Steven J Davis

Steven J. Davis

Departmental website:
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/d/steven-j-davis

Steven J. Davis is known for his influential work using longitudinal data on firms and establishments to explore job creation and destruction dynamics and their relationship to economic performance. He studies business dynamics, employment, labor market institutions, economic fluctuations, public policy and other topics. He is also a co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices and the DHI Hiring Indicators, and he co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore.

His research appears in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics and other leading scholarly journals. In addition to his scholarly publications, Davis has written for the Atlantic, Bloomberg View, Financial Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other popular media and appeared on Channel News Asia, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, NBC Network News, and the U.S. Public Broadcasting System, among others.

Davis Stories

Will coronavirus-related job losses eventually return? Job Loss Unemployment Coronavirus

Will coronavirus-related job losses eventually return?

Chicago Booth scholar estimates 42% of pandemic-related layoffs could be permanent

Tariffs Prompt U.S. Manufacturers to Review Plans: Fed Survey

Tariffs Prompt U.S. Manufacturers to Review Plans: Fed Survey

<p>Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta collaborates with Prof. Steven Davis to study the effects of tariff worries</p>


In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning

In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning

<p>Prof. Steven Davis explains the recent uptick in job-hopping</p>


Looking for a job? You may have only nine days to apply Two women working on a computer

Looking for a job? You may have only nine days to apply

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Faculty members receive named, distinguished service professorships

Fewer Americans Strike Out for New Jobs, Crimping the Recovery

Fewer Americans Strike Out for New Jobs, Crimping the Recovery

Prof. Steven Davis says rise of easily searchable personal information has led to ‘fewer second chances’ for potential workers


Vitriolic Presidential Rhetoric Curbing Economic Uncertainty

Vitriolic Presidential Rhetoric Curbing Economic Uncertainty

Index co-created by Prof. Steven Davis finds public uncertainty about future economic policy has declined


Why American workers aren&#039;t changing jobs, and what it means for the economy

Why American workers aren't changing jobs, and what it means for the economy

Prof. Steven Davis cites research on stagnant labor flows


Economists say cuts could cloud US jobs data

Economists say cuts could cloud US jobs data

Prof. Steven Davis advocates against budget cuts to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, pointing to the need for expanded surveys


America’s hiring paralysis

America’s hiring paralysis

Op-ed cites research of Prof. Steven Davis, who explores the lag between hiring businesses and unemployed workers


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