AISHANI BANERJEE – OCTOBER 29TH, 2020 EDITOR: RAKSHA SEN On February 12, 2020, PayPal announced an unlikely partnership. Criminologists at the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago and the Continue Reading
ALLY MINTZER – OCTOBER 28TH, 2020 EDITOR: KAT XIE Update: This article was written before the DOJ filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google on Oct 20th, 2020. In late September Continue Reading
GRACE JANG – OCTOBER 27TH, 2020 EDITOR: ABHISHEK ROY Background Since the first outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, the pandemic has reached and spread across other countries at different speeds. Continue Reading
SZE WANG – 27TH OCTOBER 2020 EDITOR: LUCIA DARDIS We live in a time where politicians and entire governments group themselves based on their stance on Chinese trade. Emerging markets Continue Reading
Berkeley Economic Review is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2020 Essay Contest! Every semester, we pick a contemporary economics-related issue that Berkeley students of any major can write about. Continue Reading
THOMAS SO – OCTOBER 22ND, 2020 EDITOR: KALEY KRANICH China has been ambitiously planning to make its currency, the yuan, one of the global reserve currencies. Nevertheless, being an international Continue Reading
VASANTH KUMAR – OCTOBER 21ST, 2020 EDITOR: SEAN O’CONNELL On September 20, BuzzFeed News published the FinCEN Files: an analysis of over 2,100 leaked Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) submitted to Continue Reading
RIA BHANDARKAR – OCTOBER 20TH, 2020 EDITOR: CHAZEL HAKIM The coronavirus pandemic has forced people from all stages of life to transition to a more digital world. Although some groups Continue Reading
PETER ZHANG – OCTOBER 19TH, 2020 EDITOR: PEDRO DE MARCOS Soaring costs are a recurring headline in American healthcare, and the centerpiece is the rising price of drugs. A GoodRx report Continue Reading
EKATERINA YUDINA – OCTOBER 15TH, 2020 EDITOR: COURTNEY FUNG Perspectives on marijuana use have shifted since the days of overt anti-cannabis rhetoric in the media. A prime example is the Continue Reading
