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Boston University’s Economics Department is proud to introduce an outstanding cohort of job market candidates for the 2023-2024 season. Follow this thread to learn about students’ JMPs, or go to to find out more. #EconTwitter

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Professor Pascual Restrepo has been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure for his outstanding research, teaching, and service. You can read more about his profile here:

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Professor @benjaminmarx starts with us this semester. He comes from @sciencespo where he was an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD from @MITEcon . He works on political economy, development economics, and economic history. Check out his website:

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Welcome to my website! I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at Boston University. I am also affiliated with NBER, BREAD, CEPR, and J-PAL. My research interests are in political...

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BU Economics

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Boston University’s Economics Department is proud to introduce an outstanding cohort of job market candidates. Follow this thread to learn about students’ JMPs, or go to to find out more. #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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2 years

Boston University’s Economics Department is proud to introduce an outstanding cohort of job market candidates for the 2022-2023 season. Follow this thread to learn about students’ JMPs, or go to to find out more. #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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4 years

Ibram X. Kendi, Leading Scholar of Racism, to Join BU and Launch BU Center for Antiracist Research

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BU Economics

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2 years

Two members of BU's Department of Economics have been promoted to full Professor, Tarek Hassan and Johannes Schmieder. You can check out their outstanding accomplishments here: Congratulations, Prof. Hassan and Prof. Schmieder!

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BU Economics

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The entire department and many past students are saddened to learn of the recent death of Jonathan Eaton, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Penn State. Prof. Eaton was a member of our department from 1990-2002.

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BU Economics

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The @BU_UEA announces the formation of the BU Economic Review, a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to advancing high-quality undergraduate research. Economics students at BU should consider applying. Learn more:

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BU Economics

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2 years

Professor Ivan Fernandez Val has been elected as a Fellow of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE). Among other activities, the IAAE publishes The Journal of Applied Econometrics. To learn more, visit: and

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BU Economics

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10 months

@Forrest_CJ Matteo Ferroni’s ( @matteoferroni93 ) JMP studies what causes democratic values to change after polarizing elections. Looking at the 2022 Brazilian election, he highlights the role played by shocks to the economic expectations of extreme supporters. Web:

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BU Economics

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3 years

Hanna Schwank’s ( @hanna_schwank ) job market paper studies the short- and long-run consequences of the 1906 San Francisco Fire, finding negative and persistent effects for those who lost their homes to the flames. Web: JMP:

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BU Economics

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10 months

Sophie Li's ( @sophieli_econ ) JMP examines the effect of a woman-friendly occupation by exploring a unique historical setting -- U.S. postmasters before WWII. The occupation attracted qualified women but offered few benefits to women's employment beyond the appointed term.

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BU Economics

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1 year

Hanna Schwank, Asst. Prof. of Economic History at the @UniBonn who graduated with a PhD from BU Economics in 2022, has been awarded the 2023 Reinhard Selten Award. For more, see here: To see more about Dr. Schwank, see here:

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BU Economics

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Professor @DanielePaserman has been named President of the Society of the Economics of the Household, the leading academic society in this important field. See more here:

SEHO

Society of Economics of the Household (SEHO) SEHO aims to promote the field of Household Economics, which encompasses all decisions made by households at both the micro-economic and macroeconomic...

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BU Economics

@bu_economics

3 years

Thomas Pearson’s ( @tpearson_tweets ) JMP studies how U.S. deportations impact workers in Mexico using variation in migrant networks and Secure Communities, a policy which expanded local immigration enforcement. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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1 year

Santiago Levy is a “triple threat” with a BA, MA, and PhD all from BU Economics. He will be named a @BU_Tweets Distinguished Alum, BU’s highest alumni honor, at Alumni Weekend on September 23. Read more here:

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BU Economics

@bu_economics

3 years

Enrico De Magistris' ( @e_demagistris ) Job Market Paper studies a theoretical model showing that having an endogenous outside option does not necessarily translate into a strong bargaining position. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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1 year

Professor Pierre Perron was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa (an honorary doctorate) from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru ( @pucp ) for his remarkable accomplishments in research on time series econometrics. Read more here:

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BU Economics

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Professor @jamesfeigenbaum appeared on the June 8th episode of the podcast @planetmoney , produced by @NPR . The title of the episode is “NPR’s ‘Planet Money’ creates an episode using artificial intelligence.” Check out the episode here:

NPR's 'Planet Money' creates an episode using artificial intelligence

The team at Planet Money put artificial intelligence to the test, by seeing if it could report a radio story.

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BU Economics

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3 years

Stefano Pica's ( @pica_ste ) JMP studies the role of housing market institutions in explaining the heterogeneity of monetary policy effectiveness across the euro area. He uses a structural model to discuss policy-relevant counterfactuals. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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6 months

Prof. Adam Guren was part of a commission tasked by Boston Mayor @MayorWu with evaluating the prospects for property tax abatement to increase the supply of housing in Boston. The report was released as a @BostonFed working paper:

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BU Economics

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3 years

Vittoria Dicandia’s ( @vitto_dicandia ) JMP argues, both empirically and with a model, that routine-biased technological change contributed to dampening racial wage gap convergence in 1980-2000. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

@bu_economics

3 years

Kexin Zhang’s JMP uses a natural experiment in China to show that higher education leads to different labor market, marriage, and migration outcomes over an individual's life cycle; and interestingly, some of the impacts differ largely by gender. Web:

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BU Economics

@bu_economics

1 year

Governor of Massachusetts ( @MassGovernor ) Maura Healy named Kevin Lang, the Lawrence A. Bloom Professor of Economics, to the Advisory Council for the Advancement of Representation in Education. Read more here:

Ahead of Supreme Court Decision on Race-Based Admissions, Healey-Driscoll Administration Takes...

Creates Advisory Council to Advance Representation in Education, Expands College and Career Readiness Tools

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BU Economics

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2 years

@masyhurh In @AakashKalyani ’s JMP, he proposes a text-based measure of patent creativity and argues the rise in patenting and slowdown in productivity growth over the last few decades is explained by a declining share of creative patents, partly driven by a lack of younger inventors.

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BU Economics

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4 years

The Rosenthal Memorial Lecture goes virtual tomorrow! Tune in. All are welcome.

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BU Economics

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4 years

BU WEorg will host a Mentoring Workshop on Oct. 3rd for 3rd & 4th year female PhD students in the greater New England area. Please visit to check out the program, list of confirmed mentors & panelists, and application instructions. Deadline is Aug. 1st.

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BU Economics

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Eric Donald’s JMP studies the role of cross-technology knowledge spillovers in the transition to clean technology. Typical models exclude such spillovers, but he argues they are crucial for both describing the impact of policy reforms and prescribing optimal innovation policy.

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BU Economics

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3 years

Joseph Simmons’ JMP demonstrates that strategic complementarity in price-setting among retailers is quantitatively consistent with volatile item-level prices in the data while generating significant monetary non-neutrality. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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3 years

Martin Shu's ( @martinsyshu ) JMP studies whether low labor productivity growth in services is due to lower efficacy of workers moved from manufacturing. The effect is mixed, raising labor productivity in professional svc., reducing that in education, health.

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BU Economics

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Nayeon Lim's ( @NayeonLim_econ ) JMP examines the impact of expanding public childcare for young children on parental labor market outcomes in West Germany, revealing a significant reduction in child penalties for mothers in terms of earnings, labor supply, wages, and job mobility.

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BU Economics

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3 years

Kewei Zhang’s JMP provides evidence of a novel positive effect of favor exchange between governments and private firms, realized through higher, potentially welfare-improving investment. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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2 years

@masyhurh Rubaiyat Alam's JMP i) shows that hospices dynamically choose quality to accumulate reputation and attract consumers, ii) estimates hospice cost function, iii) explores counterfactual policies to incentivize better hospice quality. Web:

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BU Economics

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3 years

Pablo Guzman-Pinto's ( @guzmanpintop ) JMP exploits institutional features and administrative data to measure gains in efficiency by financing unemployment benefits with individual savings accounts in Chile. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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2 years

Chuqing Jin’s ( @chuqing_jin ) JMP estimates a model of financial analyst competition. She finds that analysts strategically distort their forecasts to outperform rivals, and she considers policy reforms to enhance information quality. Web:

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BU Economics

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Professor @JoshGoodman_BU , who is appointed in both the Department of Economics in CAS and @BUWheelock , spent the year in Washington, DC on the Council of Economic Advisors for the Biden Administration. Read more here:

From Wheelock to Washington

Associate Professor Joshua Goodman is spending a year with the Biden administration’s Council of Economic Advisers

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BU Economics

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Miaoqing Jia’s ( @andiedream128 ) JMP constructs a multi-period model to investigate the reasoning behind the ineffectiveness of China’s health care system reform in correcting patients’ excessive use of medicine. Web: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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2 years

Masyhur Hilmy's ( @masyhurh ) JMP studies how local governments respond to the windfall of migrant remittances. He shows the state complements household investments with more public goods. Web:

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BU Economics

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Alden Porter’s JMP finds wage growth at occupation-employer transitions exceeds what is implied by a model with individual and occupation fixed effects. I estimate worker relative manual, cognitive and interactive skills to show that skill-task matching can account for this.

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BU Economics

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1 year

Economics Professor Randall Ellis, Professor Juan Ortner, PhD student Nayeon Lim, and PhD student Marco Olivari won summer grants from The Center for Innovation on the Social Scientists ( @BU_CISS ). You can read more about their projects here:

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BU Economics

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Yiming Cao's ( @YimingCao_ ) JMP shows that corruption and rent-seeking create societal vulnerabilities, yet the costs may be latent and hard to observe in the absence of a negative shock. Website: JMP: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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3 years

Deen Islam's JMP shows that workers in large cities perform less routine-type tasks and firms with automated production technology sort into large urban areas, and this leads to a greater spatial wage inequality. Website: JMP link:

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BU Economics

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2 years

@BeixiZhou César Garro-Marín’s ( @csargarr ) JMP studies how women’s birthplace affects their labor force participation in Indonesia, exploiting variation in the age internal migrants left their birthplace. Web:

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BU Economics

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4 years

Please join us on WED 10/28 from 5-7 PM at the virtual PhD Career Information Meeting hosted by the PhD Alumni Council and the BU Institute for Economic Development. Contact kbenkert @bu .edu for further information.

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BU Economics

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3 years

Yoshifumi Yokota's job market paper studies implementable outcomes in robust information design problem where the designer is aware that signals can be misunderstood. Web: JMP: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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5 years

The Rosenthal Memorial Lecture Series remembers Bob Rosenthal, a prominent and beloved professor in the Department who passed away unexpectedly 19 years ago. This year's talk can be viewed at

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BU Economics

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Beixi Zhou's ( @BeixiZhou ) JMP shows in a disclosure game where an agent controls the time window over which information flows to a decision maker but not the information content, starting disclosure later leads to a longer disclosure window. Web:

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BU Economics

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Nils Lehr ( @lehr_h ) documents large and persistent differences in R&D returns across firms, which he links to firms’ monopsony power over inventors. Interpreted through a model, his estimates suggest significant growth cost of inventor monopsony. Web:

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BU Economics

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Alex Hoagland's ( @Hoagland_Alex ) JMP shows that ppl learn abt health risks after family health events. This information ⬆ preventive screenings, but overreactions in its interpretation may limit ex-post welfare gains. Web: JMP:

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BU Economics

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3 years

Fangning Yan's job market paper estimates a spatial structural model of activity on a Chinese bike-sharing platform. He quantifies externalities between consumers in bike-use behavior and the efficiency loss due to spatial mismatch between consumers and bikes.

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BU Economics

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1 year

James B. Rebitzer, Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor of Management @BUQuestrom and affiliate of the Department of Economics, has published a new book titled “Why Not Better and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation.” See more about the book here:

Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation

Abstract. Why doesn’t healthcare get better and cheaper? The evolution of the cell phones that we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increa

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BU Economics

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3 years

Guangzhi Ye's( @guangzhi_ye ) JMP builds a GE heterogeneous firm model to examine the quantitative aggregate implications of a declining recovery rate due to rising intangibles. Web: JMP: #EconTwitter

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BU Economics

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10 months

@NayeonLim_econ Patrick Power's ( @pharringtonp19 ) Job Market Paper examines the impact of providing legal representation to tenants facing eviction on housing stability for the broader low-income population. Web:

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BU Economics

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1 year

Prof. Juan Ortner has been awarded a Jerry S. Cohen Award for Antitrust Scholarship for the Best Antitrust Article in 2022 on Collusion in Auctions. To learn more about the award, visit: Read the article at:

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5 years

Job market candidates refining their skills at a biannual writing and presentation workshop.

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8 months

Professor @linhtto and Randall Ellis of the Economics Department, along with Professor @cortespatico of @BUQuestrom , have won a two-year grant to study biases in self-assessment that affect the success of women in academia. Read more here:

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3 years

Jingye Wang’s JMP shows that currency risk has significant real effects: it can be linked to GDP correlations and induce substantial cross-country variation in capital-output ratios as in the data. Web: JMP: #EconTwitter

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1 year

The 2023 edition of the Research Review from the Institute for Economic Development at Boston University is now published. The Review includes working paper summaries from 2022-23, faculty profiles, graduate student grants, prizes, and more. Read it here:

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2 years

@masyhurh @AakashKalyani Duoxi Li's ( @duoxili ) JMP studies how market conditions, like search frictions and market thickness, affect the dynamics of long-term relationships from a game-theoretical perspective. Web:

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2 years

Liqun Zhuge's JMP looks into a marriage tradition in Chinese society that involves both a bride price and a dowry and the broad implication of a pro-women marriage law amendment in a society with high gender inequality. Web:

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BU Economics

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Luke Zinnen's JMP shows new security fraud precedent increasing issuer liability for losses due to macro events their actions facilitated brings better incentives & outcomes w/o excessive damages awarded—but not optimal security quality. Web: JMP: .../JMP

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BU Economics

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5 years

Welcome New Graduate Students!

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5 years

Today we welcomed Fall 2019 Graduate Students to the Department. The day culminated with a picnic at BU Beach with faculty, staff, new students and families.

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BU Economics

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1 year

Dr. Stacey Gelsheimer has been promoted to Senior Lecturer for her outstanding teaching and service. Read more about her accomplishments here: Congratulations, Dr. Gelsheimer!

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BU Economics

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5 years

The 2019 Department of Economics Distinguished Alumni Award was awarded to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (B.A. Economics and IR '11) and Gina Ortiz-Jones (B.A./M.A. Economics '03).

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2 years

@chuqing_jin Nicolas Guida-Johnson’s JMP considers the expansion of highways in Brazil to show that better transportation, a particular driver of development, contributes to the growth of the formal economy and the consequent decline in informality. Web:

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BU Economics

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Junhao Chen ( @Forrest_CJ ) combines unique data from medical crowdfunding platform, novel textual methods, and experiment design to identify the donors' preference for merit. Web:

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BU Economics

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10 months

Danrong Chen's JMP finds that with a sample of over 120 million individuals, within-family infection rates of pneumonia and respiratory infection rise as the number of days schools are open. Yet, the spread of influenza depends more on weather conditions and locations.

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1 year

Prof. Marc Rysman has been named a Fellow of the Thurman Arnold Project, an antitrust initiative at @YaleSOM . To learn more about the project, visit:

Thurman Arnold Project at Yale

The Thurman Arnold Project is named in honor of Thurman Arnold, Yale Law Professor and head of the Antitrust Division from 1938 to 1943, to capture the intellectual and enforcement tradition he...

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2 years

Heechul Jung's JMP builds and estimates a two-sector GE model with financing frictions to quantify the different magnitude of financing constraints for intangible- and tangible-intensive firms and the aggregate consequences of financing frictions. Web:

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BU Economics

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4 years

Boston University Undergraduate Women in Economics

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4 years

The Boston University Undergraduate Women in Economics E-board is excited to be launching our organization this semester, with our first meeting on Tues. 2/2! If you or someone you know may be interested in speaking at a UWE event, please message or email us at uwe @bu .edu

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Local alums, faculty, and friends enjoying lively conversation at this year's Distinguished Alumni Award Reception and Dinner.

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2 years

Professor Krishna Dasaratha has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Learning, Behavior, and Design in Diffusion Processes.” To learn more and see the abstract for the award, visit:

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Yuheng Zhao's JMP studies the allocative consequences of Chinese school consolidations and finds that females’ education increased and both genders had higher earnings. The increase in inequality was small compared to the efficiency increase. Web:

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Join us in supporting BU Economics and our programs!

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This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of @BU_CAS . The Economics Department will hold special events on Friday afternoon, September 22. For more details, visit:

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Prof. @lang_econ , Laurence A. Bloom Professor of Economics, was featured in a recent @planetmoney podcast episode in which they challenged Lang to experience a low technology society in response to his writing on anticipated technological change.

We dare researchers to leave the ivory tower : Planet Money

The world of economics has these two different sides. One one side, there are the economists in their cozy armchairs and dusty libraries, high up in their ivory towers. On the other, there's the...

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#BUGivingDay Update: Econ stands in 3rd place in the Donor Challenge with 39 donors, and in 3rd place in the Revenue challenge with $3,685.23! A huge thank you to everyone's who's contributed so far. Make your impact on the Econ Department today:

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Representatives from the Master's Alumni Association and the Graduate Economics Association answered questions and shared personal experiences with the new graduate students.

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5 years

The lecture was given by Stanford University Professor Paul Milgrom whose talk was entitled "Beyond the Vickrey Auction: Practical Design for Large, High-Stakes Auctions." It was an excellent example of how advanced theory can be useful in practice for solving complex problems.

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BU Econ Professor Robert Lucas will participate in a book reading organized by @BU_CISS this Friday, September 22 from 2:30-4:30. He will be reading from his recent book “Crossing the Divide: Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries” published by Oxford University Press.

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Laurence @Kotlikoff , William Fairfield Warren Professor of Economics, was interviewed by the CBS News show @60Minutes about clawbacks in Social Security. The episode is available here:

60 Minutes - Episodes, interviews, profiles, reports and 60 Minutes Overtime - CBS News

Visit 60 Minutes on CBS News: Watch the most successful TV broadcast in history, offering investigative reports, interviews, feature segments, episodes and profiles.

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Professor @blipman58 has been reelected for second-term as Executive Vice-President of the @econometricsoc . It plays a critical role in one of the most high-profile societies in Economics. See more here:

News

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Econ alumni, faculty and students at the Streeten Lecture reception on March 29, 2019.

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Arup Sen earned his PhD in economics in 2014 and is now leading the NBA’s team for integrity, which relies heavily on data analytics. He is highlighted in @BU_CAS 's Alumni Features here:

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Economics majors Charles Kielt and Subin Moon presented in the poster session at the 16th Annual Economics Scholars Program Conference for Undergraduate Research, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Oct 21. More here:

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BU’s College Fed Challenge Team attended the Fed Challenge on February 9. As part of that, they met Chairman Jerome Powell. For more on the Fed Challenge, see here: To check out the UEA and learn about BU participation, see here:

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Happy #BUGivingDay -- It's a great day to support the Department of Economics! The funds enhance our ability to support student research and engage students in our Economics community. Any gift of any size is welcome! Make your gift today: #ProudtoBU

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Congrats to the joint winners of the 2023 Rosenstein-Rodan prize, awarded by the IED: - Max Garcia: Governance and Property Rights over Water - @sophieli_econ : Historical Evidence on Gender Differences in Job Loss: US Postmasters before World War Two

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Thanks to the generous support of 86 donors, we raised $13,240 for #BUGivingDay ! We also placed 4th in the Donor Challenge and 4th in the Revenue Challenge, earning us a bonus $4,000 in funds. We couldn't have done this without you! #ProudToBU

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The Distinguished Alumni award for the Economics Department goes to Jane Hyde Williams, our graduation speaker. She has a long and distinguished career as entrepreneur in financial services. You can learn more about Jane here:

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BU PhD Economics Alum and @UML_ECON Department Chair Monica Galizzi and the @UMassLowell Economics Department were awarded the 2023 AEA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diversity and Inclusion. Read more here:

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3 years

An important note from our colleagues in the BU College of Communication...

College of Communication, Boston University

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Opposing violence against Asians and Asian Americans: A statement from @mdichristina , dean, @COMatBU :

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#BUGivingDay Update: We are currently in 5th place in the Donor Challenge with 66 donors and 2nd place in the Revenue Challenge with $7,165! There's still time to donate! Head over to to make your contribution. A big thanks to our supporters!

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The Pi-day conference was both a celebration of scholarship and friendship as attendees honored Professor Pierre Perron's diamond jubilee through their research presentations, commentary, and banter.

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Rebecca Long, who graduated from @BU_CAS in 2016 with a major in Economics, climbed Mt. Everest this past May. Check out the story in Bostonia Magazine:

Alum Who Climbed Everest Says She Grappled with “Grief, Loss, Friendship”

Rebecca Long (CAS’16) describes her trip this spring during one of the deadliest climbing seasons as “life-changing”

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