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Press Contact Information

Please direct press inquires to the appropriate faculty listed below. For all other inquires please contact Inga Kiderra.  

 

Faculty Economics Topics Contact Information
Berman
  • Terrorism
  • Security
  • Development economics
  • Labor economics
  • Religion

Eli Berman

Email: elib@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-534-2858

Boomhower
  • Environmental & societal impacts of oil and gas drilling
  • Electricity markets
  • Energy efficiency
  • Natural disasters, especially wildfire risks and impacts

Judson Boomhower

Email: boomhower@ucsd.edu

carsin
  • Environmental and energy issues

Richard Carson

Email: rcarson@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-2262

clemens
  • Health policy
  • Minimum wages
  • State and local government finances

Jeffrey Clemens

Email: jeffclemens@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-534-5713

  • Pollution
  • Climate Change
  • Innovation
  • Entrepreneurship

 

Josh Graff Zivin

Email: jgraffzivin@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-6438

jacobsen
  • Transportation, gasoline, electric vehicles
  • Climate change
  • Environmental economics

Mark Jacobsen

Email: m3jacobsen@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-822-7767

  • Monetary policy
  • Oil prices

 

James Hamilton

Email: jhamilton@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-534-5986

 

meckel
  • Anti poverty programs in the US (SNAP, or "Food Stamps", WIC, and Medicaid)
  • Deaths of despair/ opioid crisis

Katherine Meckel

Email: kmeckel@ucsd.edu

muendler
  • Consequences of globalization for local markets and workers
  • Trade agreements and trade disputes
  • Global supply chains, their formation and management
  • Multinational corporations, their role in globalization and their taxation
  • Regional expertise: Europe, Latin America

Marc Muendler

Email: mmuendler@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-534-4799

  • Education, health, and welfare programs in low and middle-income countries
  • Global poverty
  • State capacity
  • India
  • India-US relations

 

Karthik Muralidharan

Email: muralidharan@ucsd.edu

 

 

watson
  • Law and economics
  • Strategic management
  • Contracts
  • Environmental and trade agreements

Joel Watson

Email: jwatson@ucsd.edu

Phone: 858-534-6132