Congratulations to the 24 current or recent Ph.D. students from BU Economics who have accepted jobs for this September. Recent placements from the department are linked here, as well as pasted below.
http://www.bu.edu/econ/phd/outcomes/placements/
This year candidates selected 14 academic jobs, five government or central bank jobs, and five private sector jobs for their initial placement.
Everyone formally on the market this year accepted a job offer.
Thank you, BU colleagues and outside letter writers, for your help with them getting a job.
Let me also thank the five BU staff members who helped with the application process:
Gillian Gurish, Norma Hardeo, Miriam Hatoum, Deb Kasabian, Gloria Murray.
Special thanks to Gillian Gurish for her excellent web page support to the job seekers.
Randy Ellis, Economics department placement officer
2016 PhD Placements
Economics PhD Accepted Job Offers
| Amazon, Seattle, WA | Jiaxuan Li |
| Amazon, Seattle, WA | Fan Zhuo |
| Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada | Guihai Zhao |
| Central Bank of Chile, Financial Policy Division, Chile (senior economist) | J. Felipe Cordova |
| Central Bank of Chile, Chile | Patricio Toro |
| Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, NY (post doc), then Federal Reserve Bank, Board of Governors, DC | Levent Altinoglu |
| Cornerstone Research, Boston MA | Francois Guay |
| Cornerstone Research, Chicago IL | Kavan Kucko |
| Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, Raleigh NC (post doc) | Matt Johnson |
| ECARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (post doc) | Ben Solow |
| Ernst & Young, NYC | Mengmeng Li |
| Harvard Medical School, Department of Health Care Policy, Boston MA (asst. prof.) | Tim Layton |
| Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital, Disparities Research Unit, Boston MA (lecturer/research scientist) | Ye Wang |
| Harvard Medical School, Mass General Hospital, Disparities Research Unit, Boston MA (post doc) | Mirk Fillbrunn |
| Holy Cross, MA (visiting asst. prof.) | Dan Schwab |
| London School of Economics, Department of Social Policy and Imperial College, School of Public Health, Health Economics Group, London UK (joint position, post doc) | Sara Machado |
| Peking University, Marketing, Guanghua School of Management, China (asst. prof.) | Ying Lei |
| Reserve Bank of India, Center for Advanced Financial Research and Learning, Mumbai India (research director) | Apoorva Javadekar |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Economics, China (asst. prof.) | Yao Shu |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Finance, China (asst. prof.) | Ei Yang |
| Texas A&M, Department of Political Science, TX (asst. prof.) | Benjamin Ogden |
| US Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, MD | Elisabeth Perlman |
| Wellesley College, Department of Economics, MA (lecturer) | Alex Poterack |
| Xiamen University, Department of Economics and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), China (asst. prof.) | Shuheng Lin |