Conference on the 'Economics of Competition and Innovation'
The Competition Policy Center held a conference on the "Economics of Competition and Innovation" on October 26-27, 2007 at the Alumni House on Berkeley campus. Topics included The Design of Intellectual Property Rights; Competition Issues Related to Standards Development Organizations; Theoretical Analysis of the Relationship Between Competition and Intellectual Property; Empirical Studies of Competition; Investment in Research and Development; and the Output of Inventions; Analysis of Law and Economics of Policies Related to Intellectual Property and Research and Development. For conference details, and papers, see: http://iber.berkeley.edu/cpc/Conference/conference_details.html

IBER Economists in Top 13 Nationwide
Three of IBER's faculty investigators, Raj Chetty, Stefano DellaVigna, and Ulrike Malmendier, have been named in the NY Times as among the top thirteen untenured economists in the nation. See the story by David Leonhardt and links to the young economists' webpage.

More Reality in Economics?
Prof. George Akerlof is "taking on some of the profession’s most sacred cows"--including the assumptions about human behavior underlying many of Milton Friedman's theories. A copy of Prof. Akerlof's presidential address at the AEA is also available.

Conference on 'Health and Im/migration'
A conference dealing with two of the most important issues facing Californians - health (and healthcare) and immigration - was held on Wednesday, April 18, 2008. "TransNational Health: New Research on Im/Migration and Health" was the first major event sponsored by the Health and Immigration Consortium, a three-way partnership among Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and UC's Office of the President.
The conference took place at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Ave. in Berkeley.Visit immigration.berkeley.edu for more details.

Economist David Card Wins Labor Economics Honor
David Card, a University of California, Berkeley, economist known for his work in labor and immigration, is a 2006 recipient of the prestigious Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Award in Labor Economics.

New IBER Center on Risk Management
A $3 million endowment by Coleman Fung (Cal '87) has created IBER's newest research center. The Fung Center will support research on a very broad range of risk management topics around a central theme: how to manage the potentials and benefits of risks in a resource-constrained future.

Historical Statistics of the United States
Twelve years after it was begun at IBER, the new edition of Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) has arrived. The California Digital Library has purchased a subscription to the on-line edition, available to UC employees and students through the HSUS website.

http://www.cambridge.org/us/americanhistory/hsus

IBER Researcher Awarded Honorary Doctorate
IBER is pleased to announce that Professor Karlene Roberts (Haas School of Business) has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate in Management Science by the Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III. The degree, approved by the French Foreign Ministry, was conferred this past Spring. The text of the presentation at the ceremony was by Dr. Philippe Baumard, her collaborator on several research projects—most recently, IBER’s new Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. Chapeau, Docteur Roberts!

The Immigration Debate
In forming the national discourse on immigration policy, Prof. David Card, an IBER faculty researcher, figured prominently in recent New York Times article on the effects of immigration on wages in the United States. Read the entire article here.

Calling the Governor on Climate Change
IBER faculty researcher, Prof. Micheal Hanemann led a group of forty three top economists from across California in writing to governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, urging them to move quickly to control greenhouse gas emissions. Read the entire article here.

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