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The Department of Economics at BU is one of the nation’s leading departments, ranking among the largest PhD and MA programs in the country and one of the largest undergraduate concentrations in the College of Arts & Sciences. Outstanding faculty research is considered a critical complement to outstanding teaching; faculty in the Economics Department, working at the frontier of current economic knowledge, engage students with critical questions and exciting new developments in the field.
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Department chair: Professor Barton Lipman
Campus address: 270 Bay State Road
Phone: 617-353-4389
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Website: www.bu.edu/econ
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The evidence of metal content for the attribution of the coins in the name of Chandra(gupta)
(2022-06-25)Two-day international conference on oriental numismatics in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Society -
Metal analysis of Gupta gold coins
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Capital destruction and economic growth: the effects of Sherman’s March, 1850–1920
(American Economic Association, 2022-10-01)Using General Sherman’s March through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina during the Civil War, we study the effect of capital destruction on medium- and long-run local economic activity, and the role of financial ... -
1918 every year: racial inequality in infectious mortality, 1906–1942
(American Economic Association, 2022-05-01)In the first half of the twentieth century, racial inequality in the rate of death from infectious disease was immense. In every year from 1906 to 1920, Black Americans in cities died from infectious diseases at a rate ... -
Measuring commuting and economic activity inside cities with cell phone records
(MIT Press - Journals, 2021)We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city. A simple workplace choice model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose destination fixed effects correspond to ... -
Understanding the regional innovation system in LMT industries: the case of Turkey as an emerging market economy
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011-01-01)This important book is about the origins and diffusion of innovation, in theory and in practice. -
An economic valuation of a biotechnology R&D project in a developing economy
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, 2012) -
Technoparks in Turkey: patent system perspective
(Ege University, 2011)