Word: christinas
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With word that University President Drew G. Faust vetoed the appointment of the distinguished Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, economics professors at Harvard and Berkeley expressed a combination of bewilderment and disappointment in interviews yesterday...
...interview yesterday, David H. Romer, a Berkeley macroeconomist who specializes in monetary policy, said that he would not be taking the tenured position that he was offered at the Kennedy School, and that he and his wife would remain at Berkeley. His wife, Christina, declined to comment for this story...
...Although Christina Romer cleared the first step to tenure—winning the approval from the economics department—her appointment was overturned by Faust, who declined to comment for this story...
...They have made their careers on the west coast, but both have had lingering ties to Cambridge. According to DeLong, MIT offered a position to Christina Romer but not her husband in the early 1990s. And under former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the couple passed both the ad hoc and approval from Mass. Hall, but ultimately chose to stay in California, Delong said...
...rest of the faculty at Berkeley are extremely delighted that Christina and David decided to stay,” said David E. Card, a prominent labor economist...