Christopher F "Kit" Baum has been promoted to Professor. Baum joined the BC faculty in 1977 after completing the Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor. He earned the M.A. at Florida Atlantic University after completing the B.A. at Kalamazoo College. Baum was promoted to Associate Professor in 1983, and has served as the department's technology coordinator for much of that time. He directed the Ph.D. program in 1990-1995 and co-directs the undergraduate minor in Scientific Computation with Prof. Jan Engelbrecht of the physics department. He has served as one of the Moderators of the Faculty Micro Resource Center since 2001.
Baum has been given a courtesy appointment in BC's Graduate School of Social Work, reflecting his collaboration with GSSW faculty on several research projects. He has served as a DIW Research Professor at Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftforschung (DIW Berlin) since 2007, and has led a course in economic policy analysis at DIW for the last three summers. His research interests lie in applied econometrics, monetary and macroeconomics. His 2006 book An Introduction to Modern Econometrics using Stata has been widely acclaimed, and this year appeared in Chinese translation. He is also the author of An Introduction to Stata Programming, and regularly offers short courses in applied econometrics at the IMF's Institute for Capacity Development and Singapore's Civil Service College. He is also a key player in the RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) initiative, maintaining the Statistical Software Components archive on that site.
Our congratulations to Prof. Baum.