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Ufuk Akcigit

The Arnold C. Harberger Professor in Economics and the College

Office: SHFE 409

Phone: (773) 702-0433

uakcigit@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Macroeconomics, Economic Growth, Firm Dynamics, Innovation, Entrepreneurship.

Fernando Alvarez

The Charles F. Gray Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College

Office: SHFE 407

Phone: (773) 702-4412

falvare@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Dynamic general equilibrium models applied to asset pricing, search and insurance.

Stéphane Bonhomme

The Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in Economics and the College

Office: SHFE 325

Phone: (773) 834-6831

sbonhomme@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Microeconometrics and econometric theory, with a special interest in latent variable modeling and panel data; labor economics.

Benjamin Brooks

Professor in Economics and the College; Director, Graduate Studies

Office: SHFE 317

Phone: (773) 702-2644

babrooks@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Games of incomplete information, auction theory and mechanism design, and repeated games.

Christina Brown

Assistant Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2021)

Office: Office: SHFE 436

Phone: (773) 702-8003

christinabrown@uchicago.edu

Leonardo Bursztyn

The Saieh Family Professor in Economics and the College

Office: SHFE 352

Phone: (773) 795-2971

bursztyn@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Behavioral Economics, Political Economy, Development Economics.

Manasi Deshpande

Associate Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2016); Co-Director, Graduate Placement

Office: Office: SHFE 347

Phone: (773) 795-2944

mdeshpande@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Empirical public finance and labor economics, effects of social insurance and public assistance programs, and labor markets

David Galenson

Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1978)

Office: Office: SHFE 322

Phone: (773) 702-8258

galenson@uchicago.edu

Interests:

The life cycles of human creativity; art markets

Mikhail Golosov

The Homer J. Livingston Professor in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 2017)

Office: Office: SHFE 408

Phone: (773) 702-6405

golosov@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Macroeconomics; public finance; political economy

The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School; Director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC); Director of Climate and Energy Institute (CEI)

Office: SHFE 434

Phone: (773) 702-8250

mgreenst@uchicago.edu

Interests:

Environmental and energy economics; public economics; development economics; labor economics; health economics.

Lars Peter Hansen

The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business; Director of Macro Finance Research (MFR)

Office: Office: SHFE 328

Phone: (773) 702-8170

Interests:

Time series econometrics; quantitative analysis of dynamic equilibrium models; asset pricing

Arnold C. Harberger

The Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Economics and the College (at Chicago since 1953)

harberger@econ.ucla.edu

Interests:

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