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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Political Science

political economy or comparative political economy, market governance, regulation, the Japanese model of capitalism, Japanese politics, political science

Xi Wu

Haas School of Business

securities regulation, corporate governance, capital markets, FinTech

Dept of Economics

minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

Christine A. Parlour with yellow scarf

Christine Parlour

Haas School of Business

Market Design, banking, FinTech, payment systems, clearing and settlement, DeFi, decentralized finance, market microstructure

Shawn Kim in outside setting

Shawn Kim

Haas School of Business

determinants and consequences of voluntary disclosure, corporate governance, insider trading, accounting information and capital markets, capital markets, incentives, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, climate change

Severin Borenstein

Haas School of Business

energy markets, electricity deregulation, industrial organization, environmental economics, applied microeconomics, airline competition, market pricing & competition

Haas School of Business

market microstructure, corporate finance, Macro Finance, asset pricing

Ali Kakhbod

Haas School of Business

financial economics, liquidity, market microstructure, big data, contracts

photo of Ben Hermalin in office

Benjamin Hermalin

Dept of Economics

contract theory, corporate governance, executive compensation, economics of leadership and organization, competitive strategy, industrial organization

Ofer Eldar environmental shot

Ofer Eldar

business associations, corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics, corporate governance, entrepreneurial finance, social impact

Yuichiro Kamada

Haas School of Business

game theory, social networks, search, Market Design, communication, political economy, marketing

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

wastes and the circular economy, global environmental governance, climate change politics, globalization, environmental politics and policy, environmental movements

Haas School of Business

nonverbal behavior, prejudice and discrimination, power and status, social perception, automaticity, social behavior and market outcomes

David Singh Grewal

David Singh Grewal

legal theory, political theory, intellectual history, global economic governance, international trade law, intellectual property law and biotechnology, law and economics

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

marine ecology, land-sea connectivity, coastal resilience, geospatial data, ocean policy and governance, social-ecological dynamics, coral reef, California current system

Dept of City & Regional Planning

environmental planning, climate planning, sustainability and resilience, environmental and climate justice, geographic and spatial analysis, urban policy and political economy, global environmental governance, community engagement

Eric A. Stanley

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

economics, algorithms, financial engineering, risk management, planning, optimization, operation of electric power systems, market based coordination of network systems, trading instruments

Maurice Obstfeld

Maurice Obstfeld

Dept of Economics

economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies

Jesse Rothstein

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor economics, inequality, education policy, unemployment, tax policy, local public finance, teacher quality, segregation, economics of education, labor market, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, partnership research, higher education

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Matteo Benetton

Haas School of Business

regulation in lending markets, competition in lending markets, household finance, mortgage product design, housing markets, mortgage markets

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Dept of Economics

Haas School of Business

high-technology competition, US industrial and technology policies, international economy, US trade policy, US competitiveness, emerging market economies, multinational companies in the US economy, gender gap (economic participation, educational attainment, political empowerment and health), research and development tax credit