Stock markets are spiraling downward in the shadow of a global economic slowdown and the inability of policymakers around the world to stabilize financial markets. In the U.S., the Dow posted its worst drop since the financial crisis in December 2008. UCLA has experts.

 

Lee Ohanian, professor of economics, is an expert in macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles and growth, and the stock market and financial markets.

Media contacts:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

Roger Farmer, professor and chair of economics, specializes in the role of market psychology on economic activity and is the author of "How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies" (2010).

Media contact:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu 

 

Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, comments regularly on the local, national and international economies. He is also the co-creator of the Ceridian–UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index, which tracks fuel purchases at interstate truck stops as a means of predicting economic changes in the United States.

Media contact:

Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu

 

Michael Darby, a professor of money and financial markets at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Department of Economics, specializes in banking, capital markets and international finance.

Media contacts:

Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu

 

William Cockrum, an adjunct professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is an authority on banking, capital markets and entrepreneurial finance.

Media contacts:

Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu

 

Chris Tilly, director of the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, is an expert on labor markets and the relationship between public policies and the creation of jobs.

Media contact:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

Jerry Nickelsburg, a senior economist with the UCLA Anderson Forecast, is an expert on the national and California economies.

Media contact:

Elise Anderson | 310-206-7707 | elise.anderson@anderson.ucla.edu

 

Lynn Vavreck, assistant professor of political science, studies political campaigns, with an emphasis on how the state of the economy and candidate behavior affect voters.

Media contacts:

Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu