Business and economics | Expert Topics

Vinod Aggarwal

Professor of business and public policy

International political economy, trade, world markets, recession, debt, finance, supply chains, impact of disease pandemics on global economy.

Alan Auerbach

Professor of economics and law, director of the Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance at Berkeley

Areas of expertise: Public policy, public finance, domestic and international tax policy, inequality and tax policy.

Nano Barahona

Assistant professor of economics

nanobk@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: Food labeling regulations, affirmative action in education admissions
Spanish-speaking

Severin Borenstein

E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy, faculty director of the Energy Institute at Berkeley Haas

Oil and gasoline market pricing and competition, energy markets, climate change, electricity deregulation, market formation and competition, U.S. and international airline competition.

Expertise: Labor supply, markets and public policy; welfare reform; Immigration; effects of Medicaid program; pensions and retirement; education; minimum wages; strikes and collective bargaining; evaluation of social programs; unemployment.

Jennifer Chatman

Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management

Organizational culture and performance, crisis leadership, group demography, norms in social groups.

Aaron Edlin

Richard W. Jennings Professor of Law, professor of economics, co-director of the Law and Economics Program

Areas of expertise: authority on antitrust, contract remedies, law and economics.

Carole Galante

I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy, faculty director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/author/cgalante/

Areas of expertise: housing policy and community development, the design and finance of affordable housing development.

Carole Galante

I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor in Affordable Housing and Urban Policy; faculty director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation;

Served in the Obama Administration for over five years as the Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing

J. Keith Gilless

Professor of forest economics

Expertise: forest economics and management, wildland fire protection planning.

Benjamin E. Hermalin

Professor of business and economics

Expertise: Corporate governance, executive compensation, economics of leadership and organization, finance.

Saru Jayaraman

Director, Food Labor Research Center

restaurant workers, inequality, working poor

Clark Kellogg

Lecturer in creativity, design and innovation

Design for business, creativity as a success driver in business careers

Ronald D. Lee

Professor of demography and economics, emeritus; associate director, Center for the Economics and Demography of Aging

Expertise: aging, life expectancy, population forecasts and long-term projections, and impact of demographic trends of Social Security.

David Levine

Professor of business administration, Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Chair in Business Administration

Best management practices in the foreign sector and in large corporations, health effects in developing nations, including hygiene and safe water programs, workplace diversity, impacts of high and low wages, and of education in the business sector.

Enrico Moretti

Professor of economics and of real estate

Urban economics, labor economics, economics of cities and regions, real estate

Terrance Odean

Professor of finance at Berkeley Haas

Expertise: personal investment, behavioral finance, investor behavior, Investor welfare.

Gary Pieroni

Lecturer at the Haas School of Business

Expertise: Management and accounting.

Carolina Reid

Assistant professor of city and regional planning, faculty research advisor for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation

Areas of expertise: Housing and community development; access to credit, homeownership and wealth inequality.

Andrew Rose

Professor of international business and trade

Areas of expertise: economic issues of international trade and foreign exchange, trade patterns, currency crises, exchange rates,
banking, exchange crises in developing countries.

Kenneth Rosen

Professor of real estate and urban economics

Areas of expertise: economics of housing and commercial real estate marketing, California housing market, price adjustments.

Emmanuel Saez

Professor of Economics

saez@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Income inequality, taxation, wealth distribution, public economics.

Harley Shaiken

Professor of education, chair of the Latin American Studies Center

Areas of expertise: labor and the global economy, role of schooling and skills in the global economy, immigration and Latin America.

Laura Tyson

Professor and faculty director at the Institute for Business & Social Impact

tyson@haas.berkeley.edu

Economic impact on global, U.S. and California economies; trade and competitiveness; jobs and disruption

Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey

Assistant professor of economics

quitze@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: Education funding, platform market design and regulation, pay transparency, theories of labor market discrimination
Spanish-speaking

Richard A. Walker

Professor of geography, emeritus

walker@berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: race, environment, urbanism, politics, geography, resources, economic geography, regional development, cities, California, class.

James Wilcox

Professor, Haas School of Business

Wilcox served as a senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1990 to 1991 and as an economist with the Federal Reserve from 1991 to 1992. His expertise includes federal economic policy, small business lending, banking and consumer spending.

Catherine Wolfram

Professor of business administration

Expertise: Climate change, energy efficiency, regulation of business, energy and environmental markets.

Income inequality

Sylvia Allegretto

labor economist, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics

Research interests include long-term unemployment, family budgets, teacher pay, public employee compensation, low-wage labor markets, inequality, minimum wages and sub-minimum wages received by tipped workers.

Lea Austin

Co-director, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE)

Lea Austin is an expert on the early education sector and workforce, including the effect of COVID-19 on child care providers, racial wage inequities in early education, and strategies to reform the early education system.

Linda Burton

Dean of the School of Social Welfare

lburton@berkeley.edu

Poverty and child welfare in rural and urban U.S., welfare reform, intergenerational family structures, social determinants of health, ethnography

David Card

Professor of economics

Mike Hout

Professor emeritus of sociology and demography

mikehout@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Socio-economic class, demographics, inequality, politics of religion.

Ken Jacobs

chair, UC Berkeley Labor Center

Areas of specialization include low-wage work; labor standards policies; health care coverage; and minimum wage laws. Recently he has focused on the impact of COVID-19 on low-wage and gig workers, and on the labor movement.

Saru Jayaraman

Director, Food Labor Research Center

restaurant workers, inequality, working poor

Jane McAlevey

senior policy fellow, Center for Labor Research and Education

An author and scholar of the labor movement, with lengthy experience as an organizer. She is the author of "Raising Expectations and Raising Hell" (Verso Books, 2012); "No Shortcuts - Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" (Oxford University Press, 2016): and "A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy" (Ecco Press, 2020).

Daniel Perlstein

Associate professor in the Graduate School of Education

Areas of expertise: At-risk youth, democratic education, diversity, educational equity, history of education, urban schooling.

Michael Reich

professor of economics and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE).

mreich@econ.berkeley.edu

Director of IRLE from 2004-2015. Research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality; historical stages in U.S. labor markets; high performance workplaces; union-management cooperation; and living wages and minimum wages.

Carolina Reid

Assistant professor of city and regional planning, faculty research advisor for the Terner Center for Housing Innovation

Areas of expertise: Housing and community development; access to credit, homeownership and wealth inequality.

Jesse Rothstein

Professor of economics and of public policy

Labor economics, unemployment, low-wage workers, recessions, public benefits, education, tax policy

Emmanuel Saez

Professor of Economics

saez@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Income inequality, taxation, wealth distribution, public economics.