This month, our podcast features a conversation with Stuart Gabriel, UCLA Anderson Distinguished Professor of Finance, Arden Realty Chair, and Director of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. We discuss housing prices, interest rates, and housing supply.

This month, our podcast features a conversation with Kenan Fikri, Research Director at the Economic Innovation Group. We discuss entrepreneurship and opportunity zones.

This month, our podcast features a conversation with Vernon Henderson, Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics. Professor Henderson is one of the world’s leading urban economists. We talk with him about the future of cities.

This month, our podcast features a conversation with Leo Feler and Ioana Marinescu regarding research on how enhanced unemployment insurance affected job search and employment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This month, our podcast features a conversation with UCLA Anderson Economist, Leila Bengali, and Professors Fiona Burlig, Louis Preonas, and Matt Woerman, regarding their recent paper on groundwater use in California agriculture.

For this edition of Forecast Direct, Leo Feler has a conversation with Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics at Princeton University about American Immigration. Following is an edited summary of our conversation. Condensed transcript and full video of our conversation are available here

April 2021

For this edition of Forecast Direct, UCLA Anderson Forecast senior economist Leo Feler and Kathryn Edwards of RAND have a discussion about trends in income, the gig economy, and unemployment insurance. A transcription of the conversation and full video of our conversation are available here, and Professor Edwards’ research is available here.