BU Economics honors Santiago Levy with inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Santiago Levy has been selected as the recipient of the Department’s first Distinguished Alumni Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievements in any area by graduates of one of the Department’s degree programs. Santiago Levy makes a natural choice for our first award both because of his […]
BU Economics PhD student Elisabeth Perlman awarded Sokoloff dissertation fellowship
Elisabeth Perlman has won a Sokoloff dissertation fellowship from the Economic History Association. The Sokoloff fellowships are funded by an endowment from the estate of the late Ken Sokoloff, and are the highest awards that the EHA gives to graduate students. For more information regarding the Sokoloff fellowships, please see https://eh.net/eha/grants-and-fellowships/
BU Economics Professor Claudia Olivetti on how mothers affect their daughters’ work choices
BU Economics Professor Claudia Olivetti was recently interviewed by BU Today about her work “exploring how the work practices of a teenager’s mother and that of her friends’ mothers affects her work decisions in adulthood”. What could companies and the government do to further support working mothers? There are two things that are really important. […]
BU Economics Professor Pierre Perron honored by Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Peru
BU Economics Professor Pierre Perron has been appointed as Doctor Honoris Causa of Pontificia Universidad Católica of Perú. A translation of the university’s resolution reads, in part, Pierre Perron, Doctor (Ph.D) in Economics from Yale University and Professor of the Department of Economics at Boston University, is a prominent Canadian economist, considered one of the […]
BU Economics Professor Simon Gilchrist’s research on Fed policy
BU Economics Professor Simon Gilchrist’s research was recently featured in the WSJ. In a new working paper… from the Fed, three economists examined two-year Treasury yields on days the central bank announced policy changes and related effects on 10-year Treasury yields, a benchmark for mortgage rates and other loans, as well as corporate bonds and […]
BU Economics Professor Kevin Lang on the minimum wage debate
BU Economics Professor Kevin Lang recently weighed in on the minimum wage debate on New England Cable News. During his State of the Union speech, President Obama called on Congress to give America a raise. Dozens of states across the nation are already considering doing just that. To talk about the economics of a minimum […]
BU Economics Professor Laurence Kotlikoff on the corporate income tax
BU Economics Professor Laurence Kotlikoff recently published an op-ed piece in The New York Times titled “Abolish the Corporate Income Tax”. Jobs don’t grow out of thin air, especially well-paying ones. They require, among other things, companies that are willing to operate where you live. Just ask the Seattle-based District 751 of the machinists’ union, […]
BU Economics PhD students’ recent scholarships & awards
Alessandro Casini received one of three “B. Stringher” Scholarship from the Bank of Italy. In addition, his undergraduate thesis has been awarded the “Angelo Costa” prize and will be published in the journal Rivista di Politica Economica. This is the main Italian economic journal, which each year publishes the five best undergraduate theses in Economics. […]
BU Economics PhD students’ fellowship activity
The Department of Economics is proud to report on fellowships recently awarded to our PhD students. Richard Baker received a Dissertation Fellowship from the Economic History Association for the 2013-14 academic year. See http://eh.net/eha/grants-and-fellowships/ for details on the program. Jasmina Hasanhodzic received an NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellowship on the Economics of an Aging Workforce for the […]
BU Economics PhD student selected to attend WEAI’s 2014 Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop
Michael Gechter was one of 16 Ph.D. students selected to participate in WEAI’s 2014 Graduate Student Dissertation Workshop. This hands-on experience in job-market paper presentation and interviewing skills will be held in conjunction with WEAI’s 89th Annual Conference, June 27 to July 1, 2014, at the Grand Hyatt Denver. The selection committee chose from among […]