Robert Engle discusses the statistical tools for research and analysis of risk that he has developed and published via V-LAB, an innovative public web site where daily estimates of volatilities...Read more

In this informal talk, William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and author of two widely used models of the economics of climate change, makes the case for...Read more

Stéphane Bonhomme is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, where he joined the faculty in 2013. Prior to coming to the...Read more

Azeem M. Shaikh has taught at the University of Chicago since 2007. Since receiving his PhD in 2006, Shaikh has received several recognitions for his research, including the Dennis J...Read more

Luigi Zingales, the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, gives an informal talk on the future of the euro...Read more

This year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded to Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller for their empirical analysis of asset prices. Lars Peter Hansen,...Read more

As part of his course Price Theory and Market Design, E. Glen Weyl, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College, presents a lecture on pessimistic social choice, optimistic social choice,...Read more

E. Glen Weyl, Assistant Professor in Economics and the College, presents a lecture on the effects of price competition and merger policy in the real world, as part of his...Read more

Richard Sandor, Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, presents a lecture titled "Good Derivatives," at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing on May 30, 2012. Sandor speaks...Read more

Michael is one of the three principal investigators for the National Health and Social Life Survey.He helped oversee the nation's first scientific study of sexual practices, which was conducted in...Read more

Tomas Philipson's research and teaching expertise is in the field of health economics. He has worked extensively on issues of public health and longevity, including his current study on the...Read more

Ofer Malamud primarily conducts research in the fields of labor economics and the economics of education. His work focuses on the labor market outcomes associated with general and specific education...Read more

Kerwin Charles' research focuses on a range of subjects in the broad area of empirical labor economics. His work has examined the effect of abortion legalization on outcomes for children...Read more

Heckman, a co-recipient of the the 2000 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is a prominent scholar of the impact of social programs and the methodologies used to measure their...Read more

Snidal's research focuses on international relations with an emphasis on international political economy and rational choice.He is currently researching the role of international institutions, including law and formal organizations -...Read more

Don Coursey is an experimental economist whose research seeks reliable measures of preferences and monetary values for public goods, such as environmental quality. Coursey's research has focused on comparisons of...Read more

Casey Mulligan’s work is on incentives to save and work and how the economy affects policy. He is the author of The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the...Read more

The President of the Czech Republic, a former U.S. Secretary of State, a Nobel laureate, and distinguished economists saluted the work of Gary Becker as they took part in a...Read more

Lars Peter Hansen , the David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College, and Professor in Statistics, will receive a BBVA Foundation 2010 Frontiers of Knowledge Award. The...Read more

Since 1992, the University of Chicago Law School's annual Ronald H. Coase Lecture in Law and Economics has usually given by relatively younger member of the faculty. This year's Coase...Read more