The following are among the new faculty members at the University. Others will be introduced periodically in this space.
Costas Azariadis joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. Azariadis earned a doctorate in 1975 from Carnegie Mellon University and has been affiliated with Brown and Penn universities and UCLA. He was tenured in 1977 (Penn) and promoted to full professor in 1983 (Penn). He served as the director of UCLA’s Program for Dynamic Economics from 1993-97 and from 2000-06. He has served as editor or co-editor for a number of top journals and has been on journal advisory boards and National Science Foundation panels. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society. His research focus is on labor contracts, macroeconomic dynamics and economic development.
Michele Boldrin joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. Since earning a doctorate from the University of Rochester in 1987, Boldrin has been affiliated with UCLA, Northwestern and Minnesota. He was tenured in 1990 (Northwestern) and promoted to full professor in 1999 (Minnesota). Boldrin has served as editor or associate editor for many top journals and is an associate editor of Econometrica. He served as vice president and president of the Italian Economic Association and is a research associate of the Center for Economic Policy Research. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society. His research focuses on economic theory, economic growth and macroeconomics.
Sebastian Galiani joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as associate professor. He earned a doctorate from Oxford University in 2000 and has been affiliated with Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina, promoted to the associate rank there in 2005. Galiani chairs the executive committee of the Network of Inequality and Poverty, sponsored jointly by LACEA, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. His main research focus is on development economics, particularly on evaluating public policies being undertaken by developing countries.
David K. Levine joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. After completing his doctorate at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology in 1981, he joined UCLA’s faculty as an assistant professor and was there later tenured and then promoted to full professor. He has served on the editorial board of many top journals and is co-editor of Econometrica. He is the president of the Society of Economic Dynamics. He has served on the National Science Foundation economics panel and on the American Economic Association’s Committee on Honors and Awards. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society. His research is on game theory, general equilibrium theory and macroeconomic theory.