy response have made Jerome Powell an important authority figure. Financiers, economists, and business leaders alike Continue Reading
SZE YU – APRIL 28TH, 2021 Professor Visaria is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on development economics and Continue Reading
CHAZEL HAKIM – APRIL 23RD, 2021 Nicholas Otis (“Nick” throughout this interview) is a current graduate student in health economics at UC Berkeley. His research interests revolve around developmental and Continue Reading
ANI BANERJEE – APRIL 14TH, 2021 EDITOR: DIVYA VEMULAPALLI In The Beginning, There Was Trade This is possibly the most familiar of all stories about modern Asia: a once poor Continue Reading
RIA BHANDARKAR – APRIL 12TH, 2021 Professor Derenoncourt is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Continue Reading
VAIDEHI BULUSU – APRIL 8TH, 2021 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Achieving behavioral change is a puzzle that economists, environmentalists, psychologists, politicians, and public health professionals alike are trying to crack. The Continue Reading
PETER ZHANG – APRIL 7TH, 2021 Professor Don A. Moore is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair in Leadership and Communication at Berkeley Haas and serves as Associate Dean for Academic Continue Reading
