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boston college morrissey college of arts and sciences graduate program economics
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boston collegemorrissey college of arts and sciences
graduate program
economics
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The Department of Economics at Boston College is an exciting community of scholars from many countries who pursue
applied and theoretical research on the pressing economic and social issues that face the world in the 21st century. The doctoral program is designed to train economists for careers in teaching and research by providing strong backgrounds in economic theory, quantitative research methods and applied fields.
Boston College provides considerable intellectual leadership to the economics profession. The economics faculty includes 37 full-time positions and continues to grow. Faculty allocate their time between research and teaching in undergraduate and doctoral programs as well as participating in the wider intellectual life of the University, the Boston area and the world.
The Boston College Economics Department is ranked between 24th and 26th among U.S. economics departments according to the Combes-Linnemer worldwide rankings, and its PhD program is ranked 32 in the U.S. News &
World Report 2013 peer assessment survey. With University approval and support, we are on a
welcome to graduate economics
growth path aimed at achieving and maintaining a top 25 ranking among U.S. economics departments. Recent hires include distinguished econometricians, economic theorists and applied economists, adding to the established strength of the department in applied economics.
The graduate program in economics is dedicated to training full-time Ph.D. students for careers in teaching and research. The program provides students with strong backgrounds in economic theory, quantitative research methods and applied fields. Requirements include course work, comprehensive examinations, a doctoral dissertation and a one-year residence requirement.
The program admits about 10 to 15 new students per year. The size of the program permits the department to offer a broad range of courses while at the same time enabling students to receive significant individual attention. In addition to core courses in economic theory and quantitative methods, the program offers courses in advanced micro and macro theory, econometric theory, applied econometrics, international trade, empirical international finance, topics in international macro, topics in international economic policy, economic development, public sector economics, monetary economics, labor economics, industrial organization and finance.
Boston College’s proximity to Cambridge and Boston make it part of the area’s lively intellectual community. The Ph.D. program draws upon the rich academic resources of the area in addition to those available within the Department of Economics and other departments and schools at Boston College.
We invite you to find out more at bc.edu/economics.
contentsProgram of Study 2
Faculty 3
Courses 11
Outcomes 12
Academic Resources 15
Student Life & Campus Resources 16
Admission & Financial Information 18
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Ph.D. ProgramThe requirements for the Ph.D. fall into four basic
categories: course work, comprehensive examinations,
the dissertation and a residence requirement.
course work
The course requirements consist of a seven-course core
curriculum and eight electives. The standard program for
meeting these requirements is:
Year 1Fall Spring
Microeconomic Theory I Microeconomic Theory II
Macroeconomic Theory I Macroeconomic Theory II
Math for economists econometric Methods
statistics
Year 2Fall Spring
4 electives 4 electives
coMprehensIve exaMs
All students are required to pass written comprehensive
examinations in microeconomic theory, macroeconomic
theory and two of the following fields:
Advanced Macro and Monetary Economics
Advanced Micro Theory
Finance
Econometrics
Economic Development
Industrial Organization
International Economics
Labor Economics
Public Sector Economics
program of study
dIsserTaTIon
The third year of study is devoted to the formulation and
development of a thesis topic. Third- and fourth-year
students are required to regularly attend and actively
participate in the department’s Thesis Workshop, which
meets weekly during the academic year. Students are
required to make presentations in the second semester
of the third year, each semester of the fourth year and the
first semester of the fifth year. Each Ph.D. student must
have a dissertation abstract and a dissertation proposal
on file with the department. Both the abstract and the
proposal must be signed by two faculty members. The
approved abstract must be on file no later than April 1 of
the third year. The approved proposal must be on file no
later than October 1 of the fourth year.
The thesis is written under the supervision of a
committee of three faculty members: a director chosen
by the student and two readers agreed upon by the
student and the director. The thesis is approved when it
is successfully defended before the committee in an oral
examination. As with any Ph.D. program, the ultimate
time to completion varies considerably. The department
expects every student to be well prepared to enter the job
market in January of the fifth year of full-time study.
Although there are exceptions, students should
anticipate spending a minimum of four years of full-
time study to complete the degree.
resIdence requIreMenT
Each Ph.D. student must spend at least one academic
year as a full-time student at Boston College.
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james andersonProfessor
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• International Economics • Economic history
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Gravity with Scale Economies” (with M. Vesselovsky and Y.V. Yotov). Journal of International Economics, forthcoming. “Terms of Trade and Global Efficiency Effects of Free Trade Agreements, 1990-2002” (with Y.V. Yotov). Journal of
International Economics, 98 (2016): 279-98. “Sufficient Statistics for Tariff Reform when Revenue Matters” (with P. neary). Journal of International Economics 99 (2016): 150-59. “Terror, Trade and Public Policy.” Research in Economics 69(2) (2015): 180-90. ”how Much Does Geography Deflect Services Trade? Canadian Answers” (with C.A. Milot and Y.V. Yotov). International Economic Review 55(3) (2014): 791-818.
s anukriti Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Economic Development• Economics of Gender
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Impact of the Two-Child Limit for Local Politicians.” Ideas for
India, March 2, 2015.
"Leveraging Political Aspirations.” Mint, March 5, 2015.
susanto basu Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• Monetary Economics• Productivity
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6 (2014): 70-101. “Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?” American
Economic Review 96 (2006): 1418-48.
christopher f. baum Professor of Economics and Social Work
Ph.D., University of Michigan
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Financial Economics • Applied Econometrics• Public health
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Impact of Tobacco Control Policies on Adolescent Smoking" (with S. S. hawkins and n. Bach). Journal of Adolescent Health, forthcoming. “R&D Expenditures and Geographical Sales Diversification” (with M. Caglayan and O. Talavera). The Manchester School, 84(2) (2016): 197-221. “Jumps and Stochastic Volatility in Crude Oil Futures Prices Using Conditional Moments of Integrated Volatility” (with P. Zerilli). Energy Economics 53 (2015): 175-181. "What do Chinese Macro Announcements Tell Us About the World Economy" (with A. Kurov and M.Wolfe). Journal of
International Money and Finance 59 (2015): 100-22. “The Impact of State Cigarette Taxes on Disparities in Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy” (with S.S. hawkins). American
Journal of Public Health 104(8) (2014): 1464-70.
ryan chahrour Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• Monetary Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Public Communication and Information Acquisition.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6(3) (2014): 73-101. “A Model-Based Evaluation of the Debate on the Size of theTax Multiplier” (with S. Schmitt-Grohe and M. Uribe).American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 4(2) (2012): 28-45. “Sales and Price Spikes in Retail Scanner Data.” Economics
Letters 110(2) (2011): 143-46.
sanjay chugh Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• Macro-Labor• Optimal Fiscal Policy
faculty profiles
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RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
Modern Macroeconomics. MIT Press, 2015. “Firm Risk and Leverage-Based Business Cycles.” Review of
Economic Dynamics 20 (2016): 111-31. “Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Customer Markets” (with D.M. Arseneau, R, Chahrour and A. Finkelstein-Shapiro). Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 47 (2015): 617-72. “Costly External Finance and Labor Market Dynamics.” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013): 2882-912. “Tax Smoothing in Frictional Labor Markets” (with D.M. Arseneau). Journal of Political Economy 120 (2012): 926-85. “Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy When Money is Essential” (with S. Boragan Aruoba). Journal of Economic Theory 145 (2010): 1618-47.
donald cox Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Economics of Intergenerational Transfers • Labor Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“The Evolution of Altruistic Preferences: Mothers versus Fathers” (with I. Alger). Review of Economics of the Household
11(3) (2013): 421-46. “Intergenerational Transfers.” In Encyclopedia of Life Course
and Human Development, eds. M.E. hughes, A. Pienta and R. Crosnoe. Macmillan Reference USA, 2009. “Extended Family and Kinship networks: Economic Insightsand Evolutionary Directions” (with M. Fafchamps). In Handbook
of Development Economics, Volume 4, eds. T.P. Schultz and J. Strauss. north holland, 2008. “Intergenerational Caregiving and Exchange: Economic andEvolutionary Approaches.” In Caring and Exchange Within and
Across Generations, eds. A. Booth, A.C. Crouter, S. Bianchi and A. Seltzer. Urban Institute Press, 2008. “Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family.” Journal
of Economic Perspectives 21 (2007): 91-108.
mehmet ekmekci Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Game Theory• Mechanism Design
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Reputation in the Long-Run with Imperfect Monitoring” (with A. Atakan). Journal of Economic Theory 157 (2015): 553-605. “Auctions, Actions and the Failure of Information Aggregation” (with A Atakan). The American Economic Review
104(7) (2014): 104-7.
“Bargaining and Reputation in Search Markets” (with A. Atakan). The Review of Economic Studies 81(1) (2014): 1-29. “A Two-Sided Reputation Result with Long-run Players” (with A. Atakan). Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013): 376-92. “Reputation in Long-Run Relationships” (with A. Atakan). The
Review of Economic Studies 79 (2) (2012): 751-80.
peter gottschalk Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Labor Economics • Applied Econometrics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages” (with A. Barattieri and S. Basu). American Journal of Macroeconomics 6(1) (2014): 70-101. “Trends in the Transitory Variance of Male Earnings: Methods and Evidence” (with R. Moffitt). Journal of Human Resources
47(1) (2012): 204-36. “Are Earnings Inequality and Mobility Over-stated? The Impact of non-Classical Measurement Error” (with M. hyunh). The Review of Economics and Statistics 92(2) (2010): 302-15. “The Rising Instability of U.S. Earnings” (with R. Moffitt). Journal of Economic Perspectives 23(4) (2009): 3-24.
pablo a. guerron Associate Professor
Ph.D., Northwestern University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• International Finance• Time Series
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Fiscal Volatility and Economics Activity” (with J. Fernandez-Villaverde, K. Kuester and J. Rubio-Ramirez). American
Economic Review, forthcoming. “nonlinear Adventures at the Zero Lower Bound” (with J. Fernandez-Villaverde, G. Gordon and J. Rubio-Ramirez). Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming. “Estimating Dynamic Equilibrium Models with Stochastic Volatility” (with J. Fernandez-Villaverde and J. Rubio-Ramirez). Journal of Econometrics 185 (2015): 216-29. “Supply-Side Policies and the Zero Lower Bound” (with J. Fernandez-Villaverde and J. Rubio-Ramirez). IMF Review 62 (2014): 248-59. “Frequentist Inference in Weakly Identified DSGE Models” (with A. Inoue and L. Kilian). Quantitative Economics 4 (2014): 197-229.
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faculty profiles
michael d. grubb Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Behavioral Industrial Organization• Industrial Organization• Applied Microeconomic Theory
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Overconfident Consumers in the Marketplace.” Journal
of Economic Perspectives 29(4) (2015): 9-36. doi: 10.1257/JEP.29.4.9. “Failing to Choose the Best Price: Theory, Evidence, and Policy.” Review of Industrial Organization 47 (3) (2015): 303-40. doi: 10.1007/s11151-015-9476-x. “Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock” (with M. Osborne). American Economic Review 105(1) (2015): 234-71. “Consumer Inattention and Bill-Shock Regulation.” Review of
Economic Studies 82(1) (2015): 219-57. “Dynamic nonlinear Pricing: Biased Expectations, Inattention, and Bill Shock.” International Journal of Industrial
Organization 30(3) (2012): 287-90.
stefan hoderlein Associate Professor
Ph.D., Bonn University and London School of Economics
RESEARCh InTEREST
• Econometrics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Testing Multivariate Economic Restrictions Using Quantiles: The Example of Slutsky negative Semidefiniteness” (with h. Dette and n. neumeyer). Journal of Econometrics 191(1) (2016): 129-44. “A Correlated Binary Random Coefficient Model” (with B. Sherman). Journal of Econometrics 188(1) (2015): 135-49. “Revealed Preferences in a heterogeneous Population” (with C.J. Stoye). The Review of Economics and Statistics 96(2) (2014): 197-213. “nonparametric Identification in nonseparable Panel Data Models with Generalized Fixed Effects” (with h. White). Journal
of Econometrics 168(2) (2012): 300–14. “how Many Consumers are Rational.” Journal of Econometrics
164(2) (2011): 294-309.
peter n. ireland Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics • Monetary Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Monetary Policy, Bond Risk Premia, and the Economy.” Journal of Monetary Economics 76 (2015): 124-40. “The Barnett Critique After Three Decades: A new Keynesian Analysis. Journal of Econometrics 183 (2014): 5-21. “The Macroeconomic Effects of Interest on Reserves.” Macroeconomic Dynamics 18 (2014): 1271-312. “Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area.” Journal of the European Economic Association 11 (2013): 1-24. “On The Welfare Cost of Inflation and the Recent Behavior of Money Demand.” American Economic Review 99 (2009): 1040-52.
shakeeb khan Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Econometrics• Applied Econometrics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Identification of Panel Data Models with Endogenous Censoring” (with M. Ponomareva and E. Tamer). Journal of
Econometrics, forthcoming. “On the Informational Content of ‘Special Regressors’ in heteroskedastic Discrete Response Models” (with S. Chen and X. Tang). Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming. “Semiparametric Estimation of Program Impacts on Dispersion of Potential Wages” (with S.h. Chen), Journal of
Applied Econometrics 29 (2014): 901-19. “Distribution Free Estimation of heteroskedastic Binary Choice Models in Stata” (with J. Blevins). Stata Journal 13 (2013): 588-602. “Local nLLS Estimation of Semiparametric Binary Choice Models” (with J. Blevins). Econometrics Journal 16 (2013): 135-60.
hideo konishi Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester
RESEARCh InTEREST
• Applied Microeconomic Theory
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“household Formation and Markets” (with h. Gersbach and h. haller). Economic Theory 59 (2015): 461-507.
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“Choosing a Licensee from heterogeneous Rivals” (with A. Creane and C.Y. Ko). Games and Economic Behavior 82 (2013): 254-68. “Entrepreneurial Land Developers: Joint Production, Local Externalities and Mixed housing Developments.” Journal of
Urban Economics 75 (2013): 68-79. “Profit-Maximizing Matchmaker” (with C.Y. Ko). Games
and Economic Behavior 75 (2012): 217-32. “Contributing or Free-Riding? Voluntary Participation in a Public Good Economy” (with T. Furusawa). Theoretical
Economics 6(2) (2011): 219-56.
marvin krausProfessor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Urban Economics• Transportation Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Road Pricing with Optimal Mass Transit.” Journal of Urban
Economics 72 (2012): 81-6. “Scale Economies Analysis for Urban highway networks.” In The Economics of Traffic Congestion, ed. E.T. Verhoef. Edward Elgar, 2010. “When Are Anonymous Congestion Charges Consistent withMarginal Cost Pricing?” and “Self-Financing of Congestible Facilities in a Growing Economy” (with R. Arnott). In The
Economics of Traffic Congestion, ed. E.T. Verhoef. Edward Elgar, 2010. “Economies of Scale in networks” Journal of Urban Economics 64 (2008): 171-77.
tzuo lawAssistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics • Computational Economics • Labor Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Identifying Equilibrium Models of Labor Market Sorting” (with M. hagedorn and L. Manovskii). NBER Working Papers 18661. national Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., 2012. “Risks, Jumps and Diversification” (with T. Bollerslev and G. Tauchen). Journal of Econometrics 144 (2008): 234-56. “Alteration of Lithium Pharmacology through Manipulation of Phosphoadenosine Phosphate Metabolism” (with B. Spiegelberg, J. dela Cruz and J. York). The Journal of Biological
Chemistry 280 (2005): 5400-05.
arthur lewbel Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Econometrics• Consumer Demand
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Estimating Consumption Economies of Scale, Adult Equivalence Scales, and household Bargaining Power” (with M. Browning and P.-A. Chiappori). Review of Economic Studies 80 (2013): 1267-1303. “Children’s Resources in Collective households: Identification, Estimation and an Application to Child Poverty in Malawi” (with G. Dunbar and K. Pendakur). American Economic Review 103 (2013): 438-71. “Why is Consumption More Log normal Than Income? Gibrat’s Law Revisited” (with E. Battistin and R. Blundell). Journal of
Political Economy 117 (2009): 1140-54. “Tricks With hicks: The EASI Demand System” (with K.Pendakur). American Economic Review 99 (2009): 827-63. “Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with Misclassification.” Econometrica 75 (2007): 537-51.
ben li Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• International Economics• Urban Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“The Economics of nationalism” (with X. Lan). American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7(2) (2015): 294-325. “Shanghai’s Trade, China’s Growth: Continuity, Recovery, and Change since the Opium War” (with W. Keller and C.h. Shiue). IMF Economic Review 61 (2013): 336-78. “Multinational Production and Choice of Technologies.” Economics Letters 108(2)(2010): 181-83. “Geographic Concentration and Vertical Disintegration: Evidence from China” (with Y. Liu). Journal of Urban Economics
65(3) (2009): 294-304.
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faculty profiles
julie holland mortimerAssociate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
RESEARCh InTEREST
• Industrial Organization
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Demand Estimation with Availability Variation” (with W. hickman). In The Handbook of Retail and Distribution Economics,
ed. E. Basker. Edward Elgar, 2016. “Demand Estimation Under Incomplete Product Availability” (with C. Conlon). American Economic Journal-Microeconomics
5(4) (2013): 1-30. “Analyzing the Welfare Impacts of Full-line Forcing Contracts” (with J. ho and K. ho). Journal of Industrial
Economics 60(3) (2012): 468-98. “The Use of Full-line Forcing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry” (with J. ho and K. ho). American Economic Review 102(2) (2012): 686-719. “Supply Responses to Digital Distribution: Recorded Musicand Live Performances” (with C. nosko and A. Sorensen). Information Economics and Policy 24(1) (2012): 3-14.
robert murphy Associate Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• International Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Rational Bias in Inflation Expectations” (with Adam Rohde). Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming. “Explaining Inflation in the Aftermath of the Great Recession.” Journal of Macroeconomics 40 (2014): 228-44. “Instructor’s Resources” to accompany Macroeconomics by n.G. Mankiw. Worth Publishers, 2016. “Instructor’s Resources” to accompany Macroeconomics
and the Financial System by n.G. Mankiw and L. Ball. Worth Publishers, 2011.
jaromir nosalAssistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• International Macroeconomics • Macroeconomics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Understanding International Prices: Customers as Capital” (with L.A. Drozd). American Economic Review 102(1) (2012): 364-95.
anant nyshadramAssistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
RESEARCh InTEREST
• Development Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Endowments at Birth and Parents’ Investments in Children” (with A. Adhvaryu). The Economic Journal, forthcoming. “Returns to Treatment in the Formal health Care Sector: Evidence from Tanzania” (with A. Adhvaryu). American
Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7(3) (2015).
claudia olivettiProfessor
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Labor Economics• Economics of the Family
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Gender Roles and Medical Progress” (with S. Albanesi). Journal of Political Economy, forthcoming. “In the name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940” (with M.D. Paserman). American Economic Review 105(8) (August 2015): 2695-724. “Gender and Dynamic Agency: Theory and Evidence on the Compensation of Female Top Executives” (with S. Albanesi and M.J. Prados). Research in Labor Economics 42 (2015): 1-60.
harold petersenAssociate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
RESEARCh InTEREST
• Capital Theory Finance and Statistics
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joseph quinn Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Microeconomics• Public Policy• Economics of Aging
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
"Evolving Patterns of Work and Retirement” (with K. Cahill and M. Giandrea). In The Handbook of Aging and the Social
Sciences, 8th edition, eds. L. George and K. Ferraro. Academic Press, 2015. “Retirement Patterns and the Macroeconomy, 1992-2010: The Prevalence and Determinants of Bridge Jobs, Phased Retirement, and Re-entry among Different Cohorts of Older Americans” (with K. Cahill and M. Giandrea). The Gerontologist (2015). “Bridge Jobs” (with K. Cahill and M. Giandrea). In The Oxford
Handbook of Retirement, ed. M. Wang. Oxford University Press, 2013. “Older Workers and Short-term Jobs: Employment Patterns and Determinants” (with K. Cahill and M. Giandrea), Monthly
Labor Review 135(5) (2012). “Reentering the Labor Force after Retirement” (with K. Cahill and M. Giandrea). Monthly Labor Review 134(6) (2011).
fabio schiantarelli Professor
Ph.D., London School of Economics
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• Applied Econometrics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes” (with F. Giavazzi and M. Serafinelli). Journal of the European Economic
Association 11(6) (2013): 1256-89. “Employment Effects of Product and Labor Market Reforms; Are There Synergies?” (with G. Fiori, G. nicoletti and S. Scarpetta). The Economic Journal 122(558) (2012): F79-F104. “Input and Output Inventories in General Equilibrium” (with M. Iacoviello and S. Schuh). International Economic Review 52(4) (2011): 1179-213. “Capital Accumulation and Growth: A new Look at the Empirical Evidence” (with S. Bond and A. Leblebicioglu). Journal
of Applied Econometrics 5(7) (2010): 1073-99. “Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence.” In The Micro-economic
Underpinning of Growth, eds. n. Loayza and L. Serven. The World Bank, 2010.
uzi segal Professor
Ph.D., Hebrew University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Decision Theory• Social Choice
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Recursive Ambiguity and Machina’s Examples” (with D. Dillenberger). International Economic Review 56 (2015): 55-61. “Transitive Regret Over Statistically Independent Lotteries” (with S. Bikhchandani). Journal of Economic Theory 152 (2014): 237-48. “Utilitarianism and Discrimination" (with A. harel). Social
Choice & Welfare 42 (2014): 367-80. “On the Likelihood of Cyclic Comparisons” (with A. Rubinstein). Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012): 2483-91. “Calibration Results for non-Expected Utility Theories” (with Z. Safra). Econometrica 76 (2008): 1143-66.
dongho songAssistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Empirical Asset Pricing• Time-Series• Bayesian Econometrics• Macroeconomics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Improving GDP Measurement: A Measurement-Error Perspective” (with S.B. Aruoba, F. Diebold, J. nalewaik and F. Schorfheide). Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming. “Real-time Forecasting with a Mixed-Frequency VAR” (with F. Schorfheide). Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, forthcoming. “Improving U.S. GDP Measurement: A Forecast Combination Perspective” (with S.B. Aruoba, F. Diebold, J. nalewaik and F. Schorfheide). In Causality, Prediction, and Specification Analysis:
Recent Advances and Future Directions–Essays in Honor of Halbert
White Jr., eds. X. Chen and n. Swanson, 1-25. Springer Verlag, 2013.
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faculty profiles
tayfun sönmez Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Microeconomic Theory• Theory and Practice of Matching • Market Design
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange” (with U. Ünver). Journal of Economic Theory 152 (2014): 105-29. “Matching with Contracts: Comment” (with O. Aygun). American Economic Review 103(5) (2013): 2050-51. “School Admissions Reform in Chicago and England: Comparing Mechanisms by Their Vulnerability to Manipulation” (with P. Pathak). American Economic Review 103(1) (2013): 80-106. “Bidding for Army Career Specialties: Improving the ROTC Branching Mechanism.” Journal of Political Economy 121(1) (2013): 186-219. “Matching with (Branch-of-Choice) Contracts at the United States Military Academy” (with T. Switzer). Econometrica 81(2) (2013): 451-88.
richard l. sweeneyAssistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Environmental Economics• Energy Policy• Industrial Organization• Applied Microeconomics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990: Reflections on 20 Years of Policy Innovation” (with G. Chan, R. Stavins and R. Stowe). National
Tax Journal 62(2) (2012). “The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-Trade Auction” (with D. Burtraw and M. Walls). National Tax Journal 62(3) (2009). “Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy” (with D. Burtraw). In Property
Rights and Land Policies, ed. G. Ingram and Y.-h. hong. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2009. “Crafting a Fair and Equitable Climate Policy: A Closer Look at the Options” (with D. Burtraw and M. Walls). Resources 170 (2008).
richard w. tresch Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
RESEARCh InTEREST
• Fiscal Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
Public Finance: A Normative Theory, 3rd edition. Academic Press, 2014. Public Sector Economics. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008.
m. utku unver Professor
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Microeconomic Theory• Mechanism and Market Design
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Altruistically Unbalanced Kidney Exchange” (with T. Sönmez). Journal of Economic Theory 152 (2014): 105-29. “Two Axiomatic Approaches to the Probabilistic Serial Mechanism” (with T. hashimoto, D. hirata, O. Kesten and M. Kurino). Theoretical Economics 9 (2014): 253-77. “Market Design for Kidney Exchange” (with T. Sönmez). In The
Handbook of Market Design, eds. Z. neeman, M. niederle, A.E. Roth and n. Vulkan. Oxford University Press, 2013. “The ‘Boston’ School-Choice Mechanism: An Axiomatic Approach” (with F. Kojima). Economic Theory 55(3) (2013): 515-44. “Dynamic Kidney Exchange.” Review of Economic Studies 77(1) (2010): 372-414.
rosen valchev Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Macroeconomics• International Finance and Economics• Financial Economics• Open Economy Macroeconomics
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mathis wagner Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Labor Economics• Public Economics
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement” (with D. Manoli and K. Mullen). Economic
Inquiry 53(4) (2015): 1702-17. “Local Labor Supply Responses to Immigration” (with X. Del Carpio, Ç. Özden and M. Testaverde). Scandinavian Journal of
Economics 117(2) (April 2015): 493-531. “Foreign Workers in Malaysia: Labor Market and Firm Level Analysis” (with X. Del Carpio, M. Marouani, B. nilsson, Ç. Özden and M. Testaverde). Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 52(1) (2015): 1-19. "So You Want To Run An Experiment, now What? Some Simple Rules of Thumb for Optimal Experimental Design” (with J. List and S. Sadoff). Experimental Economics 14 (4) (2010): 439-57.
m. bumin yenmez Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Matching Theory• Auction Theory• Market Design• Mechanism Design• Game Theory• Choice Theory
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Median Stable Matchings in Two-Sided Markets” (with P. Chen, M. Egesdal and M. Pycia). Games and Economic Behavior,
forthcoming. “Ranking by Manipulability” (with P. Chen, M. Egesdal and M. Pycia). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming. “how to Control Controlled School Choice” (with F. Echenique). American Economic Review 105(8) (2015): 2679-94. “Incentive Compatible Market Design with Applications.” International Journal of Game Theory 44( 3) (August 2015): 543-69. “School Choice with Controlled Choice Constraints: hard Bounds vs. Soft Bounds” (with L. Ehlers, I.E. hafalir and M.A. Yildirim). Journal of Economic Theory 153 (2014): 648-83.
zhijie xiao Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
RESEARCh InTERESTS
• Econometrics• Empirical Finance
RECEnT PUBLICATIOnS
“Adaptive nonparametric Regression with Conditional heteroskedasticity” (with S. Jin and L. Su). Econometric Theory, forthcoming. “A new Characterization of the normal Distribution and Test for normality” (with A.K. Bera, A.F. Galvao and L. Wang). Econometric Theory, forthcoming. “The Reluctant Analyst” (with D. Bernhardt and C. Wan). Journal of Accounting Research, forthcoming. “Right Tail Information in Financial Markets.” Econometric
Theory 30(1) (2014): 94-126. “Unit Roots: A Selective Review of the Contributions of Peter C.B. Phillips.” Econometric Theory 30(4) (2014): 775-814.
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The combined and varied interests of the faculty,
as indicated in the faculty profiles, ensure that
the department offers a wide range of graduate course
electives. While the number and content of the graduate
electives varies from year to year, the following courses
are illustrative of the range offered.
fall 2016Math for economists Ireland
Microeconomic Theory I kraus konishi
Macroeconomic Theory I schiantarelli
statistics xiao
economics practicum Tresch
advanced Microeconomic Theory sonmez
Modern decision Theory segal
Time series econometrics xiao
economic development fulford
Industrial organization I Mortimer
Monetary economics I chugh
Monetary economics II schiantarelli
labor economics I wagner
Theory of International Trade li
International finance I valchev
sprIng 2017Microeconomic Theory II segal unver
Macroeconomic Theory II Basu
econometric Methods lewbel
econometric practicum Tresch
applied econometrics Baum
Topics in econometric Theory dept.
Topics in developmental economics anukriti
Industrial organization II grubb
advanced Macro: computation, estimation and applications chahrour
economic development fulford
International finance II nosal
labor economics II olivetti
empirical Methods in Macroeconomics and finance song
financial economics song
Topics in International economic policy anderson
courses
Members of the Department of Economics hold editorial
board positions on many of the profession’s leading
journals and are fellows of the Econometric Society.
James andersonAssociate Editor, Review of International Economics
christopher f. BaumAssociate Editor, Computational Economics
Associate Editor, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics
Associate Editor, Stata Journal
Editor, Journal of Statistical Software
sanjay chugh Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
Michael grubb Associate Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics
stefan hoderleinAssociate Editor, Econometric Theory
Associate Editor, Econometrics Journal
Associate Editor, Statistics
peter IrelandEditorial Board, Economic Inquiry
Advisory Editor, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Editorial
Advisory Board, Journal of Economic Studies
Associate Editor, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking
hideo konishiAssociate Editor, Social Choice and Welfare
Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics
Associate Editor, Economics Bulletin
Associate Editor, Journal of Public Economic Theory
Marvin krausEditorial Board, Economics of Transportation
arthur lewbelCo-Editor, Econometric Theory
Fellow, Econometric Society
Julie holland MortimerEditorial Board, Journal of Economic Literature
Board of Directors, Industrial Organization Society
claudia olivettiAssociate Editor, European Economic Review
Co-Editor, LABOUR, Review of Economic and Industrial Relations
uzi segalAssociate Editor, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
Associate Editor, Theoretical Economics
Fellow, Econometric Society
Tayfun sonmezFellow, Econometric Society
utku ÜnverAssociate Editor, Theoretical Economics
Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematical Economics
Associate Editor, Review of Economic Design
Zhijie xiaoCo-Editor, China Journal
of Economic Research
Associate Editor, Econometric
Theory
Associate Editor, Economics
Letters
Associate Editor, Economics
Bulletin
Associate Editor, Journal
of Time Series Econometrics
Associate Editor, Journal
of Risk and Financial
Management
editorial positions
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courses outcomes
Recent Ph.D. Dissertations
2015 Filippo DeMarco, “Banks, sovereign debt and capital requirements”
Francis Georges, “Two essays in applied Microeconomics”
Naijing Huang, “essays in Time series analysis”
Junghyun Kwon, “essays in health and labor economics”
Marco Macchiavelli, “essays in Macroeconomics and finance”
Gohar Minasyan, “essays in International Macroeconomics”
Bertan Turhan, “essays in Market design”
Yat Fung Wong, “consumer search and Its Implications for Market competitions”
Tao Yang, “Three essays in Micro-econometrics”
2014 Orhan Aygun, “Three essays on Matching with contracts”
Rucha Bhate, “essays in Macroeconomics of emerging Markets”
Inacio Bo, “essays in Matching Theory and Mechanism design”
Tamas Briglevics, “essays on Money and credit”
Brent Bundick, “Monetary policy and the great recession”
Jinghan Cai, “essays in financial economics”
Jin-Young Choi, “Two-stage semiparametric estimators for limited dependent variables and Its applications”
Mikhail Dmitriev, “essays in lnternational Macroeconomics”
Zhaochen He, “on the existence of a Behavioral component to the Business cycle”
Jonathan Hoddenbagh, “essays in International Macroeconomics and finance”
Shoghik Hovhannisyan, “growth Implications of Immigration: evidence from u.s. Industries” and “emigration by educational attainment and growth: cross-country evidence ”
Federico Mantovanelli, “essays in development economics”
Chen-Yu Pan, “essays on public economics and political economy”
2013 Samson Alva, “essays
on Matching Theory and
networks”
Anna Blank, “Two essays on
the long-term consequences
of the eITc program”
Kyle Buika, “essays in applied
Microeconomics”
Kwok Ho Chan, “essays on
family economics”
Stacey Chan, “unintended
policy effects and Youth crime”
Xiaoping Chen, “a Team-
production approach to wages,
employment and Trade”
Tuan Dao, “Two essays on
International asset Markets
and Macroeconomic
dynamics”
Lucrezio Figurelli, “essays on
pricing and consumer demand
in the retail sector”
Devlin Hanson, “Two essays
on the Interaction Between
Marriage and policy”
Isaiah Hull, “essays
in computational
Macroeconomics and finance”
Chuanliang Jiang, “Three
essays in finance economics”
John O'Trakoun, “essays on
conflict, corruption, and
International Trade politics”
Chuanqi Zhu, “essays on
Macroeconometrics”
2012 Tatiana Farina, “essays in
consumer Behavior”
Massimo Giovannini, “essays
on credit frictions and
Incomplete Markets”
Marketa Halova, “essays on
International asset portfolios
and commodities Trade”
Taesu Kang, “essays in
Macroeconomics with frictions
and uncertainty shocks”
Chiu Yu Ko, “Theory of Menu
auction and applications”
Farooq Pasha, “essays on
Business cycles in developing
countries”
Radoslav Raykov, “essays
in applied Microeconomic
Theory”
Meghan Skira, “essays on
Informal care, labor supply
and wages”
Hongtao Zhou, “Three essays
in financial economics”
2011 Alessandro Barattieri, “essays
in International economics and
Macroeconomics”
Isabella Blengini, “essays in
International economics”
Aaron Fix, “essays in Industrial
organization”
Shannon Phillips, “essays on
hIv, Marriage and education in
sub saharan africa”
Madhavi Pundit, “essays on
Business cycle Models”
Dessislava Slavtcheva, “financial development,
exchange rate regimes, and
productivity growth”
Caglar Yurtseven, “Theoretical
and empirical essays on
strategic Behavior in various
Industries”
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outcomes
Recent Placements
acadeMIc placeMenTs
australian national university
Babson college
Bahçeşehir university, Istanbul
Bilkent university
Bocconi university
Bogazici university
Brandeis university
california state university, fullerton
calvin college
carleton university
central university of finance and economics, china
claremont Mckenna college
clark university
college of william and Mary
concordia university
davidson college
drexel university
elon university
florida state university
florida state university law school
fordham university
gettysburg college
hec Montreal Insper–centro de pesquisas koç
Insper, centro de pesquisas university
Instituto Tecnológico autónomo de México (ITaM)
Johns hopkins university’s school of advanced International studies
lewis and clark college
london school of economics
louisiana Tech university
loyola university, Maryland
Mount holyoke college
nanyang Technological university, singapore
national university of singapore
north carolina state university
northeastern university
northwestern university
oregon state university
pompeu fabra university
paul smith’s college
rice university
renmin university
Beijing sabançi university
shandong university
simmons college
stonehill college
southwestern university of finance and economics, china
suffolk university
sunY albany
sunY plattsburgh
sun Yat-sen university, china
Temple university
Tilburg university
ToBB economics and Technology university, Turkey
Trent university
university of adelaide
university of alicante
university of Bristol
ucla anderson school of Management
university college dublin
university of delaware
university of durham
university of frankfurt, germany
university of georgia
university of glasgow
university of International Business and economics, Beijing
university of lausanne
university of leicester
university of liverpool
university of new south wales
university of padova
university of quebec
university of scranton
university of sheffield
university of Tennessee
university of Texas, san antonio
university of York
washington state university
wayne state university
wellesley college
wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
wuhan university
nonacadeMIc placeMenTs
abt associates
american express
american Medical association
acumen, llc
The analysis group
Bank of canada
Bank of england
Bank of Italy
Bank of spain
Board of governors of the federal reserve system
The Brattle group
center for naval analysis center for retirement research
charles river associates
chase Manhattan
citizens Bank
congressional Budget office
consortium on financing higher education
deloitte & Touche
dIw Berlin
energy Institute, university of houston
ers group
european central Bank
european Investment Bank
federal reserve Bank of atlanta
federal reserve Bank of Boston
federal reserve Bank of kansas city
federal reserve, Board of governors
goldman sachs
harvard kennedy school of government
health economics International Monetary fund
IpMaq International
International Monetary fund
korean development Institute
kpMg peat Marwick
law and economics consulting group
liberty Mutual group
national Bank of hungary
national Institute of public finance and policy, new delhi
nera economic consulting
office of the comptroller of the currency
putnam, hayes, and Bartlett
reserve Bank of australia
student loan Marketing agency
united nations
u.s. Bureau of labor statistics
u.s. department of Treasury
u.s. government accountability office, International affairs and Trade group
u.s. social security administration
sveriges riksbank urban Institute vietnam program
workers compensation research Institute
The world Bank
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Scholarly PublicationsOur recent graduates have been
successful in terms of scholarly output.
Their papers have appeared in the
following journals:
American Economic Review
American Journal of Macroeconomics
Applied Economics Letters
Canadian Journal of Economics
Contributions to Macroeconomics
Economics Letters
Empirica
Energy Economics
Environmental Modelling and Software
Games and Economic Behavior
International Economic Review
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
Journal of Comparative Economics
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Finance
Journal of Financial Risk Management
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
Journal of Political Economy
Monthly Labor Review
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Economics and Statistics
Review of International Economics
Southern Economic Journal
The Gerontologist
The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences
The Handbook of Retail and Distribution Economics
The Manchester School
The Oxford Handbook of Retirement
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morrissey college of arts & sciences
The oldest and largest of the University’s eight schools and colleges, the Morrissey College
of Arts and Sciences offers graduate programs in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, leading to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Arts and Master of Science. In addition, numerous dual-degree options are offered in cooperation with the Carroll School of Management, the Boston College Law School, the Lynch School of Education and the Graduate School of Social Work.
With approximately 1,000 students and 400 full-time faculty, the Graduate School is small enough to know you as a person, but large enough to serve you and prepare you for a rewarding life and satisfying career.
Research FacilitiesGraduate students in the Department of Economics
are given accounts on one of the Unix servers managed
by the department, which provides support for
computationally intensive applications such as Stata,
MATLAB, Ox and RATS as well as the Fortran-90, C,
C++ and perl programming languages. The department
also participates in the University’s high Performance
Computing initiative, which provides a powerful
multiprocessor facility for computationally demanding
faculty and student research.
Graduate students in economics may utilize the
department’s Apple Macintosh OS X workstations, a
dozen of which are located in departmental facilities
dedicated to graduate student use. These Intel-based Unix
workstations run Mathematica, MATLAB, Stata, TeXShop
and Microsoft Office applications and provide access to
Internet resources. Several locations in the computing
labs and graduate lounge are equipped with Internet
connections for students’ laptops, and the entire campus
supports WiFi via the Eduroam network.
Online access to many economic and financial databases
is provided through WRDS (Wharton Research
Data Services). Boston College is a member of the
InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR), which makes a number of large
economic databases available without charge.
Boston College also participates in the JSTOR project,
providing online access to the entire run of leading
economics journals.
The department plays a prominent role in the RePEc
(Research Papers in Economics) initiative, which provides
free access to working papers, journal citations and
software and contact information. The Boston College
Working Papers in Economics are downloadable and
searchable via RePEc’s user services at repec.org.
Seminars and WorkshopsDepartment faculty organize an active seminar series in
microeconomic theory, macroeconomics and financial
economics, econometrics, applied microeconomics and
industrial organization, international trade, international
economic policy, and human and economic development,
with weekly presentations by noted economists. Students
also present their work in the department’s weekly Thesis
Workshop. The schedule is posted on the department’s
home page at bc.edu/economics.
BosTon area consorTIuM
The Boston Area Consortium allows graduate students to
cross-register for courses at Boston University, Brandeis
University and Tufts University.
BosTon college lIBrarIes
The University is home to eight libraries, containing 2.95
million volumes; more than 700 manuscript collections,
including music, photos, art and artifacts; 625,000
e-books; and more than 600 electronic databases. O’neill
Library, Boston College’s main library, offers subject-
specialist librarians to help with research, to set up alerts
to publications in areas of interest and to answer any
research- and library-related questions.
The BosTon lIBrarY consorTIuM
The Boston Library Consortium allows Boston College
students access to millions of volumes and other services at
19 area institutions in addition to the world-class resources
available through the Boston College Library System.
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student life & campus resources
Boston College is located on the edge of one of the world’s most vibrant cities. Just six miles
from downtown Boston—an exciting and dynamic place to live and learn—Boston College is an easy car or “T” ride away from a booming center for trade, finance, research and education.
home to some of new England’s most prestigious cultural landmarks, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Symphony hall and the Freedom Trail, Boston provides a rich environment for those passionate about art, music and history. For sports fans, Boston hosts a number of the country’s greatest sports teams: the Celtics, Patriots, Bruins and, of course, Fenway Park’s beloved Red Sox. Found within a short drive from Boston are some of new England’s best recreational sites, from the excellent skiing in new hampshire to the pristine beaches of Cape Cod.
Boston also offers a wide range of family friendly attractions, including the Children’s Museum, new England Aquarium, Franklin Park Zoo and the Museum of Science. There are roughly 50 universities located in the Boston area, and the large student population adds to the city’s intellectually rich and diverse community. Events, lectures and reading groups hosted by world-renowned scholars abound on area campuses, providing abundant opportunities to meet and network with other graduate students and faculty throughout the Boston area.
The UniversityBoston College is a Jesuit university with more than
14,000 students, 786 full-time faculty and more than
170,000 active alumni. Since its founding in 1863, the
University has known extraordinary growth and change.
From its beginnings as a small Jesuit college intended to
provide higher education for Boston’s largely immigrant
Catholic population, Boston College has grown into a
national institution of higher learning that is consistently
ranked among the top universities in the nation: Boston
College is ranked 30th among national universities by
U.S. News & World Report.
Today, Boston College attracts scholars from all 50 states
and over 80 countries, and confers more than 4,000
degrees annually in more than 50 fields through its eight
schools and colleges. Its faculty members are committed
to both teaching and research and have set new marks for
research grants in each of the last 10 years. The University
is committed to academic excellence. As part of its most
recent strategic plan, Boston College is in the process
of adding 100 new faculty positions, expanding faculty
and graduate research, increasing student financial aid
and widening opportunities in key undergraduate and
graduate programs.
The University is comprised of the following colleges and
schools: Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, Carroll
School of Management, Connell School of nursing,
Lynch School of Education, Woods College of Advancing
Studies, Boston College Law School, Graduate School of
Social Work and School of Theology and Ministry.
General Resources
housIng
While on-campus housing is not available for graduate
students, most choose to live in nearby apartments.
The Office of Residential Life maintains an extensive
database with available rental listings, roommates and
helpful local real estate agents. The best time to look for
fall semester housing is June through the end of August.
For spring semester housing, the best time to look is late
november through the beginning of the second semester.
Additionally, some graduate students may live on campus
as resident assistants. Interested students should contact
the Office of Residential Life.
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John courTneY MurraY, s.J., graduaTe sTudenT cenTer
One of only a handful of graduate student centers
around the country, the Murray Graduate Student Center
is dedicated to the support and enrichment of graduate
student life at Boston College. Its primary purpose is to
build a sense of community among the entire graduate
student population and cultivate a sense of belonging to
the University as a whole. Its amenities include study
rooms, a computer lab, two smart televisions, kitchen,
deck and patio space, complimentary coffee and tea, and
more. Throughout the year, the center hosts programs
organized by the Office of Graduate Student Life and
graduate student groups. The Murray Graduate Student
Center also maintains an active job board (available
electronically), listing academic and non-academic
opportunities for employment both on and off campus.
McMullen MuseuM of arT
Serving as a dynamic educational resource for the
national and international community, the McMullen
Museum of Art showcases interdisciplinary exhibitions
that ask innovative questions and break new ground in
the display and scholarship of the works on view. The
McMullen regularly offers exhibition-related programs,
including musical and theatrical performances, films,
gallery talks, symposia, lectures, readings and receptions
that draw students, faculty, alumni and friends together
for stimulating dialogue. Located on the main campus,
the McMullen Museum is free to all visitors.
connors faMIlY learnIng cenTer
Working closely with the Graduate School, the Connors
Family Learning Center sponsors seminars, workshops
and discussions for graduate teaching assistants and
teaching fellows on strategies for improving teaching
effectiveness and student learning. Each fall, the
Learning Center and the Graduate School hold a one-
and-a-half day “Fall Teaching Orientation” workshop
designed to help students prepare for teaching. The
center also hosts ongoing seminars on college teaching,
higher learning and academic life; assists graduate
students in developing teaching portfolios; and provides
class visits and teaching consultations, upon request.
Through these and other activities, the Connors Family
Learning Center plays an important role in enhancing
the quality of academic life at Boston College.
flYnn recreaTIon coMplex
The 144,000-square-foot Flynn Recreation Complex
houses a running track; tennis, basketball, volleyball,
squash and racquetball courts; an aquatics center with
pool and dive well; saunas and more. Its 10,000-square-
foot Fitness Center offers more than 100 pieces of cardio
equipment, a full complement of strength training
equipment and free weights, an air-conditioned spin
studio and three air-conditioned group fitness studios.
During the academic year, BC Rec holds more than 80
group fitness classes per week in a variety of disciplines,
including Zumba, spin, yoga, strength training, Pilates
and more.
BosTon college career cenTer
The Boston College Career Center works with graduate
students at each step of their career development.
Services include self-assessment, career counseling,
various career development workshops, resume and
cover letter critiques, and practice interviews. In addition
to extensive workshop offerings, Career Center staff
members are available throughout the year for one-on-
one advising about any aspect of the career path. The
Career Resource Library offers a wealth of resources,
including books, periodicals and online databases.
student life & campus resources
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Admission RequirementsThe application deadline for fall admission is January 2.
Please visit bc.edu/gsas for detailed information on how
to apply.
application requirements include:
Application Form: submitted online, via the gsas website.
Application Fee: $75, non-refundable.
Abstract of Courses a concise overview of background Form: and related courses completed in an intended field or proposed area of study.
Official Transcripts: demonstrating coursework completed/degree conferral from all post-secondary institutions attended.
GRE General Test: official score report required for all applicants.
Three Letters of from professors or supervisors. Recommendation: It is highly advisable that at least one letter be from an academic source.
Statement of Purpose: a brief (1-2 page) discussion of an applicant’s preparation, motivation and goals for his/her proposed course of study.
Proof of English official Toefl/IelTs score reports Proficiency accepted. (International only)
Financial Assistance
deparTMenT fundIng
The Department of Economics annually awards
approximately 30 graduate assistantships to first- and
second-year Ph.D. students, and 20 teaching positions
to third-, fourth- and fifth-year students. Graduate
assistants are exempted from tuition and receive
stipends of $20,900. Assistants are responsible for up
to 10 hours per week of research assistance or grading
for individual faculty members while carrying full
academic loads. Teaching assistants are paid $21,400
and supervise discussion sessions in introductory
undergraduate courses and undergraduate econometrics.
Teaching fellows receive $21,900 for teaching their
own sections of introductory undergraduate courses. In
addition, teaching assistants and teaching fellows are
exempted from the University’s doctoral continuation fee.
An appointment as a teaching assistant or teaching
fellow requires fluency in English. Students who enter
the program with a financial award can expect continued
assistance through five years of study, provided their work
in the program is satisfactory. Satisfactory performance
is generally defined as a B+ average in course work and
appropriate progress toward the degree.
federal fInancIal aId
Graduate students can apply for federal financial aid using
the FAFSA. The loans that may be available to graduate
students are the Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford
Loan and Perkins Loan, based on eligibility. If additional
funds are needed, student may apply for a Grad Plus
Loan. For more information, see the Graduate Financial
Aid website at bc.edu/gradaid or contact the Graduate
Financial Aid Office at 617-552-3300 or
800-294-0294.
offIce of sponsored prograMs
The Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) assists both
faculty and graduate students in finding sources of
external funding for their projects and provides advice in
the development of proposals. OSP maintains a reference
library of publications from both public and private
sectors listing funding sources for sponsored projects.
In the recent past, graduate students have received
research support from prominent agencies, corporations
and organizations such as the Fulbright Commission,
the Guggenheim Foundation, the national Science
Foundation, the American Political Science Association,
the American Chemical Society and the American
Association of University Women.
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