Business

Conrad Miller

Conrad Miller

Associate Professor, Economic Analysis & Policy, Haas School of Business

Conrad Miller is Assistant Professor of Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group. He earned is Ph.D. from MIT in 2014. Miller's research includes hiring, job networks, affirmative action in the labor market, and spatial labor market frictions.

Frederico Finan

Frederico Finan

George Break and Helen Schnacke Break Distinguished Professor of Economics; Professor of Business Administration

Frederico Finan is a Professor of Economics and Business Administration. He is also an affiliate of Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development(BREAD), and a research fellow at IZA and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Guo Xu

Guo Xu

Associate Professor, Business & Public Policy

Guo Xu is Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, a Research Associate at the NBER and Affiliate at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). He also serves as Co-Editor at the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization and as Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy and Econometrica. He received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2017. His work is at the intersection between political economy, economic history, and organizational economics. 

Jonathan Kolstad

Jonathan Kolstad

Professor, Henry J. Kaiser Chair, Economic Analysis & Policy

Jonathan Kolstad is an Associate Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an economist whose research interests lie at the intersection of health economics, industrial organization and public economics. His work has studied, amongst other things, the impact of quality information on demand as well as intrinsic surgeon incentives, the impact of the Massachusetts health insurance expansion on a variety of outcomes and consumer decision making in insurance markets. Kolstad was awarded the Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association for the best paper in health economics in 2014. Professor Kolstad is also a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist at Picwell.

Reed Walker

Reed Walker

Associate Professor, Economics; Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy, Haas School of Business

Reed Walker is the Transamerica Associate Professor of Business Strategy and an Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. His research explores the social costs of environmental externalities such as air pollution and how regulations to limit these externalities contribute to gains and/or losses to the economy. He is a research associate at the Energy Institute at Haas, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at IZA. He was a recipient of the 2017 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and the 2015 IZA Young Labor Economist Award. He received his PhD in economics from Columbia University in 2012 and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy program from 2012-2014.

Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Ricardo Perez-Truglia

Associate Professor, Economic Analysis & Policy; Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance, Haas School of Business

Ricardo Perez-Truglia is an Associate Professor at the Haas School of Business. His research lies at the intersection of behavioral economics, political economy and public economics. Perez-Truglia intends his research to inform firms and policy makers in the developed and developing world, leading to practical applications. One of his main research interests is how social image and social comparisons shape economic behavior. Perez-Truglia studies social incentives in contexts such as tax compliance, political participation and happiness.

Sydnee Caldwell

Sydnee Caldwell

Assistant Professor, Economic Analysis and Policy, Department of Economics and Haas School of Business

Sydnee Caldwell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Haas School of Business. Her research focuses on topics in labor and personnel economics.