KONNOR VON EMSTER – OCTOBER 1ST, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM Introduction Last February, Berkeley Economic Review (BER) reported on the potential economic consequences of the novel coronavirus, also known as Continue Reading
DAVIS KEDROSKY – SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: LUCIA DARDIS History is eerily symmetrical. Another recession is looming, and, as in 2009, the government is meeting it with a fiscal spending Continue Reading
AISHANI BANERJEE – SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL Introduction At the turn of the 20th century, Salt Lake City, Utah was doing well. Utah had recently passed the population Continue Reading
DAVIS KEDROSKY – APRIL 29th, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL The England of legend is a land of forests. From Arthurian knights venturing through primeval groves to Robin Hood’s Sherwood raids, Continue Reading
VANESSA THOMPSON – APRIL 28TH, 2020 Dr. Meredith Lynn Fowlie is an environmental and energy economist, and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work investigates market-based environmental regulation, Continue Reading
VANESSA THOMPSON – APRIL 23RD, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAZIM Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been a standard measure of economic growth and prosperity since the second world war. Its endurance Continue Reading
ALLY MINTZER – APRIL 22ND, 2020 EDITOR: AMANDA YAO To say we live in uncertain and unsettling times would be an understatement. The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has taken countless lives Continue Reading
NICOLAS DUSSAUX – APRIL 21ST, 2020 EDITORS: JENNIFER JACKSON, PARMITA DAS Are financial institutions now leading the real economy rather than the opposite? Although some pundits seem to still differentiate Continue Reading
DAVIS KEDROSKY – APRIL 16TH, 2020 EDITOR: PINJA VUORINEN When the lights go out at North American ski resorts, they all go out at once. The simultaneous closures of Alterra Continue Reading
SAVR KUMAR – APRIL 15TH, 2020 EDITOR: AMANDA YAO The top 0.01 percent of Americans are estimated to hold nearly 20 percent of all wealth in 2018, three times larger Continue Reading
