Dear BEPP Community, I am thrilled to write to you again as a kick-off to our eighth annual department newsletter! The BEPP department consists of high-caliber economists working within a top business school. As such, our primary purpose is to bring the rigor and critical thinking inherent in economic modeling and econometric analysis to important… Read more »
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Faculty Spotlight: Ralph Boleslavsky Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
After earning his PhD at Duke in 2009, Ralph Boleslavsky became an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Herbert Business School in Coral Gables, Florida. In 2016, he was promoted to Associate Professor and continued at Miami Herbert until he joined the IU faculty in July 2022. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife,… Read more »
Ph.D. Placement: Yanhao Wang
Yanhao Wang grew up in Guangdong, China. He earned his bachelor’s degree in finance and Master’s degree in Economics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was also an exchange student at Queen’s University in Canada before joining BEPP in 2018 as a PhD student. As an applied microeconomist, Wang’s primary field of research has been… Read more »
Faculty Spotlight: Andrew Butters
Before beginning graduate school, Andrew Butters worked as an Associate Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “I feel fortunate to have gotten that opportunity,” says Butters, who worked on the inflation and international memos for the Federal Open Market Committee meetings. He also helped create the National Financial Conditions Index. “I got to… Read more »
Faculty Spotlight: Aaron Kolb
Aaron Kolb worked in the finance industry for a few years before going to Duke for his Ph.D. He was thrilled to join the IU BEPP faculty in the summer of 2016—his first academic job. At IU, Kolb teaches a Ph.D. class on economic modeling and an undergraduate game theory class. “My research focus is… Read more »