Nine Ph.D.'s awarded in University commencement

The 128th Commencement Exercises of Boston College were held on Monday, 24 May 2004, on the Chestnut Hill campus. Nine economics students were awarded the Ph.D., having completed all requirements for the degree since the 2004 commencement.

The latest members of BC Economics' community of scholars (and their advisors) include: Elaine Fleming, "Provider Networks in Health Care Markets" (Peter Gottschalk); Zhining Hu, "Essays on Monetary Economics and Macroeconomics" (Peter Ireland); Pavel Nazartsev, "Three Essays on Auctions and Market Structure" (Frank Gollop); Pornpilai Ongardanunkul, "Essays on Network Externalities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses" (Frank Gollop); Niki X. Papadopoulou, "Essays on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: Theory and Empirical Analysis" (Peter Ireland); Tairi Room, "Essays on Labor Markets and Empirical Finance" (Peter Ireland); Mirco Soffritti, "Discretion versus Rules in a Small Open Economy" (Peter Ireland); Yuriy Tchamourliyski, "Essays in Applied Economics" (James Anderson); and Anh Thanh-Tu Vu, "Essays on the Political Economy of Economic Reform in Vietnam" (James Anderson and Richard Arnott).

In addition, masters' degrees were conferred on Darrel Barbato, Madhavi Deshmukh, Lewis Gaul, Marissa Ginn, Danqing Hu, Eren Inci, Gokce Kurucu, Tatiana Mihailovschi-Muntean, Pallavi Seth, Pinar Uysal, Felipe van Cauwelart and Yoto Yotov. Our congratulations to all!

21 Jun 2004