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Eleven Econ Ph.D.'s awarded in BC commencementThe 130th Commencement Exercises of Boston College were held on Monday, 22 May 2006, on the Chestnut Hill campus. Eleven economics students were awarded the Ph.D., having completed all requirements for the degree since the 2005 commencement. The latest members of BC Economics' community of scholars (and their advisors) include: Amrita Bhattacharyya, "Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Advertising in Specialized Markets" (Frank Gollop); Shihe Fu, "Essays on Urban Agglomeration Economics" (Richard Arnott); Kolver Hernández, "State-Dependent Nominal Rigidities and Economic Fluctuations" (Peter Ireland); Emmanuel Lartey, "Capital Inflows, Dutch Disease Effects and Monetary Policy" (Fabio Ghironi and Peter Ireland); Asli Leblebicioglu, "Essays on Financial Integration and Growth" (Fabio Schiantarelli); Federico Mandelman, "Business Cycles: A Role for Imperfect Competition in the Banking System" (Fabio Ghironi); Rasim Ozcan, "Essays on Auctions: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations" (Richard Arnott); Kameliia Petrova, "Essays on Entrepreneurship, Motivation and Autonomy" (Peter Gottschalk); Andrew Samuel, "Essays on the Economics of Corruption" (Richard Arnott); Bedri Tas, "Asymmetric Information, Stock Returns and Monetary Policy: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis (Peter Ireland); and Paola Zerilli, "Essays in Asset Pricing" (Arthur Lewbel). In addition, masters' degrees were conferred on Idil Edes, Tatiana Farina, Guiseppi Fiori, Nadezhda Karamcheva, Sergiy Kasyanenko, Xianzheng Kong, Nicola Lostumbo, Kamer Madjarov, Zhi Qiu, Justin Ross, Nicholas Sim, Dessislava Slavtcheva, Vitaliy Strohush, Chi Wan, Sisi Zhang and Andrei Zlate. Our congratulations to all! 23 May 2006BC EC 2005 hits the pressThe October, 2005 edition of BC EC, the department's annual newsletter, is now available in PDF format. |
Economics graduates garner A&S awards
Economics was well represented at the annual College of Arts and Sciences awards ceremony, held on May 21, 2006 in a packed Robsham Theatre. The Alice E. Bourneuf Award, given to an outstanding senior economics major, was shared by Jamie Lee and Gregory Wiles. Wiles also received the Mary A. and Katherine G. Finneran Commencement Award, one of the College's highest honors. Lee also received the distinction of a Scholar of the College. The Giffuni Prize, awarded for an outstanding thesis in economics, was shared by Kevin Czerniak and Jamie Lee (pictured above). Czerniak, also a Scholar of the College, had been awarded the John McCarthy, SJ Award in the Social Sciences in a ceremony on May 1. The McCarthy prizes, given in natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and history are awarded to the most distinguished Scholar of the College projects. 23 May 2006Tayfun Sönmez receives Junior Research AwardProfessor Tayfun Sönmez was presented with the Boston College Junior Research Award in a Faculty Day ceremony on May 8, 2006. This award, presented to only one faculty member per year, was conferred by Academic Vice President and Dean of Faculties Bert Garza. The citation stated that Sönmez had "drawn national acclaim for his work in microeconomic theory and mechanism design." Sonmez is completing his first year at Boston College. Sönmez becomes the third member of the economics faculty to have received one of the University's Research Awards. Prof. James E. Anderson was one of the inaugural recipients of the Distinguished Research Award in 1999, while Prof. Arthur Lewbel received the award in 2004. 23 May 2006Recent news from the Department of Economics...Website statistics |
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