Videos

James J. Heckman, the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, is known for both his theoretical work and empirical research. In this Friedman Forum, he discusses an economist’s tools and approach, and shows how they can be applied...

Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, ...

Redevelopment efforts are transforming 53rd Street in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood into a retail and entertainment destination—with the recent openings of new restaurants, shops, and the Harper Theater, and more new amenities planned for 2013.

Former Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich sits down with David Axelrod for a wide-ranging conversation about his career, his views and the future of politics in America.

UChicago Assistant Professor Daniel Fabrycky explains how his work with the Kepler space telescope is helping to find far-off planets like our own.

Lorenzo Garlappi, Associate Professor of Finance at the University of British Columbia, presents on his collaborative research on the e ffect of ambiguity on corporate financial decisions using a non-Bayesian multiprior approach. He and his colleagues ...

Anmol Bhandari, a PhD Student in Economics at New York University, presents on his study of risk sharing arrangements in settings characterized with Knightian uncertainty. In general, both the demand for insurance and risk perceptions are endogenous an...

Jianjun Miao, Associate Professor of Economics at Boston University, offers an ambiguity-based interpretation of variance premium,— the difference between risk-neutral and objective expectations of market return variance— as a compounding effect of b...

Nina Boyarchenko, an Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, presents on her research into ambiguity spillovers. This lecture is a part of the Workshop on Ambiguity and Robustness in Macroeconomics and Finance.

Philipp Illeditsch, Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and his colleagues study how information about an asset a ffects optimal portfolios and equilibrium asset prices when investors are not sure about the model that pred...