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After eight years as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Professor Joseph F. Quinn has returned to the Department of Economics as the department's fourth endowed chair: the James P. McIntyre Chair, formerly held by his predecessor, the late dean Robert Barth, S.J.
Joe Quinn joined the Boston College faculty in 1974 and earned the Ph.D. from MIT in 1975. He was promoted to Professor in 1985 and served as chair of the department from 1988 to 1994, leading the department during a period of recruitment of many of today's notable colleagues. His research has been in labor economics, the economics of aging and Social Security reform. Joe has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Academy of Social Insurance since 2002 and is currently Vice President of the Academy. He is affiliated with the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College and the Boston College Center on Aging and Work.
We are delighted to have Joe among us again as a colleague. After a sabbatical this fall, he will return to the classroom next spring teaching Micro Theory and the always-popular Micro Public Policy Seminar.
A Boston College Chronicle story on October 4 noted that the most popular majors chosen by College of Arts & Sciences (A&S) students are communications (826 students), English, political science, biology and history, while 855 students in the Carroll School of Management (CSOM) are concentrating in finance: an all-time high. The most recent figures for the Department of Economics show a marked increase in interest in the major, with a total of 689 students in A&S and CSOM declaring the major. CSOM students have the option of choosing economics as a concentration (in which 127 students are presently enrolled) or doing the full 10-course economics major. The 689 declared majors exceeds the number of declared biology majors (662). In addition, 45 students have declared the six-course departmental minor in economics.
13 October 2007
Last year's faculty recruitment season led to the hire of Assistant Prof. Karim Chalak, who has joined the department faculty this summer. Karim, an econometrician, received his PhD from the University of California-San Diego this spring, working with Halbert White, Clive Granger, Mark Machina, Julian Betts, Graham Elliott, Dimitris Politis and Ruth Williams. Chalak's ongoing research considers the definition, modeling, identification, and estimation of causal effects.
Chalak will be teaching undergraduate econometrics and one of the graduate econometric theory courses this academic year. We are delighted to welcome him to Boston College.
1 July 2007Prof. Richard Arnott has resigned to take a position at University of California-Riverside. Arnott joined the economics faculty in 1988 and chaired many doctoral students' dissertation committees. Assistant Prof. Ingela Alger has resigned to take an Associate Professor position at Carleton University, Ottawa. Alger, a member of the department since 1999, has played an important part in the dissertation seminar.
Assistant Prof. Marina Pavan, on leave this year at University College Dublin, has accepted a position at UCD and will not be returning to BC. Rev. Douglas Marcouiller, SJ, on leave the last three academic years in St. Louis, has accepted a position at St. Louis University and will continue to serve as the Rector of the Jesuit Community in St. Louis.
We offer our departing colleagues our best wishes for their continued success.
18 July 2007
A new service of RePEc's IDEAS website provides a listing of published articles and working papers for almost 50 alumni of the Department's Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. programs. The list at
http://ideas.repec.org/g/bcecons.html provides links to each of these authors' "RePEc CVs", listing their affiliations and works. Only alumni who have self-registered with RePEc can be included.
The list includes an impressive number of works: 16 published articles to date in 2007, along with 49 working papers for that period. The BC EC Alumni list complements the list of current faculty and selected graduate student works at
http://ideas.repec.org/d/debocus.html. For 2007 to date, the latter list contains 22 published articles, 31 working papers and six software components. Both lists are updated monthly at IDEAS.
The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Mauricio Soto, a native of Colombia, who defended on 4 April. He wrote "The Effects of Pension Funding Rules on the Behavior of Firms," advised by Prof. Donald Cox. Soto is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Our congratulations to Dr. Soto.
12 April 2008The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Lewis Gaul, a native of USA, who defended on February 19. He wrote "Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance," advised by Prof. Fabio Schiantarelli. Gaul has accepted a position with the U. S. Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, DC. Our congratulations to Dr. Gaul.
20 February 2008The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Pallavi Seth, a native of India, who defended her dissertation on September 13. She wrote "Monopsony Power and Asymmetric Information: Microeconometrics Applied to Health Care" advised by Prof. Frank Gollop. Dr. Seth has accepted a position with Liberty Mutual.
Our congratulations to Dr. Seth.
13 September 2007The latest additions to the department's roster of Ph.D.s are Maria Teresa Punzi, Viktors Stebunovs, Gokce Kurucu and Darrel Barbato.
Maria Teresa Punzi, a native of Italy, defended her dissertation on July 27. She wrote "Essays on Housing Market and Current Account Imbalances" advised by Profs. Fabio Ghironi and Matteo Iacoviello. Dr. Punzi has accepted a position on the faculty of the University of Alicante in Spain.
Viktors Stebunovs, a native of Latvia, defended his dissertation on July 27. He wrote "Finance as a Barrier to Entry in Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DGSE) Models" advised by Profs. Fabio Ghironi and Peter Ireland. Dr. Stebunovs has accepted a position with the Monetary and Reserve Analysis Unit of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Gokce Kurucu, a native of Turkey, defended her dissertation on July 30. She wrote "Essays on Markets with Network Externalities" advised by Prof. Hideo Konishi. Dr. Kurucu has accepted a position at Tbilisi State University in the republic of Georgia.
Darrel Barbato, a native of USA, defended his dissertation on August 2. He wrote "Essays in Applied Microeconometrics" advised by Profs. Frank Gollop. Dr. Barbato has accepted a position at Liberty Mutual Group in Boston.
Our congratulations to our recent graduates.
7 August 2007The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Tatiana Mihailovschi-Muntean, a native of Moldova, who defended her dissertation on June 21. She wrote "Monetary and Fiscal Policy Mix as Insurance in a Model with Heterogeneous Agents" advised by Murray and Monti Prof. Peter Ireland. Dr. Mihailovschi-Muntean has accepted a position in the economics department of Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.
Our congratulations to Dr. Mihailovschi-Muntean.
24 June 2007A new service of RePEc's IDEAS website provides a listing of the top 200 research items in RePEc by number of citations, weighted by simple impact factors and discounted by citation age. As of 1 September, Neenan Prof. James Anderson has a published article on the list: #95, ""Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle," coauthored by Eric van Wincoop (American Economic Review, 2003). Prof. Susanto Basu's paper with John Fernald, "Returns to Scale in U.S. Production: Estimates and Implications" (Journal of Political Economy, 1997) appears as #188 on the top-200 list. The list at IDEAS is headed up by Clarida-Gali-Gertler's 2000 QJE paper on monetary policy rules. discounted citations.--> IDEAS is managed by Christian Zimmermann of the University of Connecticut economics department.
01 September 2007Economics alumna Dr. Julianne Malveaux has been appointed the 15th president of Bennett College in Greensboro, NC. Bennett, a historically Black college, is a four-year private womens' college with 600 undergraduates, often described as the "Vassar of the South".
Dr. Malveaux received the B.A. in Economics from Boston College in 1974 and the M.A. in Economics in 1975, continuing her studies at MIT, where she earned the Ph.D. in Economics in 1980. She served as a staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors and a research fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation before accepting a position as an assistant professor of economics at New School for Social Research. She held that position at San Francisco State University for 1981-1985, and has served as a visiting professor at University of California-Berkeley. She is an accomplished author with several published books and more than a hundred magazine articles. Dr. Malveaux serves as a guest columnist for USA Today and the president and CEO of Last Word Productions, Inc., a multimedia production company.
Interestingly, she describes herself as a "poet/ writer/ economist". She has been quoted as stating "Not only is the pace of social change exceedingly slow, but the backlash in terms of the new racism, sexism, and classism are incredibly frustrating. I cherish the privilege to write about these things and to have my work published, but I also struggle with the roles I try to combine: writer, economist, activist. I have role models for my efforts though, and when I feel especially overwhelmed I like to think of myself as someone who is following in the footsteps of W.E.B. DuBois, a scholar/activist and very lyrical writer."
19 Jun 2007
Assistant Professor Matteo Iacoviello's work was cited by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke at a conference on The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy in the Twenty-first Century, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on June 15, 2007. Bernanke, speaking on "The Financial Accelerator and the Credit Channel", states that "Over the past two decades, an extensive theoretical literature has exploited the idea that borrowers' financial positions affect their external finance premiums and thus their overall cost of credit. See, for example, Bernanke and Gertler (1989), Kiyotaki and Moore (1997), Bernanke, Gertler, and Gilchrist (1999), Carlstrom and Fuerst (2001), Aoki, Proudman and Vlieghe (2004), and Iacoviello (2005)." The cited paper," House Prices, Borrowing Constraints, and Monetary Policy in the Business Cycle", appeared in the June, 2005 American Economic Review.
19 Jun 2007Economics was well represented at the annual College of Arts and Sciences awards ceremony, held on May 20, 2007 in a packed Robsham Theatre. The Alice E. Bourneuf Award, given to an outstanding senior economics major, was given to Nikki Tyler. She also received one of two A&S General Excellence Medals for excellence in all branches of studies during the four years at BC. Tyler received the distinction of a Scholar of the College for her project The effects of fiscal decentralization on income inequality, advised by Prof. Robert Murphy.
The Giffuni Prize, awarded for an outstanding senior thesis in economics, was shared by Justin Marcoux and Lauren Hurring. Hurring, also a Scholar of the College, wrote The effectiveness of the Applalachian Regional Commission's Distressed Counties Program under the direction of Prof. Richard Tresch. A third Scholar of the College, Outi Jaaskelainen, wrote The effects of institutions and market policies on unemplyment patterns in the OECD: A dynamic model, working with Prof. Fabio Schiantarelli.
Nicholas Salter won the William J. Kenealy, SJ Award for a graduating senior who has been distinguished in both academic work and social concern, while M. Adrienne Hunter won the Brendan Connolly, SJ Award, given to a member of the senior class who is distinguished for a love of books and respect for learning.
22 May 2007The 131st Commencement Exercises of Boston College were held on Monday, 21 May 2007, on the Chestnut Hill campus. Four economics students were awarded the Ph.D., having completed all requirements for the degree since the 2006 commencement.
The latest members of BC Economics' community of scholars (and their advisors) include: Sheila M. Campbell, "Two-Sided Markets with a Negative Network Effect: Radio, Advertisers and Audiences" (Frank Gollop); Todd Prono, "GARCH-Based Identification of Endogenous Regressors" (Arthur Lewbel); Margarita Sapozhnikov, "Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics" (Frank Gollop); and Yoto Yotov, "Labor Market Imperfections, Political Pressure and Trade Patterns" (James E. Anderson).
In addition, masters' degrees were conferred on Paul Batten, Matteo Cacciatore, Kwok Ho Chan, Radostin Djeliov, Patryk Drozdik, Luigi Pascali, Farooq Pasha, Madhavi Pundit, Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Nisha Ye and Hongtao Zhou. Our congratulations to all!
22 May 2007Allan Best, an economics and political science major of the Class of 2007, won the 115h annual Fulton Prize Debate on April 21st. The topic for the debate was "Resolved; That the US Supreme Court should overrule the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Morse v. Frederick." Best and his partner Ryan Malone took the affirmative side; representing the negative was Mandy Castle and Matthew Maerowitz. The affirmative arguments prevailed with the jury of Fulton Prize alumni judges, who awarded Best the gold Fulton medal as the top speaker in the debate.
The negative position won plaudits as well: the Fulton Prize Debate committee established a student award in the name of Joseph F. Quinn, the eight-year veteran Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences who returns to the Economics Department faculty this fall. The first recipient of the Quinn Award is Matt Maerowitz, an economics major of the Class of 2010.
10 May 2007
Professor Zhijie Xiao was presented with the Boston College Distinguished Junior Scholar Research Award in a Faculty Day ceremony on May 7, 2007. This award, presented to only one faculty member per year, was conferred by Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties Bert Garza. Dr. Garza noted that Zhijie is "one of the top econometric theorists in the world in his age cohort...and has been astonishingly productive." Xiao joined the Boston College faculty in 2004. He received the Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1997 and served on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana from 1997-2004. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association, Econometric Theory and Economics Bulletin. Xiao, a specialist in time series econometrics, has published over 30 articles in refereed journals. He is best known for his work on quantile regression.
Zhijie Xiao becomes the fourth member of the economics faculty to have received one of the University's Research Awards. Neenan Prof. James E. Anderson was one of the inaugural recipients of the Distinguished Senior Scholar Research Award in 1999, while Roche Prof. Arthur Lewbel received that award in 2004. Prof. Tayfun Sönmez received the Distinguished Junior Scholar Research Award in 2006.
7 May 2007
Bryana McGillycuddy, an economics major in the Class of 2009, placed third in the Intermediate Equitation
over Fences class at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championships in Springfield, Mass.
She qualified for the national competition by placing second at the Regional (Eastern Mass)
and then the Zone (New England) Championships. Riders in IHSA competitions ride horses assigned
by a random draw. The horse in the attached picture is Chilly, who was brought to the show by
Skidmore College.
The BC Equestrian Team is advised by Prof. Catherine Schneider. When she's not "horsing around", Prof. Schneider directs the undergraduate program.
Capping a 41-year career on the Boston College faculty, Professor David A. Belsley was awarded the status of Professor of Economics Emeritus at a retirement dinner in the Heights Room on May 4. The event featured testimonials by Dean Joseph Quinn, Neenan Prof. James Anderson, Dr. Charles Mueller (PhD,1979) of Raytheon Corp. and Prof. Don Cox (BA,1975). In his response, Belsley offered thanks for the many years of collegial atmosphere and gave tribute to late Prof. Alice Bourneuf, the "mother of the department," who offered him an assistant professor position. Although a bittersweet event, marking the first retirement for many years by a department colleague, the dinner was a reunion of Dave's colleagues and students of several decades, including Cleary Prof. Ed Kane (CSOM) and former graduate secretary Mary Foley. Belsley will be on research leave for the 2007-2008 academic year, with the transition to Emeritus status in mid-2008.
David A. Belsley joined the Boston College Economics Department in 1966 after receiving the Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and the B.A. from Haverford College in 1961. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1969 and Professor in 1974. He was elected Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics in 1988. Belsley's service to the profession includes election to the Advisory Committee of the Society for Computational Economics, 1996-2001, and co-host of that society's international meetings at Boston College in 1999. He has served as Editor of Computational Economics since 1993 and its predecessor journal 1987-1993, serving as guest editor for numerous special issues and collective volumes from the Society's conferences. Belsley also serves as associate editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis and International Journal of Forecasting.
Belsley's most celebrated work, Regression Diagnostics: Identifying Influential Observations and Sources of Collinearity, coauthored by Edwin Kuh and Roy Welsch, was published by Wiley in 1980. A solely-authored extension of that work, Conditioning Diagnostics: Collinearity and Weak Data in Regression was published in 1991. Both volumes have been among the most cited works by any member of the department and have established standard practices for dealing with issues of collinearity and conditioning in empirical research.
More photos from the party...The latest additions to the department's roster of Ph.D.s are Eren Inci, Marissa Ginn and Yoto Yotov.
Eren Inci, a native of Turkey, defended his dissertation on April 25. He wrote "Public Policy Towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation" advised by Prof. Richard Arnott. Dr. Inci has accepted a position in the economics department of Sabançi University in Istanbul.
Marissa Ginn, a native of Canada, defended her dissertation on May 1. She wrote "Three Essays in Macroeconomics" advised by Murray and Monti Prof. Peter Ireland. Dr. Ginn will be working in the Montréal office of The Analysis Group.
Yoto Yotov, a native of Bulgaria, defended his dissertation on May 2. He wrote "Labor Market Imperfections, Political Pressure, and Trade Patterns" advised by Neenan Prof. James Anderson. Dr. Yotov has accepted a position in the economics department of Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Our congratulations to Dr. Inci, Dr. Ginn and Dr. Yotov.
6 May 2007The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Margarita Sapozhnikov who defended on March 21. She wrote "Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics," advised by Roche Prof. Frank Gollop. She has accepted a position in the Energy and Environmental practice at Charles River Associates in Boston. Our congratulations to Dr. Sapozhnikov.
21 March 2007The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Jingzhi Ginger Meng, a native of People's Republic of China, who defended on February 7. She wrote "Two Essays in Applied Econometrics and Finance," advised by Roche Prof. Arthur Lewbel. Our congratulations to Dr. Meng.
16 Feb 2007
Professor Peter Gottschalk's research on the rise in income equality was cited in the January 6, 2007 issue of The Economist. Gottschalk and coauthor Prof. Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University were said to be "the first economists to disentangle how much of the rise in income inequality was due to long-term changes in earnings and how much due to temporary instability. Their most recent report suggests that temporary earnings volatility rose sharply in the 1980s, fell in the 1990s and has risen again in recent years."
Their work was referenced in a full-page feature Economics focus: Shifting sands by the prestigious newsweekly. Their paper "Trends in earnings volatility in the US: 1970-2002" was presented at the annual meetings of the American Economic Association in Chicago earlier this month.
In their presentation, which will appear as a BC EC Working Paper at a later date, Gottschalk and Moffitt state "We update our prior work on charting trends in the transitory variance of earnings in the U.S. since the 1970s. We again use panel data from the Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID), available through 2002. The data reveal three facts: (1) the transitory
variance has continued to rise, on average, through 2002; (2) its rise has not been even, for it rises strongly in some periods and declines in others; and (3) the sufficiently long period of the data now shows that the transitory variance follows a highly cyclical pattern, and accounting for cyclical effects is necessary to determine when the variance rose, which we estimate to be
primarily in the late 1980s and late 1990s-early 2000s." Their earlier work, "Trends in the Variances of Permanent and Transitory Earnings in the U.S. and their Relation to Earnings Mobility", is available as BC EC WP 444.
Murray and Monti Professor Peter N. Ireland has assumed his duties as the managing editor of Elsevier's Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. The editorial office of this prestigious journal is now located at Boston College, with website http://jedc.com.
13 January 2007In the 2006 College Fed Challenge--a competition held November 8 at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington--a Boston College team of six undergraduates: Christina Alyward, Margaret Walton, Jamison Davies and returning members Genna Ghaul, Nikki Tyler, and Andrew Varani won second place, with Northwestern University taking the top honors. The team will share a prize of $10,000, and the University receives an aditional $5,000 grant from the Moody's Foundation.
The team's placement in the national round followed their first-place finish in the First District College Fed Challenge, held November 9 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The BC team faced first-round opponents Dartmouth and Tufts and second-round opponents UMass-Boston and Bryant College. The field of nine college teams also included Harvard, Western New England College, Bridgewater State and Salem State. The BC Fed Challenge team was advised by Assistant Prof. Fabio Ghironi and Associate Prof. Robert Murphy.
The College Fed Challenge is intended to help students become more knowledgeable about the Fed and the decision-making process of the Federal Open Market Committee, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy-setting group. It is intended to promote greater understanding of the Federal Reserve's role in developing and implementing monetary policy; greater interest in economics and finance as a subject for advanced study and as the basis for a career; research, presentation, critical thinking, and cooperation skills; and a closer relationship between colleges and the Federal Reserve System.
Teams consist of three to five undergraduates from the same college or university. A team's participation involves two parts: a 20-minute presentation and a 15-minute Q&A session led by a panel of judges (usually economics professionals, college faculty and/or Fed officials). Presentations include a discussion of current economic and financial conditions; a near-term forecast of economic and financial conditions that affect monetary policy; identification of risks that threaten the economic well-being of the country; and a recommendation as to the action the Fed should take with regard to short-term interest rates. During the Q&A session, judges may ask questions about arguments made or data addressed in the team's presentation; how policy-makers might respond to hypothetical economic scenarios; and the Fed's monetary policy-making and implementation process.
Additional information and a photo of the team in action is presented in a feature story of Boston College Magazine.
19 Dec 2006This spring semester, the list of graduate elective courses will include an innovative new offering: EC 840, Evolutionary Economics, developed by Profs. Ingela Alger and Don Cox.
This one-semester graduate course will investigate how evolutionary thought- evolutionary biology in particular- helps us to better understand a central concept in economics: the utility function. Why are people risk averse? Why are they impatient? Standard economic analyses usually take utility functions as given; economists are often wary of delving too deeply into this "black box." Such circumspection is rapidly becoming obsolete with advances in neuroscientific knowledge and technology such as MRI scans coupled with well-established theories from evolutionary biology
In addition to risk aversion and time preference, evolutionary thought will be brought to bear on a variety of diverse topics such as: habits and addiction; violence; adolescent risk taking; sexual behavior; mating preferences; marriage and divorce; rearing and investing in children; extended families; trade and specialization; human cooperation and conflict; cults and gangs; religion; interactions between genetic and cultural forces; social learning, including fads, fashion and imitative and herd behavior; behavioral finance; concerns for relative status; civic life; warfare and aggression; mental accounts; self-serving biases and delusional behavior; political revolutions; the psychology of guilt, shame, spite and revenge; the psychology of pleasure, and more.
31 October 2006
Professor Peter N. Ireland has been appointed to the department's third endowed chair: the Murray and Monti Chair in Economics.
Peter Ireland joined the Boston College faculty as a Professor in 1998. He earned the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1991 and served as an economist and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, later holding a faculty position at Rutgers University.
Ireland is a research associate in the Monetary Economics Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and is an editor of Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics. His own research has appeared in a number of prestigious journals, including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, International Economic Review and Journal of Monetary Economics.
Ireland has played important roles in the Department and the University, chairing the department during a period of senior hiring and the move to 21 Campanella Way. He has been instrumental in the University's Strategic Planning Initiative. Ireland has worked with many Ph.D. students with interests in monetary and macroeconomics, chairing nine Ph.D. dissertation committees since 2002.
Last year's faculty recruitment season led to the hire of Assistant Prof. Shannon Seitz, who has joined the department faculty this summer. Shannon, a labor economist, received her PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 2000, and served as an assistant professor of economics at Queen's University. She also served as a Visiting Faculty Associate at the University of Maryland's Population Research Center in 2002. Her publications include "Domestic Violence, Employment and Divorce", with Audra Bowlus, forthcoming in the International Economic Review. Seitz's ongoing research considers the evaluation of social programs, search and matching models, intra-household allocations, and long-term trends in marriage, fertility, and family labor supply.
Seitz will be teaching undergraduate econometrics and one of the graduate electives in labor economics this academic year. We are delighted to welcome her to Boston College.
Associate Prof. Luisa Lambertini has resigned to take a position at Claremont McKenna College.
1 September 2006Professor Tayfun Sönmez was presented with the Boston College Junior Research Award in a Faculty Day ceremony on May 8, 2006. This award, presented to only one faculty member per year, was conferred by Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties Bert Garza. The citation stated that Sönmez had "drawn national acclaim for his work in microeconomic theory and mechanism design." Sonmez is completing his first year at Boston College.
Sönmez becomes the third member of the economics faculty to have received one of the University's Research Awards. Prof. James E. Anderson was one of the inaugural recipients of the Distinguished Research Award in 1999, while Prof. Arthur Lewbel received the award in 2004.
23 May 2006The latest addition to the department's roster of Ph.D.s is Sheila Campbell, a native of the USA, who defended her dissertation on August 11. She wrote "Two-Sided Markets with a Negative Network Effect: Radio, Advertisers and Audiences" advised by Prof. Frank Gollop. Dr. Campbell has accepted a position as an Assistant Analyst in the Microeconomic Studies Division of the Congressional Budget Office.
Our congratulations to Dr. Campbell.
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