Last year's faculty recruitment season was exceedingly successful, with the department filling each of the three authorized positions with an excellent candidate. Two of the new faculty, Eyal Dvir and Georg Strasser, work in the field of International Economics. Eyal, who is completing his Ph.D. at Harvard, will be teaching the graduate trade course and the undergraduate course in international finance in the fall. Georg, who is completing his Ph.D. at Penn, will be teaching a new graduate course in international finance next year. Georg's course will be offered in the spring, as will Fabio Ghironi's graduate international finance course, leading to a new graduate field in international finance. Strasser will be teaching macro theory at the undergraduate level. Joining the faculty as an associate professor will be M. Utku Ünver, who is coming to BC from the University of Pittsburgh, where he has been an Assistant Professor since 2005. Utku is a microtheorist who specializes in market design. He is particularly well known for his joint research on kidney exchange with Tayfun Sönmez and Alvin Roth. Ünver will teach undergraduate micro theory and in graduate micro theory next year.
With these three hires, the department returns to full authorized strength: an essential element of meeting the very strong demand for economics courses. We are delighted to welcome Profs. Dvir, Strasser and Ünver to the Boston College economics faculty.
7 July 2008