UCSB Economics

UCSB Economics Department brings you Nick Bloom from Stanford University. Time: 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Thursday, April 23, 2020 Location: Loma Pelona

Professor Bob Anderson unpacks economics (specifically accounting) and explains why it is not actually a difficult subject. He talks about his own personal experience with accounting and teaching.

UC Santa Barbara’s Economics Professor Christopher Costello, research concludes, that nearly half of the fish caught worldwide come from stocks that are scientifically monitored and, on average, are increasing in abundance.

The Department of Economics at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for the Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics at the Associate or Full Professor level with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2020. This Chair was established to promote excellence in research in UC Santa Barbara’s Economics Department and to foster connections between the Department of Economics and the Technology Management Program in order to support UC Santa Barbara’s existing or future entrepreneurship programs.

UCSB alum Serena Canann, current UCSB Ph.D. ​Student Antoine Deeb, and Pierre Mouganie report on a natural experiment in which undergraduates are randomly assigned to faculty advisors. They show that having a good advisor makes an important difference to college students success.

2019 graduate Sarah Bana won honorable mention in the Upjohn Institute dissertation competition.