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James Anderson
William B. Neenan, SJ, Millennium Professor in Economics
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Oberlin College
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
International trade policy and the structure of general equilibrium; international trade agreements (NAFTA, GATT); micro theory and applications; economic history; economic development; globalization. Editorial board member of the Journal of International Economics and Review of International Economics. Author of the book The Relative Inefficiency of Quotas and of numerous articles. Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. Courses include: "International Trade" and "Political Economy of Trade and Development."
617.552.3691
james.anderson.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Anderson.php
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Donald Cox
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Boston College
M.S. and Ph.D. Brown University
Family issues; intergenerational transfer of wealth in the United States, Peru and West Africa; re-payment--later in life--of parental gifts of cash to children; motives for inheritances; altruism versus self-interest; financial care of aged parents by adult children; labor market issues; economic development; consumer theory. Author of articles including "Workers Ineligible for Retirement Benefits"; "The Decline in Personal Saving"; and "Inequality in the Lifetime Savings of Women." Courses include: "Economic Psychology."
617.552.3677
donald.cox.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Cox.php
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Peter Gottschalk
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. George Washington University
M.A. George Washington University
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
An expert in the area of poverty and income distribution; intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency; economic mobility; low-wage labor markets; relation of low- and high-wage incomes to family life and the shifts in and causes of economic inequality; social insurance and public assistance programs. Research is in the area of labor and human resource economics and includes an examination of wage trends among adult male heads of households in the 1980s; a study of women and welfare dependence during the same period; and a calculation, based on Current Population Surveys over several decades, of how many families would be rich, poor, or in between if no wives worked. Co-author of the book America Unequal; co-editor of the book Uneven Tides: Rising Inequality in America; and Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare and author of numerous journal articles. Courses focus on labor economics; applied econometrics; poverty and discrimination.
617.552.4517
peter.gottschalk.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Gottschalk.php
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Robert Murphy
Associate Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. Williams College, Ph.D. MIT
Macroeconomic policy of the US and other countries, specifically tax and spending policies; monetary and interest rate policies, budget and deficits and public debt, and social security and entitlement policies; macroeconomic conditions in the US and other countries, including economic growth, inflation, interest rates, unemployment, trade deficits and surpluses; exchange rates and general issues related to the value of the dollar. Trade policies, trade deficits, international financial markets. European integration, with pros and cons of a single currency in the European union; currency crises in emerging market economies; transition of former East Bloc countries to market economies; effects of oil and other natural resource discoveries on the macroeconomy of developing countries, specifically in managing consequences of oil discovery and exploitation in Columbia; stabilization policies in developing countries in Latin America; NAFTA, GATT and other issues related to international trade agreements and policies. Served a one-year appointment (1995-96) in the Clinton Administration as a senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisors; in that role, served as editor of the weekly economic briefing of the president of the United States. Recent articles include: "Accounting for the Recent Decline in the NAIRU"; "Macroeconomic Policy Implications of Oil in Colombia"; "Household Debt and Consumer Spending"; "Reputation and the Real Estate Brokerage Contract," and "Explaining the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Panel Data Approach." Courses include: "Macroeconomic Policymaking"; "International Finance."
617.552.3688
robert.murphy.1@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Murphy.php
http://www2.bc.edu/~murphyro (personal web page)
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Harold Petersen
Associate Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A. DePauw University, Ph.D. Brown University
Financial markets; the stock market; housing markets; regional economic growth; the Massachusetts economy; domestic economic policy; inflation and unemployment; politics and economics; capital theory and finance; econometrics. Author or co-author of several articles, in addition to the book New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange: Its Role in the Marketing of Sugar. Courses include: "Capital Theory and Finance," "Macro Principles," "Business as a Calling." Affiliations include the National Association of Forensic Economists and the Massachusetts Association of Assessing Officers.
617.552.4550
harold.petersen@bc.edu
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Joseph Quinn
James P. McIntyre Professor, Economics Department
B.A. Amherst College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Economics of aging; trends in retirement, Social Security and pensions; aging workforce; retirement of the baby boomers; how older workers are financially penalized for postponing retirement; economic status of the elderly. Former co-chair of the Technical Panel on Trends and Issues in Retirement Savings of the President's Social Security Advisory Council. Member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology and Task Force on Tax Policy and Capital Formation; member of the Board of Governors, Foundation for International Studies on Social Security. Author or co-author of numerous articles, including "The Effect of Pensions on Labor Markets and Retirement", "New Paths to Retirement", "Criteria for Social Security Reform", "The Economic Status of the Elderly", "Employment and the Elderly"; "Economic Implications of an Aging Society"; "Retirement Trends and Patterns in the 1990s: The End of an Era?"; "Social Security: What Role for the Future?" and "The Future of Retirement." Courses include: "Aging and Social Policy."
617.552.2393
joseph.quinn@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Quinn.php
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Fabio Schiantarelli
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.S. Universita Bocconi, Italy; M.S., Ph.D. London School of Economics
Macroeconomic policy; domestic monetary policy; the Italian economy; European Community; financial liberalization in less-developed countries. He has served as consultant on a number of projects to the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors/Division of International Finance. He was co-organizer of a conference on "International Perspectives on the Micro and Macro Implications of Financial Constraints" held in Italy. Co-author of numerous chapters and articles including "Monetary Instability, the Predictability of Prices and the Allocation of Investment", "Investment and Financial Constraints: A Switching Regression Approach for US Panel Data" and "Capital Market Imperfections Before and After Financial Liberalization: An Euler Equation Approach to Panel Data for Ecuadorian Firms." Courses include: "Macroeconomic Theory"; "Econometrics"; "Monetary Economics"; "Labor Economics."
617.552.4512
fabio.schiantarelli@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Schiantarelli.php
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Richard Tresch
Professor, Economics Department
College of Arts & Sciences
B.A., Williams College; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fiscal economics; public sector; government spending and tax issues–particularly the level and composition of spending and taxes rather than the macroeconomic effects of spending and tax policy; state/local spending; tax issues; welfare economics. Past recipient of the Massachusetts Professor of the Year title awarded by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education. Author of several textbooks, including Principles of Economics and Public Finance: A Normative Theory. Courses include: Principles of Economics, Public Finance, Welfare Economics
617.552.3671
richard.tresch@bc.edu
http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec/Tresch.php
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