The 134th commencement exercises of Boston College were held on 24 May 2010. Twelve economics students received the Ph.D. since the last commencement. They are listed with their thesis topics and advisors. Giuseppe Fiori, "Essays on Investment, Regulation and Labor Market Frictions" (Matteo Iacoviello); Elizaveta Shevyakhova, "Two Essays in Economics" (Arthur Lewbel); Nicholas Sim, "Modeling Quantile Dependence" (Zhijie Xiao); Olga Sorokina, "Essays in Credit Constraints and Education" (Donald Cox); Vitaliy Strohush, "Aggregate Shocks, Idiosyncratic Shocks and Global Imbalances" (Matteo Iacoviello); Wei Sun, "Three Essays on the Economic Decisions Faced by Elderly Households" (Alicia Munnell); Hi-Lin Tan, "Essays in Network Economics and Game Theory" (Richard Arnott); Pinar Uysal, "Essays in Macroeconomics" (Fabio Ghironi); Chi Wan, "Essays in Financial Economics" (Zhijie Xiao); Megan McDonald Way, "Essays in Intergenerational Transfers" (Donald Cox); Sisi Zhang, "Essays on Income Volatility and Household Behavior" (Peter Gottschalk); and Andrei Zlate, "Essays on Offshore Production, Labor Migration and the Macroeconomy (Fabio Ghironi).
Fifteen students were awarded the M.A. at the commencement exercises: Mario Arend Serrano, Orhan Aygun, Inacio Bó, Stacey Chan, Xiaoping Chen, Mikhail Dmitriev, Xinhao Dong, Lucrezio Figurelli, Sinan Karadayi, Md Shahed Khan, John O'Trakoun, Chen-Yu Pan, Melissa Pumphrey, Kimiaki Shinozaki, and Ekin Üstün.
Our congratulations to all!
24 May 2010