The department filled two positions during the spring hiring season, both of which increase our strength in important fields.
Associate Prof. Mehmet Ekmekci joins us from the University of Pittsburgh, adding to our substantial game theory/mechanism design group. He also served on the faculty of Northwestern University and visited Yale University after receiving the Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2006. He holds an undergraduate degree from Bogaziçi University in Istanbul. His interests include game theory, information aggregation, bargaining and search, and takeovers. He has published repeatedly in Journal of Economic Theory, Review of Economic Studies and American Economic Review.
Assistant Prof. Dongho Song joins us from the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned the Ph.D. He holds undergraduate and master's degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea. His interests lie in risk management and modeling in economics and finance. His work with dissertation advisor Frank Schorfheide appears in two NBER papers and a festschrift for the late Halbert White.
Chalak leaves BC
Assistant Prof. Karim Chalak, a member of the BC economics faculty since 2007, has left the University and taken a position at the department of economics, University of Virginia.