Boston College Department of Economics

Economics Ph.D. candidates available for employment

A number of current and prospective graduates of the Boston College Economics Ph.D. program are participating in the job market this winter. A list of those participating, with full details on their fields, research and advisors is now available.

Li, Mortimer join the BC economics faculty

Ben Li Last year's faculty recruitment season was exceedingly successful, with the department filling four authorized positions in an attempt to reduce the pressure on undergraduate enrollments and strengthen the graduate program.

Assistant Prof. Ben Li joins us from University of Colorado-Boulder, where he received the Ph.D. this year. His interests are in international trade, economic development, and industrial organization. He has published in World Economy, Journal of Urban Economics, Economics Letters and Economics Bulletin. Li looks forward to teaching the graduate international trade course this fall and the undergraduate trade course next spring.

Julie Mortimer Associate Prof. Julie Holland Mortimer is our new hire in the field of industrial organization. She has been a member of the Harvard faculty since 2001, and serves as a Faculty Research Fellow of the NBER. Mortimer received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2001, and has published in Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Industrial Economics. She will be teaching undergraduate and graduate IO courses this fall.

Maxwell takes permanent position

Prof. Chris Maxwell, who has offered electives in sports economics, game theory and math for economists, has joined the full-time faculty as an adjunct associate professor. Maxwell, who received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1983 and served on the faculty in the 1980s, will be teaching a section of econometric methods and the math for economists course this fall.

Chugh joins faculty in January

Prof. Sanjay Chugh of the University of Maryland, who visited the department in spring 2010, has joined the economics faculty in January 2012, strengthening the ranks of the macroeconomics group. Chugh received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania in 2004 after undergraduate study at MIT. He has also served at the Federal Reserve Board and as a visiting scholar at the Boston Fed.

Iacoviello, Seitz leave the department

Assoc. Prof. Matteo Iacoviello has resigned to take a position with the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. Asst. Prof. Shannon Seitz has resigned to take a position with The Analysis Group in Boston.

23 August 2011

Luigi Pascali wins best dissertation award

Dr. Luigi Pascali, an August 2010 graduate of the Economics Ph.D. program, is this year's co-recipient of the Donald J. White Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the social sciences in Boston College's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Pascali wrote "Essays in Growth, Development, and International Trade", advised by Profs. James Anderson, Susanto Basu, and Fabio Schiantarelli. In his jobmarket search last year, he was appointed to a position at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, one of Europe's most prestigious institutions in economics. Pascali's selection reflects the innovative nature of his work, one essay of which explores the relationship between the 14th-15th century economic landscape and economic development today.

21 May 2011

An addition to the company of scholars

The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Dessislava Slavtcheva, a native of Bulgaria, who defended her dissertation on 5 July. She wrote "Financial Development, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Productivity Growth," advised by Prof. Fabio Ghironi. She has accepted a position at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Our congratulations to Dr. Slavtcheva.

6 July 2011

BC Economics Ph.D. highly ranked

Rankings of elite national universities released this month by U.S. News & World Report include the Boston College Economics Ph.D. program at 31st in the US. This is the highest ranking achieved by any of the University's Ph.D. programs.

Rankings by RePEc's IDEAS site list BC Economics as 17 among US economics departments, and 23 among economics departments worldwide. These rankings, taking account of citations to authors' works and downloads of their materials from RePEc services, are based on the self-registration of faculty members in the RePEc Author Service, and reflect multiple affiliations of authors.

A list of published and unpublished works of BC Economics' faculty members is available from IDEAS.

20 March 2011

Recent publications highlighted

An up-to-date list of the recent published articles of department faculty that appear in RePEc services such as IDEAS and EconPapers is now available, courtesy of the IDEAS RePEc service. To appear on this list, faculty must be registered with RePEc, the journal must be included in RePEc listings (as almost all journals of note are) and the author must 'claim' their article in the RePEc Author Service.

08 Mar 2010

Undergraduate Program FAQ available

A set of Frequently Asked Questions regarding the Department's undergraduate offerings is now available. If you are a major, minor, CSOM concentrator or interested in becoming one, please consult the FAQ!

5 Sep 2010

Berlin seminar on Economic Policy offered again this summer

Once again, the economics department's course offerings will include an economics elective next summer in Berlin, Germany. The course, EC368: Economic Policy Analysis from a European Perspective is offered through the university's Office of International Programs (OIP), in conjunction with the prestigious German economic research institute DIW Berlin. It is cross-listed as IN 368 for students in the International Studies program. The course was first offered in Summer 2011, and was very well received by participants. The three-credit-hour course will be held over a 3.5-week period, starting in Commencement week, and will feature presentations by economic researchers from DIW Berlin combined with lectures on economic policy analysis, as well as several cultural opportunities in Germany's capital. Assoc. Prof. Christopher F Baum, who is also a DIW Research Professor, is leading the course. Interested students should contact the OIP as soon as possible, as the OIP Summer Seminars operate on a rolling admission basis

14 November 2011

Ünver promoted to Professor

Microeconomist Utku Ünver has been promoted to Professor. Ünver joined the BC faculty in 2008 as an Associate Professor from the University of Pittsburgh, where he served since 2005. He completed the Ph.D. at Pittsburgh in 2000 and taught for five years at Koç University in Turkey. His interests lie in microeconomic theory, particularly game theory, market and mechanism design, and social choice. His wide-ranging publications have appeared in Games and Economic Behavior, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and New England Journal of Medicine. His work on kidney exchange, some of it coauthored by Prof. Tayfun Sönmez has been widely cited and supported by the National Science Foundation.

Our congratulations to Prof. Ünver!

31 August 2011

BC EC 2011 and all prior issues available

The October, 2011 edition of BC EC, the department's annual newsletter, is now available in PDF format, as are all prior issues of BC EC back to Vol. 1, Issue 1 of 1978.

14 November 2011

Oriana Bandiera wins prestigious award

Prof. Oriana Bandiera, Ph.D. '2000, has been awarded the 2011 Carlo Alberto Medal by Collegio Carlo Alberto in Torino, Italy. The medal is awarded to an Italian scholar under the age of 40 who has made outstanding contributions to economics. The medal has been awarded annually since 2007; Bandiera is the first female recipient.

After finishing the doctorate at Boston College, where she was advised by Profs. James Anderson, Richard Arnott and Fabio Schiantarelli, Bandiera joined the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is Professor of Economics. The citation of the award states "Oriana has done enlightening work on the role and the design of incentives in the workplace, in advanced and developing economies. Her papers on social ties within and across ranks--using natural field experiments together with remarkable identification strategies--showed the importance of non-monetary incentives."

Bandiera has been a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, New York University, Yale University, Northwestern University and the IIES in Stockholm. She is the co-Director of the Economic Organization and Public Policy Programme of STICERD and of the State Capabilities Research Programme of the International Growth Center, a Research Fellow of CEPR, and an Associate Editor of, among others, the Journal of Economic Literature and the Economic Journal.

31 March 2011

Faculty strengthen economics major requirements

The economics faculty have voted to strengthen the requirements for the highly popular economics major, raising the number of required courses for the major to 11 for the Class of 2014 and those following. Last year, the faculty voted to make EC 228, Econometric Methods, a required course for the major, effective for the Class of 2013. That reduced the number of required elective courses to four, with six required courses. The new requirement will restore the fifth elective course. A concurrent change in regulations mandates that both intermediate theory courses (EC 201-202 or EC 203-204) must be completed by the end of the junior year. Current students must also fulfill a one semester calculus co-requisite prior to enrolling in intermediate theory courses (two semesters for the honors sections of those courses). These revisions to economics major requirements bring Economics into line with many other Arts and Sciences majors that require 11 or 12 courses. Full details of requirements for the major are available on the economics website.

24 Dec 2009

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