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Faculty 2007 - 2008
Fernando Alvarez
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1994. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1996).
Recent Research: Dynamic general equilibrium models applied to asset pricing, search and insurance.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Gary S. Becker
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1955. University Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business, and Sociology (at Chicago 1954 -1957 and since 1970). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1967; John Bates Clark Medal Winner, 1967; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1972; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1975; President, American Economic Association, 1987; Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 1992. National Medal of Science, 2000. Many honorary degrees.
Recent Research: Investment in human capital, including health; population change and economic growth; influence of social forces on the economy; the economics of the family.
Home Page | Nobel Laureate '92
Secretary: Ogrodowski, Shirley (773-702-8191) 
Peter Bondarenko
Ph.D. Princeton University, 2005. Lecturer in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2005).
Recent Research: Output volatility; monetary policy.
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Secretary: Sheinfeld, Shayna (773-834-6672)
Thomas Chaney
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.Assistant Professor in Economics and the College and Thornber Research Fellow (at Chicago since 2005).
Recent Research: International trade; role of firm heterogeneity; impact of liquidity constraints on the export behavior of firms; trade and inequality.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Robert W. Fogel
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1963. The Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and Director of the Center for Population Economics (at Chicago since 1981). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1971; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1972; Member, National Academy of Sciences 1973; Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 1993; President, American Economic Association, 1998. Indispensable Person of the Year in Health Research, Alliance for Aging Research, 2006.
Recent Research: Economics of mortality in North America; long-term changes in nutrition, labor welfare, and labor productivity; economics and biodemography of aging; the developing economies of Asian nations; advances in human physiology induced by technological advancements.
The Center for Population Economics | Nobel Laureate ' 93
Assistant: Harden, Donna (773-702-7709) 
Jeremy Fox
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2003. Assistant Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2003).
Recent Research: Industrial organization, microeconometrics and labor: estimation of matching and network games; mergers; mixtures models; multiple unit auctions of heterogeneous goods; structural demand estimation; complementarities and regulation in telecommunications markets; matching of workers and employers; production functions.
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Secretary: Reznicek, Lenka (773-702-7587) 
William Fuchs
Ph.D., Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2005. Assistant Professor in Economics and the College and Thornber Research Fellow (at Chicago since 2005).
Recent Research: Problems related to coordination, commitment and asymmetric information in macroeconomics; optimal labor contracts with private monitoring.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
David Galenson
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1979. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1978).
Recent Research: The life cycles of human creativity; art markets.
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Assistant: Edwards, Amanda (773-702-3877)
Lars Peter Hansen
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978.The Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1982). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1984; Frisch Prize Medal Co-winner, 1984; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1999; Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, 2006; President, Econometric Society, 2007. [On-Leave Fall Quarter 2007]
Recent Research: Time series econometrics; quantitative analysis of dynamic equilibrium models; asset pricing.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
James J. Heckman
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971. The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of the Economics Research Center, Department of Economics; and Director of the Center for Social Program Evaluation, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies (at Chicago since 1973). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1980; John Bates Clark Medal Winner, 1983; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1992; Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2000; Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2001; Jacob Mincer Award from the Society of Labor Economists, 2005; Ulysses Medal from the University College Dublin, 2005.
Recent Research: Economic models of life cycle skill formation; the origins of inequality; evaluation of social programs; econometric models of discrete choice and longitudinal data; labor market economics; alternative models of the distribution of income; public economics; regulation and policy reform of income inequality; hedonic models and pricing of heterogeneous goods and characteristics; heterogeneity in general equilibrium models.
Home Page | Nobel Laureate '00
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Ali Hortacsu
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2001. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2001). [On-Leave Fall Quarter 2007]
Recent Research: Industrial organization; auctions, search and matching models, vertical relations, reputation mechanisms; empirical applications in e-commerce, electricity markets, securities, auctions, mutual funds, cement and concrete.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Samuel S. Kortum
Ph.D., Yale University, 1992. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2006). Frisch Prize Medal Co-winner, 2004.
Recent Research: Quantitative models of international trade, technology diffusion, and firm dynamics.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Steven Levitt
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. The Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1997). Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002; Fellow, Econometric Society, 2004; John Bates Clark Medal Winner, 2004. Editor, Journal of Political Economy.
Recent Research: Economic models of crime and corruption, the criminal justice system, abortion legalization; school choice; how businesses make decisions.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Victor O. Lima
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001. Senior Lecturer in Economics and the College and Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics (at Chicago since 2001).
Recent Research: Monetary economics; social effects; unemployment effects of labor regulation.
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Secretary: Sheinfeld, Shayna (773-834-6672)
John List
Ph.D., University of Wyoming, 1996. Professor in Economics and the College and Co-Director of Graduate Admissions (at Chicago since 2005). Associate Editor, American Economic Review; Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Literature; Co-Editor, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Recent Research: Experimental economics; field experiments; environmental economics; theory and field studies on incentives, preferences, values, and marketplace effects on corporate and government policy decisions; multi-unit auctions.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1964. The John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College and Co-Director of Graduate Placement (at Chicago since 1974). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1975; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1980; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1981; Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 1995; President, Econometric Society, 1997; President, American Economic Association, 2002.
Recent Research: Monetary theory; growth and development.
Home Page | Vita (PDF) | Nobel Laureate '95
Secretary: Ogrodowski, Shirley (773-702-8191) 
Casey Mulligan
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1993. Professor in Economics and the College and Co-Director of Graduate Placement (at Chicago since 1993).
Recent Research: Non-pecuniary incentives to save and work; how economy affects policy.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Kevin M. Murphy
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986.The George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Graduate School of Business and the College (at Chicago since 1984). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1993; John Bates Clark Medal Winner, 1997; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998; MacArthur Fellow, 2005.
Recent Research: Empirical analysis of inequality, unemployment, and relative wages; economics of growth and development.
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Roger B. Myerson
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976. The Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2001). Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, 2007; Fellow, Econometric Society, 1983; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993. [On-Leave Spring Quarter 2008]
Recent Research: Game theory; information economics; economic models of voting and politics.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Derek A. Neal
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1992. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago 1991-1998 and since 2001).
Recent Research: Labor; black-white wage inequality.
Home Page | Chicago Workshop on Black-White Inequality
Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Emily Oster
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2006. Assistant Professor in Economics and the College and Thornber Research Fellow (at Chicago since 2007).
Recent Research: Health economics; economics of disease in developing countries; gender inequality.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Marcin Peski
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 2005. Assistant Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2005). [On-Leave 2007-08]
Recent Research: Foundations of solution concepts; statistical learning theory; evolutionary models, repeated games.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Philip J. Reny
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1988. The William C. Norby Professor in Economics and the College and Chairman of the Department of Economics (at Chicago since 1999). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1996. Charter Member, Game Theory Society, 1999.
Recent Research: Multi-Unit auction theory; equilibrium existence in discontinuous games; implementation theory.
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Assistant: Gulick, Harriet (773-702-2417) 
Allen R. Sanderson
M.A., University of Chicago, 1970. Senior Lecturer in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1984).
Recent Research: The economics of sports; education and labor markets.
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Secretary: Sheinfeld, Shayna (773-834-6672)
Susanne Schennach
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2000). [On-Leave Winter and Spring Quarters 2008]
Recent Research: Theoretical and applied econometrics; generalized empirical likelihoods; errors-in-variables.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576)
Azeem Shaikh
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2006. Assistant Professor in Economics and the College and Thornber Research Fellow (at Chicago since 2007).
Recent Research: Econometric theory; inference for partially identified models and multiple hypothesis testing.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576)
Robert Shimer
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2003). Fellow, Econometric Society, 2006. Editor, Journal of Political Economy.
Recent Research: Labor markets; search theory; mismatch between workers and jobs.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Hugo F. Sonnenschein
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1964. The Adam Smith Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Director of Graduate Studies; Co-Director of Graduate Admissions (at Chicago since 1993). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1972; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1984; President, Econometric Society, 1988-1989; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1990. President and Trustee of the University of Chicago, 1993-2000. Distinguished Fellow of the American Economics Association, 2005.
Recent Research: Theories of consumer and firm behavior; general economic equilibrium; game theory; social choice.
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Assistant: Gulick, Harriet (773-702-2417) 
Nancy Stokey
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978. The Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1990). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1987; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993; Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2004.
Recent Research: Growth theory; economic dynamics; fiscal and monetary policy.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Chad Syverson
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2001. Associate Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2001).
Recent Research: Market structure effects on productivity, prices, and firm survival; vertical integration, productivity, and market power; incumbent airlines' reactions to entry threats; competition in the mutual fund industry; incentives in residential real estate markets; economic density and efficiency.
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Secretary: Barbosa, Ada (773-702-6576) 
Balazs Szentes
Ph.D., Boston University, 2002. Assistant Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2002).
Recent Research: Non-cooperative game theory; simultaneous multi-object auctions; mechanism design.
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Secretary: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
Robert M. Townsend
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1975. The Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1985). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1985; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994; Frisch Prize Medal Winner 1998. [On-Leave Fall and Winter Quarters 2007-08]
Recent Research: Contract theory and mechanism design; risk and insurance; village economies, micro credit, micro foundations of macro economics; evaluation of financial systems in developing countries, banking.
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Secretary: Reznicek, Lenka (773-702-7587) 
Grace Tsiang
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1991. Senior Lecturer in Economics and the College and D. Gale Johnson Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics (at Chicago since 1990).
Recent Research: Labor economics; economics of developing countries; human capital and spatial wage distributions.
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Secretary: Sheinfeld, Shayna (773-834-6672)
Harald Uhlig
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1990. Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2007). Fellow, Econometric Society, 2003. Co-Editor, Econometrica.
Recent Research: Applied quantitative theory and applied dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium theory; the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics; Bayesian time series analysis and macroeconomic applications.
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Assistant: Edwards, Amanda (773-702-3877)
Emeritus Faculty
Arnold C. Harberger
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1950. The Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics (at Chicago since 1953). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1967; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1972.
Recent Research: The inflation syndrome; distributional weights, basic needs and other systematic ways of incorporating non-economic considerations into economic analysis, taxation and international capital flows; international comparisons of rates of return to capital.
Larry Sjaastad
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1961. Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1962).
Recent Research: Commercial policy and macro-economic stability; exchange rate behavior in small countries; real exchange rate analysis.
Lester G. Telser
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1956. Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1958). Fellow, Econometric Society, 1968; St. Clair Drake award for outstanding scholarship from Roosevelt University, 2005.
Recent Research: Theory of the core; Federal Reserve policy; integer programming; the Great Depression; German hyperinflation.
Contact: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250) 
George S. Tolley
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1955. Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College (at Chicago 1950-1955 and since 1966). Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003. Honorary Editor, Resource and Energy Economics. Honorary Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2006.
Recent Research: Energy, resources and environment; urban economics,; regional economics; agricultural economics; development; monetary economics; tax and tax policy; finance.
Contact: Smith, Debbie (773-702-8250)
