Dr. Luigi Pascali, an August 2010 graduate of the Economics Ph.D. program, is this year's co-recipient of the Donald J. White Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in the social sciences in Boston College's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Pascali wrote "Essays in Growth, Development, and International Trade", advised by Profs. James Anderson, Susanto Basu, and Fabio Schiantarelli. In his jobmarket search last year, he was appointed to a position at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, one of Europe's most prestigious institutions in economics. Pascali's selection reflects the innovative nature of his work, one essay of which explores the relationship between the 14th-15th century economic landscape and economic development today.
21 May 2011