Is BC a macro dept/What are BC's strengths?

[ICECOLDECON]

I posted this in my where to apply thread, but I feel it is a distinct enough question to warrant its own thread.

Is BC comparatively stronger in macro fields? If not, what are BC's strengths?

[Tex Jansen]

I would say that BC has a comparative advantage in macro. They have Peter Ireland, host JEDC, and have a good younger guy, Iacoviello. There are some other people as well but their names are slipping my mind.

[Golden Rule]

Susanto Basu -- does a lot on macro productivity analysis. Was at Michigan until 2005.
Chris Baum -- monetary, writes a lot of stata books
I worked some with Fabio Schiantarelli once, who was co-authoring with Iacoviello.

James Anderson who does international trade has some seminal papers in that field.

But overall, yeah, I guess there strength is in macro.

[FOSD]

BC has very good professors in many fields, but Macro one of the stronger ones. They also have excellent applied econometricians in both micro and macro, as well as a couple good people in game theory and mechanism design. Being a smaller department, though, their biggest strength leans towards macro with the previously mentioned professors (basu, baum, iacoviello, schiantarelli, ghironi, ireland) .