Berkeley Economics

OFFICIAL Twitter of the Department of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.

[UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley]

UC Berkeley’s world-class economics department (@berkeleyecon) is celebrating Nobels won by two scholars: Robert E. Hall, a 1964 graduate and early-career faculty member, and Michael Woodford, a visiting scholar in the 2025-26 academic year.
https://t.co/AMdRlyQPGS

[Berkeley Economics @berkeleyecon]

Brazil reserved half its federal college seats for disadvantaged students. Berkeley's @NanoBarahona and co-authors find benefited students gained more than displaced ones lost, but there were 30% more displaced than benefited, leaving a modest net gain.  https://t.co/apCmC7Gek0

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

“They're probably hoping I'll cancel the exam.”

New laureate Michael Woodford was scheduled to be setting his economics students an exam today, when he was woken by a call from Stockholm at 4:30am. Woodford spoke to us about his feelings for his prize – and praised his co-laureate Robert E. Hall.

Listen to his first reactions.

[Jon Steinsson @JonSteinsson]

There were screams of joy in the Nakamura-Steinsson household this morning when we saw this news!

[Cal Bears History @CalBearsHistory]

Congratulations to Robert E. Hall, Class of 1964, on becoming the newest Cal alum to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. @berkeleyecon

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Air pollution clouds the mind: Evidence from real-time monitoring in Kenya

Last month on VoxDev w/ @XuqianMa, Michelle Layvant (@AreBerkeley), Edward Miguel (@berkeleyecon), Eric Ochieng (@poverty_action), Ajay Pillarisetti & @mwwalkerecon (@CEGA_UC): https://t.co/SQ2bm3vPdg

[Cal Bears History @CalBearsHistory]

Lawrence Klein, Class of 1942, was born September 14, 1920. In 1980, Klein became the first Cal alum to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, for creating computer models to forecast macroeconomic trends - tools still used by the Federal Reserve. @berkeleyecon

[J-PAL LAC @JPAL_LAC]

📌 Recap | Investigación aplicada en Guatemala
Del 22 al 25/8, Rodrigo Nicolau Blanchet, estudiante de PhD en @berkeleyecon y co-investigador del estudio de la Beca de Capacitación Productiva de @Midesgt, participó en Construyendo Futuros, iniciativa de J-PAL LAC y @uvggt.

[CEPR @cepr_org]

23 September 17:00 CEST International Macro History Online Seminar #IMHOS
🗣️@B_Eichengreen (@berkeleyecon & CEPR) presents 'Money Beyond Borders'
Chair: Rui Esteves (@GVAGrad & CEPR)
✍️ https://t.co/hxs6aO7eMb

[Berkeley Economics @berkeleyecon]

"If they have an option to move, that means that they have leverage." UC Berkeley economist Enrico Moretti tells @FortuneMagazine why corporate relocation threats work on states. #Economics #UCBerkeley https://t.co/bG5o9D1N67

[CEPR @cepr_org]

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP22004
Beveridgean Phillips Curve
Pascal Michaillat @ucsc, Emmanuel Saez @UCBerkeley @berkeleyecon
https://t.co/DGcJ2HrVDb
#CEPR_MEF #EconTwitter

[Berkeley Economics @berkeleyecon]

Berkeley Economics is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor this year. This teaching-track position is eligible for security of employment, which is equivalent to tenure.
Applications are due November 6, 2026. Details and the application link are here: https://t.co/WqcpYZsETx

[Berkeley Economics @berkeleyecon]

🎉 Berkeley Economics is celebrating! Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas has won the 2026 Bernhard Harms Prize from the Kiel Institute. The prize honors his research on how money flows between countries and why some run large surpluses or deficits. https://t.co/vU9PDWieqK #UCBerkeley

[UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley]

UC Berkeley has once again been named the top public university in North America in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

This adds to the growing list of #1 rankings Berkeley has earned this year, including ones from PitchBook, Forbes and U.S. News & World Report. https://t.co/ucLi6P56SO

[Berkeley Economics @berkeleyecon]

UC Berkeley Economics continues to lead globally! 🏆 In the latest U.S. News 2027 Best Colleges rankings, three of our programs landed at No. 1 nationwide: Public Finance, Labor Economics, and International Economics. 🥇

Read more: https://t.co/Qp2VdgnHk7
@UCBerkeley #GoBears

[Owen Zidar @omzidar]

Huge congratulations to @EDerenoncourt for getting a MacArthur ‘genius’ grant @Princeton @PrincetonEcon
https://t.co/T7mOatqwVj

[UC Berkeley @UCBerkeley]

Once again, U.S. News & World Report (@usnews) has named UC Berkeley the #1 public university (tied). Berkeley has topped the rankings for much of the 21st century. 🥇 https://t.co/ZMIeeEpCbE

[Berkeley Economics @berkeleyecon]

ON AIR NOW: @gabriel_zucman live on @KQEDnews Forum discussing Proposition 40 and breaking down the debate over California’s proposed billionaire tax.

Tune in live: https://t.co/OpB7g5pwge

[VoxEU @voxeu]

A view to a kill…ing of productivity: The allocative cost of war in Ukraine
Marvin Amann @kielinstitute, Yuriy Gorodnichenko @YGorodnichenko @berkeleyecon, Oleksandr Talavera @SashaTalavera @econ_ub
https://t.co/71YKm8sj1K

[VoxEU @voxeu]

AI in a fragmenting world: Why ‘connector’ economies can still gain
Barry Eichengreen @B_Eichengreen @berkeleyecon, Jingyuan Cui, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Yevgeniya Korniyenko, Elyad Shojaei, Li Zeng, Shihangyin Zhang @IMFNews
https://t.co/n8KzoE65oq