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"The tools Zucman has identified...challenge a series of assumptions, fiercely held by many economists and policymakers, about how the world works.". Read more about Gabriel Zucman's work and his next publication with Emmanuel Saez. [Via Bloomberg]
Berkeley Economics Professor Dmitry Taubinsky, along with economists from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, developed a cost-benefit analysis and suggested that a federal tax on soda at a rate between 1 and 2.1 cents an ounce would be the “optimal” tax with the greatest public benefit. "A national tax on soda would yield as much as $7 billion a year in net welfare to society," concluded the researchers. Read more
Congratulations to Berkeley Economics student Will Alexander '20, for winning the Owen D. Young Prize in International Relations. The award is awarded for the best essay on international relations. Read about the award here.
A new NBER Working Paper by Berkeley Economics professors Christina Romer and David Romer shows that countries with lower debt-to-GDP ratios respond to financial distress with much more expansionary fiscal policy & suffer much less severe aftermaths, driven more by policymaker choices than true debt constraints. Read more
NPR's Planet Money episode "Economics, Sexism, Data" discusses a study by Berkeley Economics undergrad Alice Wu, which uncovered rampant bias in the Economics Job Market Rumors forum. Listen to the podcast here.
Congratulations to the winners of the undergraduate and graduate annual awards. View the list of award-winning students here.