Ph.D. Candidates Seeking Employment: 2017-2018
The faculty of the Boston College Department of Economics are pleased to offer the following job candidates for your consideration. Full details on their fields of expertise, dissertation research, and doctoral committee are presented in the linked pages.
Please contact any candidate's advisor or the Placement Director, Prof. Fabio Schiantarelli, for additional information regarding any of our job candidates. You may also reference contact information for each of our faculty members.
| Name | Fields | CV | Job Market Paper | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Diebel | Empirical Industrial Organization, Health | Download | Welfare Effects of Using Hospital Rate Setting as an Alternative to Bargaining | Julie Mortimer Michael Grubb Richard Sweeney |
| Krastina Dzhambova | International Macroeconomics and Finance, Applied Macroeconomics | Download | When it rains, it pours: fiscal policy, credit constraints and business cycles in emerging and developed economies |
Peter Ireland Christopher Baum Fabio Ghironi (University of Washington) |
| Mehmet Ezer | Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Applied Econometrics, Banking | Download | Effectiveness of Macroprudential Policy on Bank Risk | Peter Ireland Christopher Baum Zhijie Xiao |
| Marco Ghiani | Applied Health Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economics of Education | Download | Is School Bullying Contagious? |
Claudia Olivetti Christopher Baum Summer Hawkins |
| Jinyong Jeong | Matching and Mechanism Design, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Transportation Economics | Download | Matching with Priorities and Property Rights: An Application to a Parking Space Assignment Problem | Tayfun Sönmez M. Utku Ünver M. Bumin Yenmez Marvin Kraus |
| Deeksha Kale | Applied Macroeconomics, Banking and Finance, Economic Growth | Download | Could Directed Lending Programs Hurt Small Businesses? Evidence from India | Fabio Schiantarelli Susanto Basu Anant Nyshadham Christopher Baum |
| John E. Lindner | Public Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics | Download |
Biased Beliefs and Job Search: Implications for Optimal Unemployment Insurance |
Christopher Baum Matthew Rutledge Richard Tresch |
| Jacob Penglase | Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics | Download | Child Fostering and Intrahousehold Inequality | Arthur Lewbel S Anukriti Donald Cox |
| Lauren Hoehn Velasco | Labor, Health, and Public | Download | The Long-term Impact of Public Health Measures Targeting Children |
Claudia Olivetti Robert Margo (Boston University) S Anukriti |
| Ekin Elcin Watson | International Macroeconomics and Finance, Monetary Economics and Applied Econometrics | Download | The Effects of Fiscal Policies on Business Cycle Synchronization in the Euro Area | Peter Ireland Fabio Ghironi (University of Washington) Georg Strasser (European Central Bank) |
| Solvejg A. Wewel | Applied Microeconomics, Econometrics, Family Economics | Download | Heterogeneity in Consumption Gains from Living Together as a Couple | Arthur Lewbel Stefan Hoderlein S Anukriti |
| Penglong Zhang | International Trade, Applied Microeconomics, Economic Geography, Household Finance | Download | Home-Biased Gravity: The Role of Migrant Tastes in International Trade | James Anderson Arthur Lewbel Zhijie Xiao Ben Li |