According to the latest UCLA Anderson Forecast, the U.S. and California economies are slowing due to the volatility of new policies coming out of the Trump administration, coupled with geopolitical uncertainty. UCLA experts who study the economy, fiscal policy, health care and labor can break down how fluctuating tariffs, immigration raids, foreign policy decisions, cuts to federal research funding and details being hashed out in the “one, big, beautiful bill” (OBBBA) will impact economies near and far.
Clement Bohr
Bohr is the author of the UCLA Anderson Forecast’s quarterly forecast for the nation. He is an expert in economic growth and development, inflation and monetary economics and can speak to the potential impacts of tariffs and immigration policy on the national economy.
Contact: media.relations@anderson.ucla.edu
Kimberly Clausing
Clausing is a professor of tax law and policy at the UCLA School of Law, whose research examines the interplay between government decisions and corporate behavior in the global economy. She is an expert on international taxation, public finance, international trade and climate policy. She can comment on the details of the OBBBA in Congress, tariffs and the congressional budget. She is a former Treasury official from the Biden administration.
Contact: belman@law.ucla.edu
Sebastian Edwards
Edwards is a world-renowned economist at the Anderson School of Management, with a variety of expertise, including on Latin America. He can comment on the impact of the administration’s economic policies on Mexico.
Contact: media.relations@anderson.ucla.edu
Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda
Hinojosa-Ojeda is an associate professor in the department of Chicana and Chicano studies, the founding director of the North American Integration and Development Center, and an expert on immigration. He can comment on trade, investment, tariffs, remittances and immigration relations between the U.S., Mexico, Latin America and the Pacific Rim. He can also address the international political economy as well as the labor market for Latinos in the U.S.
Contact: hinojosa@ucla.edu
Jerry Nickelsburg
Nickelsburg is an economist and author of the UCLA Anderson Forecast’s quarterly forecast for California and a co-author of the national forecast. He can comment on the impact of tariffs, immigration and other macroeconomic topics.
Contact: media.relations@anderson.ucla.edu
Mark Peterson
Peterson is a professor of public policy, political science, health policy and management at the Luskin School of Public Affairs. His scholarship focuses on the presidency, Congress, interest groups and public opinion, evaluating interactions among them and their implications for policymaking. His areas of expertise include national health care policy and comprehensive health care reform, including Medicare reform, and HIV and AIDS politics and policy. He can comment on health care issues that are central to the OBBBA.
Contact: kshirley@luskin.ucla.edu
Greg Pierce
Pierce is the research and co-executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and the director of the Human Right to Water Solutions Lab. Pierce’s research, teaching and service are motivated by persistent inequities in access to the essential environmental services needed to survive and thrive. He can comment on the economic impacts of Trump’s policies related to research funding as well as government funding for California, FEMA, the L.A. wildfires and anything related to environmental policy.
Contact: kshirley@luskin.ucla.edu
Chris Tang
Tang is a professor of business administration at the Anderson School of Management and a world-renowned expert on supply chains. He can comment on tariffs, supply chain management, retailing, outsourcing and business in Asia. Tang has taught classes on micro-financing for the poor, mobile platforms for developing economies, creating shared values and direct procurement of agricultural products, response management in disasters and new business models in the digital age.
Contact: media.relations@anderson.ucla.edu
Chris Tilly
Tilly is a professor of urban planning at the Luskin School of Public Affairs and an expert on labor markets and the impacts public policy has on jobs. He can comment on the potential economic effects of Trump’s mass deportations and the spillover effects on the employment of native-born workers and GDP.
Contact: kshirley@luskin.ucla.edu
