The 132nd commencement exercises of Boston College were held on 19 May 2008. Eleven economics students received the Ph.D. since the last commencement. They are listed with their thesis topics and advisors. Darrel Barbato, "Essays in applied microeconometrics" (Frank Gollop); Lewis Gaul, "Essays in macroeconomics and finance" (Fabio Schiantarelli); Marissa Ginn, "Three essays in applied macroeconomics" (Peter Ireland); Eren Inci, "Public policy towards entrepreneurship and innovation" (Richard Arnott); Gökçe Kurucu, "Essays on markets with network externalities" (Hideo Konishi); Jingzhi Ginger Meng, "Two essays in applied econometrics and finance" (Arthur Lewbel); Tatiana Mihailovschi-Muntean, "Monetary and fiscal policy mix as insurance in a model with heterogeneous agents" (Peter Ireland); Maria Punzi, "Essays on housing market and current account imbalances" (Fabio Ghironi and Matteo Iacoviello); Pallavi Seth, "Monopsony power and asymmetric information: Microeconometrics applied to health care" (Frank Gollop); Mauricio Soto, "The effects of pension funding rules on the behavior of firms" (Donald Cox); and Viktors Stebunovs, "Finance as a barrier to entry in dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium models" (Fabio Ghironi and Peter Ireland).
Sixteen students were awarded the M.A. at the commencement exercises: Samson Alva, Alessandro Barattieri, Rucha Bhate, Anna Blank, Isabella Blengini, Daniel Bliss, Aaron Fix, Francis Georges, Wataru Hirata, Shoghik Hovhannisyan, Chuanliang Jiang, Sailu Li, Murat Mungan, Shannon Phillips, Radoslav Raykov and Caglar Yurtseven.
Our congratulations to all!
3 July 2008