Costas Azariadis, Ph.D., joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. Azariadis earned a Ph.D. in 1975 from Carnegie Mellon University and has been affiliated with Brown University and the universities of Pennsylvania and California, Los Angeles. He was tenured in 1977 and promoted to full professor in 1983, both at 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 also 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, Ph.D., joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as professor. Since he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1987, Boldrin has been affiliated with UCLA, Northwestern University and the University of 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, Ph.D., joins the Department of Economics in Arts & Sciences as associate professor. He earned a Ph.D. from Oxford University in 2000 and has been affiliated with Universidad de San Andrés in Argentina, promoted to associate professor there in 2005. Galiani is the chairman of the Executive Committee of the Network of Inequality and Poverty, sponsored jointly by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 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.