Being that its his first year at UCLA, it might be because he's still in his honeymoon phase. Nevertheless, it was truly a pleasure being a student in his class. He was passionate about the topic at hand and was always able to convey topics in a clear and succinct fashion. There is some math in the class but as long as you understand the concepts, the math becomes intuitive. Also demonstrates a lot of real life examples to help you bridge the gap between abstract concepts and practical applications. Stays ~5mins after class to answer questions. Also highly recommend his honors seminar ECON 189. We covered racial discrimination in ban-the-box, bail policy etc.

After taking Professor Mazzocco’s nightmare of an Econ 11 class last quarter, I found this class similar but better. In my opinion, Silveira was a much better professor than Mazzocco and very easily the best economics professor I’ve had at UCLA. That’s not saying much, though.

The content of the class was—for a lack of better words—all over the place. I don’t attribute this to the professor but the nature of the class itself. We found ourselves switching gears constantly: we started off with monopoly and oligopoly; abruptly shifted to a diverse spread of game theory topics; and ended by spending the last week on uncertainty and risk topics that had nothing to do with the prior topics we had learned. Although the professor constantly attempted to demonstrate common trends between the topics, we only ever saw them in practice problems or exam problems.

The problem sets were much more challenging than Mazzocco’s and served as adequate preparation for the exams. The few practice exams he put out a week or less before each exam, however, were more helpful. Although there was a lack of practice exams given the fact that Bernardo has only taught this class for two quarters, I found myself prepared for most of the content on the exams. Becoming intimately familiar with the way in which he formats each question on the problem sets and practice exams is essential, especially those that slightly deviate from the examples in lecture.

The exams were some of the hardest I’ve had in UCLA economics, although—as I said before—that isn’t saying much. There were some problem types that we simply never encountered in the lectures or any of the practice materials that made it on the exams; at the end of the day, they just require some creative intuition because there is no good way to prepare for them. Just follow the strategy I give above, and you will do fine.

This professor is the best economics professor that I've had in my two years at UCLA. He previously taught at UPenn and WashU in St. Louis. His lectures are clear, concise, and very engaging. He gives a lot of real life examples which keeps me interested in his lectures. He puts out practice midterms and finals that are nearly identical to the real ones. All exams are multiple choice. With two midterms and a final, he chooses the grading scheme that gives you the highest grade. The only negative thing I have to say is that the homework could be very difficulty and take a few hours to complete and do well. It was graded, but didn't really help me on the exams. Overall, loved this class and professor!!

This class is notorious for being difficult, and it was, but Prof Silveria did a good job at teaching it. Our pre-recorded lectures were never too long or unclear. The only time there might have been uncertainty was during the q and a when someone asked a question he didn't know the answer to. While his lectures were really clear, the problem sets tended to throw curve balls and was quite hard. It is a bit hard to prepare for his exams because he has only taught the class once or twice before this quarter so there weren't too many practice exams to use. Overall, for being a new professor, I enjoyed him!

Amazing! If you plan to do Econ 101 sometime in the future, please do it with Prof. Silveira. He genuinely cares about his students doing well and is an excellent lecturer. His assignments and practice materials are very helpful for the exams, which, by the way, are VERY reasonable. This guy made me fall in love with Economics all over again!

This professor is the goat. He has a super generous curve and is one of the best Econ professors at the school. Highly recommend taking him in the Spring quarter!!

Bernardo is a pretty solid teacher. His slides are clear but when he strays off to his iPad that clarity is sometimes lost. He has funny handwriting that is in all caps but it is not a big problem. The class has 5 or 6 homeworks which are grades on accuracy for 10% of the grade - lowest one is dropped. Sometimes these homeworks can take hours but it does help you understand if you fight through. There are 2 midterms and a final. Midterm one covers mostly monopoly, some oligopoly, and the basics of game theory. I found this midterm to be the harder of the two. After this, the class content takes a huge dive and honestly becomes very hard. However, the content is also interesting if you enjoy Econ / game theory. I preformed well on midterm 2 but I think I got lucky. The last two questions were prefaced with “you have never seen anything like this before but…”. The final was very difficult, the median was a 68. In the end, Bernardo followed through on his promise to curve the class fairly, at least in my opinion. Overall, he is a solid teacher and the class is difficult but not horrible.

Bernaardo is a GOAT!

Very fair and reasonable professor, this is a hard class but if you have a chance to take it with Silveira definitely go for it. Tests are easier than I expected (still hard overall) because they’re a lot like the practice tests. There are two midterms and homework and your lowest midterm and hw gets dropped. I scored between 7-10 points/100 above the median for one midterm and final and got an A-.

Bernardo is the best professor. Just pick him and enjoy your econ 101.