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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.
You may now enter a waitlist reservation for a closed course. Please click here to continue to a description of the department's new waitlist management tool.
Quinn returns to department and is awarded chair
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.
Popularity of economics major risesA 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 2007An addition to the company of scholarsThe 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 2008 |
Karim Chalak joins the BC faculty
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 2007BC EC 2007 and all prior issues availableThe October, 2007 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. We are trying to ensure that we have correct snailmail and email addresses for all alumni. If you are an alumnus/alumna, please email your name, graduation year and preferred email to econ@fmwww.bc.edu. The addresses will not be used for anything except infrequent communications from the Department. 20 October 2007Richard Arnott and Ingela Alger leave BCProf. 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. Marina Pavan and Douglas Marcouiller not to returnAssistant 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 2007BC EC Alumni research highlighted
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 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 Recent news from the Department of Economics...Website statistics |
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