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New estimates of U.S. economic growth released by Professors Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez show, for the first time, how growth was distributed between rich and lower-income Americans in 2015 and 2016. Read more.
Pakistan Names IMF Economist as Central Bank Head Amid Bailout. The newly appointed Reza Baqir received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 2000. He was previously the IMF's resident representative in Egypt. Read more [Via Bloomberg]
A report conducted by student research with Professor Clair Brown shows the financial risk of CalPERS holding fossil fuel assets, and lays out the economic argument for divestment from those assets. Read the report here.
This ceiling on the feasible level of interest rates means that when the next recession hits, central banks will have little scope for reducing them, says Professor Barry Eichengreen in his article for The Guardian. Read more
Photograph: Frank Augstein/AP
Berkeley Economics Professor Emmanuel Saez has been awarded an honorary degree, joining a prestigious group of recipients that includes the chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, Drew Faust, an editor, a museum director, and distinguished professors. Read more
Congratulations to Prof. Dmitry Taubinsky for being honored with the Hellman Award. Established by Warren & Chris Hellman and their children in 1994, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their chosen fields of endeavor. Read more about the Hellman Fellows Fund here.