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.
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.