In the News 2019
See below for 2019 media coverage.
December 24, 2019 | The New York Times
Finding ways to be kinder to yourself isn't easy, but having more alone time and more time to decompress are good starts. Ed O’Brien, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, believes repeating fulfilling experiences is an underrated way to go.
December 20, 2019 | CNBC
Austan Goolsbee, professor at the University of Chicago Booth Business School and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss what the latest GDP data suggests about the economy.
December 20, 2019 | TIME
Santa Claus is coming to town, but should you tell your kids if he even exists? Emma Levine, assistant professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, tells us that it's not always wrong to tell children to tell a white (Christmas) lie.
December 19, 2019 | Yahoo! News
Ed O'Brien of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business School of Business gives his take on the "joy of giving" amid the gift-giving season.
December 09, 2019 | BBC News
Nicholas Epley, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, gives his take on the meaning behind the gifts we give.
December 08, 2019 | Voice of America
James E. Schrager, professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, helps debunk myths that online retailers are dominating more than they are.
December 06, 2019 | The New York Times
Sendhil Mullainathan and Marianne Bertrand, professors at the University of Chicago, examine the purported racial bias behind the job application process.
December 05, 2019 | Bloomberg TV
University of Chicago Booth School finance professor Luigi Zingales discusses distortions in the global economy on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
December 05, 2019 | Patient Engagement Hit
Dan Adelman, Charles I. Clough, Jr. Professor of Operations Management at Chicago Booth, weighs in on the inconsistencies in the CMS hospital star ratings system.
November 26, 2019 | NPR
Professors Brent Neiman and Joseph Vavra discuss how innovations in technology and manufacturing allowed the proliferation of niche products in our shopping carts on NPR's "The Indicator."
November 25, 2019 | Poets & Quants
天美传媒 is expanding a scholarship program that pays all or some of the tuition for nonprofit- or government-bound MBAs.
November 22, 2019 | CNBC
Elisabeth Kempf, assistant professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, joins “Squawk Box” to discuss how politics can affect market calls.
November 13, 2019 | CNBC
Former Indian central bank chief Raghuram Rajan and professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business says the biggest threat to the US economy stems not from the US Federal Reserve or any one sector of the economy, but rather from the White House.
November 11, 2019 | Crain's Chicago Business
A family foundation tied to the late Charles "Mike" Harper, former CEO of Chicago agribusiness ConAgra Brands, has donated $10 million to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for military veteran scholarships, the foundation and school said in a joint statement.
November 08, 2019 | Business Insider
Business Insider spoke with five current students and former graduates as well as deputy dean for MBA programs Stacey Kole to get some insight into how to get into the program.
November 09, 2019 | Market Watch
James E. Schrager, clinical professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, warns that using tech and being a technology company are two separate things.
November 04, 2019 | Chicago Business Journal
天美传媒 got some good news in Bloomberg Businessweek’s rankings released on Monday of the nation’s 20 top MBA programs. Booth moved up to fourth place overall from fifth last year, while Kellogg slid to 10th place from its No. 8 ranking a year ago.
November 01, 2019 | Institutional Investor
Underfunded public pensions have shifted to riskier assets in hopes of high returns, but their reach for yield in non-core real estate funds is not paying off, according to real estate professor Joseph Pagliari of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Mitchell Bollinger, an
industry advisor, investor, and analyst.
October 24, 2019 | The New York Times
The study is “Can Free Entry Be Inefficient? Fixed Commissions and Social Waste in the Real Estate Industry,” by the economists Chang-Tai Hsieh, a professor at the University of Chicago, and Enrico Moretti, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
October 24, 2019 | Los Angeles Times
Some people have reacted to discoveries of algorithmic bias by suggesting the algorithms be scrapped altogether — but the algorithms aren’t the problem, said Sendhil Mullainathan, a computational behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago and the study’s senior author.
October 15, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Smaller applicant pools also mean schools dangle higher scholarship amounts at students, said Stacey R. Kole, deputy dean for M.B.A. programs at the University of Chicago, one of the few top-rated schools where applications rose.
October 08, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Michael Weber of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, one of the authors of the Finnish study, found some bright spots that encourage him to call for more public education instead.
October 04, 2019 | CNBC
Video- Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor, Kate Moore, chief equity strategist at Blackrock, CNBC's Steve Liesman and Rick Santelli react to the September jobs number on CNBC's "Squawk Box".
October 03, 2019 | US News & World Report
University of Chicago (Booth) - U.S. News business school rank: 3 (tie).
October 03, 2019 | News India Times
The Indian-American dean of the prestigious Chicago Booth School of Business announced the launch of the Boundless Scholarship Initiative aimed at attracting the “best and brightest students” to the institution.
October 02, 2019 | Financial Times
Chicago Booth School of Business was the exception with applications up 3.4 per cent this year.
October 02, 2019 | Fortune
"Corporate boards are beginning to recognize that bad behavior is not free. In fact, it can come at a very high cost, particularly when it emanates from the C-Suite," says John Paul Rollert, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
October 02, 2019 | Huffpost
This is what Luigi Zingales, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, thought when he proposed a tax on lobbying in his 2012 book, ”A Capitalism for the People.”
October 02, 2019 | Bloomberg
The overhaul is “a very clear note that the board is paying very, very close attention and monitoring things,” said Jim Schrager, professor of entrepreneurship and strategy at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
October 01, 2019 | CNBC
Nicholas Colas, Data Treck co-founder, and Steven Kaplan, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, join "Squawk on the Street" to discuss the IPO market after a series of IPOs in 2019 have underperformed.
September 30, 2019 | CNBC
People in authority have to tolerate criticism for a failure to do so will lead to policymaking mistakes, Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has said.
September 30, 2019 | Economic Times
Suppressing dissent can lead to bad policies being passed, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan said in a LinkedIn Post on Monday.
September 30, 2019 | Pocket
Kaitlin Woolley, an assistant professor of marketing at Cornell University, and Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioral science and marketing at the University of Chicago, showed just how special food can be at brokering a social bond.
September 28, 2019 | The Economist
Most property-owners “have already priced in the fragility”, says Joseph Pagliari of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
September 26, 2019 | The New York Times
“When the I.P.O. market is hurting, it has a domino effect on valuations and venture capital deals,” said Steven N. Kaplan, a professor of finance and entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago.
September 26, 2019 | Bloomberg
“Founders who really scale businesses like WeWork have to be ambitious and a little bit crazy,” said Steve Kaplan, professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
September 26, 2019 | Futurity
“People are often motivated by retribution, even if they themselves don’t realize that,” says senior author Boaz Keysar, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago.
September 21, 2019 | The New York Times
The plan “is well targeted,” said Neale Mahoney, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, who studies medical debt.
September 20, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randall Kroszner, Chicago Booth School of Business deputy dean and former Federal Reserve governor, discusses the Fed's repurchase agreement (repo) operations and U.S. monetary policy on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
September 20, 2019 | The New York Times
“Our antitrust laws cannot do anything against these types of monopolies,” said Luigi Zingales, a finance professor at the University of Chicago, during a convocation address in June.
September 19, 2019 | Forbes
The roots of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business trace back to the late 1800s, making it the second-oldest business school in the U.S. after Wharton.
September 18, 2019 | Bloomberg
And Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor of Economics & Former Council of Economic Advisers Chair, thinks people are putting too much weight in the idea that the "Fed can save us."
September 18, 2019 | Forbes
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September 17, 2019 | Associated Press/US News/ABC
Luigi Zingales, a University of Chicago professor of finance, called the board’s creation “a clever move” that’s more about appearance than substance.
September 17, 2019 | CNBC
The University of Chicago this month released a report by a committee of tech experts and academics that outlined the contours of a new digital authority with the power to promulgate and impose industry standards and monitor misbehavior.
September 17, 2019 | MarketWatch
Op-ed by Amir Sufi et al.: Low interest rates have traditionally been viewed as positive for economic growth.
September 15, 2019 | The New York Times
At a convocation ceremony in June, Luigi Zingales, a finance professor at the university’s Booth School of Business, warned about the corrosive influence of monopolies and declared that the Chicago School had a blind spot when it came to Big Tech.
September 13, 2019 | MarketWatch/MSN
One recommendation for such improvement comes from Ray Ball, an accounting professor at the University of Chicago: Focus on just one of the two components of book value (retained earnings) and ignore the second (contributed capital — total share issuance over the years, less shares repurchased).
September 11, 2019 | The New York Times
Advances in medical technology have made it possible to prolong the lives of desperately ill patients, while changes in Medicare reimbursement rates created a financial incentive for the expansion of such facilities, said Neale Mahoney, an economist at the University of Chicago who studies the
industry’s growth.
September 11, 2019 | Medium
Ayelet Fishbach, a professor of behavioral science and marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, says there’s a powerful effect to mentally positioning yourself as an “expert” in an area you have experience with.
September 09, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randall Kroszner, Chicago Booth School of Business deputy dean and former Federal Reserve governor, discusses the China-U.S. trade war. He speaks with Bloomberg's Paul Allen and Kathleen Hays on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."
September 09, 2019 | FOX
A report last month sponsored by the Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago, researchers argued that the more people who use an online service, the more users, developers, and advertisers it attracts.
September 09, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randall Kroszner, Chicago Booth School of Business deputy dean and former Federal Reserve governor, discusses Federal Reserve monetary policy with Bloomberg's Kathleen Hays and Paul Allen on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."
September 09, 2019 | MarketWatch
The study, by the University of Chicago’s Steven Davis, was circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research and dovetails with a recent Federal Reserve publication.
September 06, 2019 | MSNBC
Stephanie Ruhle is joined by former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee, CNBC’s Ron Insana, Republican Political Consultant Shermichael Singleton, and Democratic Strategist Emily Tisch Sussman to discuss what that means for the economy going forward.
September 06, 2019 | Caixin
Op-ed by Professor Raghuram Rajan: For much of the last century, the United States managed and protected the rules-based trading system it created at the end of World War II.
September 06, 2019 | Yahoo!
Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman, Adam Shapiro and Pras Subramanian talk to State Street Global Advisers' Lori Heinel and Austan Goolsbee, Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and current Professor of Economics, Chicago Booth School of Business.
September 05, 2019 | CNBC
According to Randy Kroszner, Former Fed Governor and now Professor Of Economics at University of Chicago`s Booth School of Business, the Fed could have provided a "little bit more guidance" to boost market confidence.
September 05, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
“The prominent role of trade policy in recent U.S. stock market swings is historically unprecedented,” said Steven Davis, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, in a paper published last month.
September 04, 2019 | MSNBC
Austan Goolsbee tells Lawrence that the U.S. economy is likely to slip into a recession if Trump keeps up his trade war with China. The president just placed new tariffs on Chinese goods.
September 03, 2019 | Psychology Today
In fact, one of the problems is having plenty of time. University of Chicago economist Sendhil Mullainathan—whose work intersects with behavioral economics—in his book, Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives -describes the processes underlying the problem of having
too much time.
September 03, 2019 | Bloomberg
“Global companies should make sure that any standards they say they’re holding themselves to are observed the world over,” said John Paul Rollert, a behavioral science professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and “in-house ethicist” at the Chicago Booth Review.
August 30, 2019 | Marketplace
The panel included a variety of perspectives on the tech industry, including Elizabeth Banker from the Internet Association; Diane Katz from The Heritage Foundation; Tekedra Mawakana from Waymo; Corynne McSherry from the Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Luigi Zingales from the University of
Chicago Booth School of Business.
August 30, 2019 | Forbes
This is something of a conundrum to Ann L. McGill, the Sears Roebuck Professor of General Management, Marketing and Behavioral Science at the Chicago Booth business school.
August 29, 2019 | CNBC
A no-deal Brexit would be the "darkest of scenarios" for European growth and that will affect the U.S., says Austan Goolsbee of 天美传媒.
August 29, 2019 | Forbes
A new study from Ufuk Akcigit, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Sina T. Ates, a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board, look at how business dynamism—the process of new business formation, expansion, contraction, job creation and destruction—has been slowing.
August 28, 2019 | Forbes
After many years of tuition increases that exceeded inflation, Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business have both frozen tuition rates for 2019/20.
August 28, 2019 | Financial Times
For Luigi Zingales, the Chicago Booth professor, the BRT’s effort was “at best misleading marketing, at worst a dangerous power grab”.
August 26, 2019 | Forbes
As it turns out, Scott R. Baker of Northwestern University, Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago have developed a measure that serves as a proxy for regime uncertainty: the “Global Economic Policy Uncertainty Index.”
August 25, 2019 | Fox
Joining us now with reactions, former Obama Economic Adviser, Austan Goolsbee, and American Conservative Union Chair, Matt Schlapp.
August 25, 2019 | Associated Press/Yahoo!/Japan Times
The key for any president in a moment of economic uncertainty is to have a talented team of advisers he can listen to and trust, said Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist who was a top aide to President Barack Obama.
August 24, 2019 | Associated Press//Yahoo!/ABC
"I think it's great that there's a lot of entrepreneurial activity in this space because this market is pretty broken, but I also think some government intervention would help too," said Eric Budish, a University of Chicago economics professor.
August 24, 2019 | Independent
“The post-war world, which the US built, was essentially one where, if there was a theme, it was: ‘everyone benefits from everyone else’s growth’,” said Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who once led India’s central bank.
August 23, 2019 | The New York Times
“The postwar world, which the U.S. built, was essentially one where, if there was a theme, it was: ‘Everyone benefits from everyone else’s growth,’” said Raghuram G. Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who once led India’s central bank.
August 23, 2019 | CNN
Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama, reacts to President Trump's tweet asking if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell or Chinese President Xi Jinping is the bigger enemy to America.
August 23, 2019 | MSNBC
NBC News’ Heidi Przybyla, WBUR’s Kimberly Atkins, NYT’s Nick Confessore, former economic advisor for President Obama Austan Goolsbee, and MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on the president escalating his trade war with China and comparing his hand-picked Federal Reserve chair to the authoritarian president of
China.
August 22, 2019 | Fox
A "DCC" (Digital Communications Commission) or "Digital Authority" (DA) is the idea behind a recent report about digital platforms, sponsored by the University of Chicago's Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. Former Department of Justice senior staffer and Yale University
economics professor Fiona Scott Morton led the study.
August 22, 2019 | Bloomberg
In a symposium mainly given over to extolling the record of departing Chairman Alan Greenspan, University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan warned about excessive risk-taking by asset managers seeking to boost their compensation.
August 22, 2019 | CNBC
Randy Kroszner of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business discusses recession indicators and interest rate policy in the U.S.
August 22, 2019 | The Economist
Oliver Hart of Harvard University and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago see his argument as principally motivated by a form of the agency problem; he didn’t like managers being charitable with shareholders’ money, even if it was ostensibly in the firm’s interests. ...Raghuram Rajan, an
economist at the University of Chicago and former head of India’s central bank, advocates taking note of the non-financial investments workers and suppliers make in a company with a new measure of “firm value” which explicitly takes note of a specified set of such stakeholdings.
August 21, 2019 | The Week
Likewise, a 2017 paper by University of Chicago economist Steven Kaplan found "little long-term evidence that is consistent with the predictions of the short-term critics" of public companies.
August 22, 2019 | Newsweek
Economist Austan Goolsbee said Wednesday that the argument that Donald Trump's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans would somehow trickle down and benefit the economy as a whole has been "pretty much disproven."
August 20, 2019 | CNBC
The slowdown in India's economy is very worrisome and the government should pay attention to the arguments made by the former chief economist Arvind Subramanian about overestimating growth with the new gross domestic product (GDP) data, said Raghuram Rajan, the former Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
governor.
August 20, 2019 | Bloomberg
Today's Guests: Rett Wallace, CEO of Triton Research and Luigi Zingales, finance professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
August 20, 2019 | The Washington Post
Op-ed by Luigi Zingales - If workers’ unions were to get together and unilaterally decide what the employment contract meant and how it should be interpreted, the Business Roundtable would scream “socialism.”
August 20, 2019 | The New York Times
"We have become interconnected in a way that we are almost in a prisoner's dilemma - stuck in this equilibrium where no one can escape" from a decade of low interest rates, said Raghuram Rajan, a former Reserve Bank of India governor and current professor at the University of Chicago Booth School
of Business.
August 12, 2019 | Inc.
In a similar experiment, University of Chicago researchers Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder found that commuter train and bus passengers who talked to nearby strangers found their commute more enjoyable than those who didn't.
August 11, 2019 | Financial Times
The writer is professor of economics at Stanford University. This article was co-authored by Raghuram Rajan of Chicago’s Booth School
August 09, 2019 | Fortune
Trump is assuming, "I follow my strategy on trade so even if things turn sour, I always have the Fed to reduce interest rates and bail me out," said Raghuram Rajan, professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and chief
economist and director of research at the International Monetary Fund.
August 07, 2019 | Newsweek
A new study from researchers at Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve has further discredited a key talking point from President Donald Trump in relation to the escalating trade war with China: the East Asia country does not pay the cost of U.S. tariffs, U.S.
consumers and importers do.
August 05, 2019 | Market Watch
Fortunately, in recent years we’ve had an objective measurement of economic uncertainty, courtesy of research conducted by Scott Baker of Northwestern University, Nick Bloom of Stanford University, and Steven Davis of the University of Chicago.
August 05, 2019 | The Atlantic
In a University of Chicago poll of several dozen international economists, zero disagreed with the statement that “the incidence of the latest round of US import tariffs is likely to fall primarily on American households.”
August 05, 2019 | NPR
"It leads you to take certain behaviors that in the short term help you to manage scarcity, but in the long term only make matters worse," says Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
August 05, 2019 | Psychology Today
Sendhil Mullainathan of the University of Chicago and Eldar Shafir of Princeton have extensively studied the cognitive impact of scarcity.
August 02, 2019 | CNBC
The creators of the EPU Index, Baker of Northwestern University, Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and the University of Chicago’s Steven Davis have also found that an economic policy uncertainty shock of 90 points reduces gross fixed investment in the U.S. by 6% within two quarters and lowers
GDP by just over 1%.
August 02, 2019 | NBC
Giving feedback is how you help those around you get better at what they do and do their best, explains Ayelet Fishbach, PhD, the Jeffrey Breakenridge Keller Professor of Behavioral Science and Marketing at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
August 02, 2019 | Financial Times
The Anthologist doesn’t serve cashew nuts, so I order a bowl of smoked almonds instead.
August 01, 2019 | Bloomberg
I asked Davis, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, if this disparity was because the financial crisis emanated from the U.S., while the current sources of uncertainty were more widespread, and he replied via email with a “yes” and a list of seven culprits.
August 01, 2019 | The New York Times
Economists at Northwestern, Copenhagen University and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business have shown the same thing about mortgages.
July 22, 2019 | BBC
The former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, has said trade friction between the US and China and the prospects of Brexit have helped damage business confidence.
July 16, 2019 | Fortune
For an economist, Luigi Zingales has an unconventional approach when it comes to regulating technology giants and their ever-increasing power.
July 17, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Alternative data such as tax collections suggest growth was 1.8 points slower than reported from 2010 to 2016, Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of Chicago and three co-authors conclude.
July 16, 2019 | Fortune
Others, including Luigi Zingales of University of Chicago Business School, argued regulation can work, providing it's well-targeted.
July 16, 2019 | Bloomberg | Washington Post | SF Gate
A report by the University of Chicago’s Stigler Center this year found that digital markets tend to be winner-take-all in which one firm comes to dominate.
July 13, 2019 | Bloomberg | Yahoo! | Livemint
India’s plan to issue foreign currency debt has no real benefit and is fraught with risks, according to former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan.
July 13, 2019 | Fortune
Op-ed by John Paul Rollert: But whatever one thinks of the tactical wisdom of the protestors, events like the Wayfair walkout tell us a lot about how capitalism is becoming an accomplice for social change.
July 08, 2019 | MarketWatch
Last April, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, suggested that workers should be allowed to trade a portion of their tax-deferred savings for an annuity from Social Security.
July 05, 2019 | CNBC
Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama, Michael Strain, resident scholar and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Joe LaVorgna, chief economist at Natixis, and Darrell Cronk, chief investment officer at Wells
Fargo's Wealth and Investment Management, join "Squawk Box" with their initial reaction to the June jobs report.
July 03, 2019 | Chicago Tribune
Christopher J. Bryan, an assistant professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago — who recently co-authored a study to help kids avoid fast food — sees these changes as half-measures.
July 03, 2019 | Quartz
Reintroducing the gold standard would “be a disaster for any large advanced economy,” says the University of Chicago’s Anil Kashyap, who connects enthusiasm for it with “macroeconomic illiteracy.” His colleague, Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, struggles with its very underlying principle: “Why tie
to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?”
July 03, 2019 | Medical Daily | MSN
Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Ron Burt also established that having strong social networks positively impacts a person’s success during adulthood.
July 01, 2019 | Economic Times
Op ed by Raghuram Rajan: Rajan points out Reddy's worries about central overreach as if the Centre were marking students.
June 28, 2019 | MarketWatch
Research by Adam Looney, a former deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis at the Treasury Department, and Constantine Yannelis, a finance professor at the University of Chicago鈥檚 Booth School of Business, found that borrowers in the highest-income quintile hold a larger share of student debt
than those in the bottom-income quintile.
June 28, 2019 | Bloomberg
Raghuram Rajan, a former Indian central bank governor who is in the running to replace Bank of England chief Mark Carney, thinks the answers will be clearer if they are studied through a new lens.
June 27, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randall Kroszner, University of Chicago Booth School professor and former Federal Reserve Board member, discusses the potential of Facebook's Libra as a viable currency.
June 27, 2019 | Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve is 鈥減uzzled鈥 by U.S. inflation and wants to avoid ending up like Japan, according to Randall Kroszner, professor of economics at Chicago Booth School of Business and a former Fed governor.
June 26, 2019 | Bloomberg
Guests include: Former Federal Prosecutor, Elie Honig. Health and Human Services Secretary, Alex Azar. Kito De Boer, Former Diplomat on Palestinian Territories. Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama and current economics professor at
the Chicago Booth School of Business.
June 26, 2019 | Bloomberg
Guests: University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato, Sen. John Kennedy, Former Obama Economic Adviser Austan Goolsbee
June 26, 2019 | BBC
But according to recent research by US academics Brian C Gunia and Emma E Levine, there鈥檚 an exception for jobs that are perceived as being high in selling orientation rather than customer orientation.
June 25, 2019 | The Washington Post
A recent poll of about 40 top economists by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that 73 percent believed a wealth tax 鈥榳ould be much more difficult to enforce than existing federal taxes鈥 because of tax evasion.鈥
June 25, 2019 | BBC
Government services aside, priority queues often make a lot of sense, says Ayelet Fishbach, an expert in behavioural science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
June 20, 2019 | Inc.
The study, "Deception as Competence: The Effect of Occupational Stereotypes on the Perception and Proliferation of Deception," was headed up by Emma Levine out of Chicago Booth and Brian Gunia from Johns Hopkins.
June 19, 2019 | The New York Times
Several measures of policy uncertainty, compiled by economists Scott R. Baker of Northwestern University, Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago, have spiked with the increased tensions.
June 18, 2019 | CIO
"We found that people don't always disapprove of liars," said Chicago Booth Professor of Behavioural Science and lead author Emma Levine.
June 18, 2019 | MarketWatch
As Philip Fernbach, the co-director of the Leeds School of Business Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making, and Abagail Sussman, an associate professor at the Chicago Booth School of Business have argued, when people face a major decision, such as where to go to college and how
much to pay, they do not turn to the kind of mathematical formulas and abstract ideas they might learn in the financial literacy classes Mnuchin valorizes.
June 18, 2019 | CNN
Op-ed by Raghuram Rajan: As technological change has allowed societies around the world to prosper, others are being left behind.
June 18, 2019 | Reuters | The New York Times | Yahoo!
Banks have focused mainly on stopping service outages, but the falsification of transaction records and other data was an even bigger danger, Anil Kashyap told lawmakers on Tuesday.
June 17, 2019 | Fortune
Some examples are Antonio Gracias, founder of Valor Equity Partners, which was the first institutional investor in Tesla, according to a case study prepared by University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor Steven Kaplan.
June 17, 2019 | Indianapolis Star
鈥淢edical debt has fairly low recovery rates and the amount of money that collectors are willing to sell this debt for is pennies on the dollar,鈥 said Neale Mahoney, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago.
June 17, 2019 | The New York TImes
鈥淭here鈥檚 a concerted effort to equate Warren with Bernie, to make her seem more radical,鈥 says Luigi Zingales, a University of Chicago economist and co-host of the podcast Capitalisn鈥檛.
June 14, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
How do you feel about this?鈥 said Ed O鈥橞rien, one of the study鈥檚 lead authors and a professor at the University of Chicago.
June 14, 2019 | Independent | MSN | Yahoo!
In the study, led by Nicholas Epley at the University of Chicago, participants were told to either talk to no one, carry on as usual or make conversation with whoever sat next to them.
June 14, 2019 | Bustle
The BBC recently published a piece of research by behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder.
June 13, 2019 | Global News Radio Network
Charles Adler interviews Professor Nicholas Epley about his research into the surprising benefits of talking to strangers.
June 08, 2019 | Strait Times
This is because some of these problems are of broader concerns among the Americans, said Professor Steven Davis of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
June 07, 2019 | Financial Times
Harry Davis, professor of creative management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has long been an advocate of experimentation and collaboration with artists.
June 07, 2019 | Bloomberg
Austan Goolsbee, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School and former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the U.S. jobs report with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Balance of Power."
June 04, 2019 | CNBC
Austan Goolsbee of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Arthur Laffer, a former advisor to Presidents Reagan and Trump, join "Squawk Box" to discuss how those tariffs might affect the U.S. and world economies.
June 04, 2019 | The Guardian
Another study, by the University of Chicago last year, concluded that 91% of the nutrition gap between low-income households and affluent ones was driven by preference.
June 03, 2019 | Forbes
Raghuram Rajan has been tipped as a future Governor of the Bank of England but for now the economist is focused on bigger challenges - reshaping the relationship between capitalism, democracy and communities.
June 02, 2019 | The Federalist
According to an article by Chicago Booth Review, wealth is difficult to value, and therefore difficult to tax.
June 02, 2019 | Forbes
Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris has donated $6 million to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business to launch the first custom-designed Executive Education program in El Gouna, a modern resort town on Egypt鈥檚 Red Sea.
May 31, 2019 | New York Times
Austan Goolsbee provides his take on Uber and Lyft, two leading ride-share companies.
May 26, 2019 | Forbes
Gabor says she felt validated recently when University of Chicago professor Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics for his work on behavioral economics.
May 23, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint |Yahoo!
As Jon Kleinberg from Cornell University and Sendhil Mullainathan from the University of Chicago showed in a just-published paper, the simpler the prediction rules built into an algorithm, the less fair its decisions.
May 22, 2019 | The Washington Post | Houston Chronicle
A recent poll of about 40 top economists by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that 73 percent believed a wealth tax“would be much more difficult to enforce than existing federal taxes” because of tax evasion.
May 22, 2019 | The Fiscal Times | Yahoo!
Olorunnipa notes that a recent poll of about 40 economists by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that 73% agreed or strongly agreed that Warren’s proposed wealth tax “would be much more difficult to enforce than existing federal taxes because of difficulties of valuation and
the ways by which the wealthy can under-report their true wealth.”
May 22, 2019 | Chicago Tribune
“There’s no question that role modeling and visibility of role models has an impact,” said Waverly Deutsch, professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
May 2019 | Finanz und Wirtschaft
The pressure on governments to keep capitalism competitive and prevent monopolies often comes from simple people who democratically organize themselves. A comment by Raghuram G. Rajan.
May 21, 2019 | FOX
Former Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee gives his take on the U.S.-China tariff battle.
May 20, 2019 | Fortune
So it’s sobering to see that its market value, calculated in constant dollars, peaked on May 4, 1965, according to data from the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
May 17, 2019 | The Christian Science Monitor
“Rice has cultural cache,” says University of Chicago professor Thomas Talhelm, who’s spent a decade studying the connection between rice agriculture and cultural behavior in Asia.
May 16, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Lubos Pastor, professor of finance at the University of Chicago, evaluated the returns of 10 portfolios of stocks sorted on ratios of book equity to market equity.
May 16, 2019 | U.S. News
Smart beta, also called factor investing, is rooted in academic research from Eugene Fama, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and Ken French, a finance professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
May 15, 2019 | BBC
Among them were South-African born political economist Ann Pettifor and the IMF's chief economist at the time, Raghu Rajan.
May 13, 2019 | Fortune
“Yesterday’s News: A Temporal Discontinuity in the Sting of Inferiority” has shed some light on how we experience these emotions as well as get over them. Researchers from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business showed that people tend to become less jealous of others over time.
May 09, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint | Yahoo!
Pacific Investment Management Co. added Nobel laureate Richard Thaler as a senior adviser on retirement and behavioral economics.
May 07, 2019 | Irish Examiner
Op ed by Raghuram Rajan: Throughout the country’s history, it has been capitalism’s critics who ensured its proper functioning, by fighting against the concentration of economic power and the political influence it confers.
May 06, 2019 | Inc.
It can be difficult to curb unhealthy food, but a new study from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business gives us insight on how we can battle our own junk food addictions.
May 06, 2019 | The New York Times | MSN
Settings like a bar or a company party encourage mingling with people who may be on the outskirts of our social circles, said Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
May 03, 2019 | Bloomberg
Austan Goolsbee, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, discusses the U.S. jobs report with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Balance of Power."
May 02, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Chad Syverson, a University of Chicago economist who studies productivity, said it isn’t likely that tax cuts, or any single event, would spark a productivity breakout.
April 29, 2019 | redbook | Yahoo!
A 2018 Chicago Booth study found that giving people in low-income households the same products and prices as people in high-income households reduced nutritional inequality by only 9%.
April 28, 2019 | Boomberg | Business Live
A recent paper by Chad Syverson of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business argues that it’s still possible that the rise in mark-ups is an illusion — the result of mis-measurement by economists.
April 27, 2019 | FOX
University of Chicago professor Richard Thaler recently suggested an idea that would allow ordinary retirement savers to use a portion of their contributions to 401(k)s or similar plans to generate a larger stream of monthly payments after the end of their careers.
April 27, 2019 | FOX
Capitalism is in trouble and not just from the threat of socialism that’s gaining traction in American political circles, according to University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan.
April 27, 2019 | The Economist
That is the central finding of “Selling Fast and Buying Slow”, published late last year by a trio of academics—Klakow Akepanidtaworn of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Alex Imas of Carnegie Mellon University and Lawrence Schmidt of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology—together with Rick Di Mascio of Inalytics, a data firm.
April 26, 2019 | The New York Times
In 1980, only half of women working in the 10 highest-paying occupations were married, and only a third had a child, found research by Marianne Bertrand, an economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
April 26, 2019 | CNBC | Yahoo!
Former Council of Economic Advisers chair and University of Chicago professor Austan Goolsbee dissects the latest GDP numbers on CNBC's "Closing Bell."
April 26, 2019 | CBS | MSN
One of those researchers, John Barrios, an accounting professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, said it's not clear that working as a driver for either company full-time is sustainable, given Lyft and Uber are competing on price.
April 26, 2019 | Bloomberg | Yahoo!
Steven Davis, who studies the economics of uncertainty at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and works with the Atlanta Fed on its survey, says those aren’t big numbers in the $21 trillion U.S. economy.
April 24, 2019 | MSNBC
Former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee and MSNBC Legal Analyst Maya Wiley join Stephanie Ruhle and Ali Velshi to discuss why this decision matters in all realms of American life – from civil rights to your bank accounts.
April 23, 2019 | CNBC
Nobel laureate Richard Thaler has put forward a new idea to allow individuals to use their 401(k) savings to increase their Social Security benefits.
April 23, 2019 | The Daily Mirror
Christopher Bryan, an author of the study, said: "Food marketing is deliberately designed to create positive emotional associations with junk food, to connect it with feelings of happiness and fun.
April 23, 2019 | The New York Times
And that same approach has worked against politicians similar to Trump in other countries, as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago has pointed out.
April 22, 2019 | Press Association UK | Yahoo! | ITV
Christopher Bryan, from the university, said: “Food marketing is deliberately designed to create positive emotional associations with junk food, to connect it with feelings of happiness and fun.
April 22, 2019 | Illinois Public Media
Well except for those little white lies. Those are pretty harmless, right? Well, Emma Levine isn’t so sure.
April 22, 2019 | i News
The study, from researchers at Chicago Booth University and published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, saw students given an “expose-style article” suggesting fast-food companies were trying to “hook consumers on addictive junk food for financial gain”.
April 21, 2019 | Associated Press | Yahoo!
Overall, University of Chicago economist Steve Kaplan rejects the widely held view that most mergers fail.
April 19, 2019 | Barron's
Nobel laureate Richard Thaler says drawing down retirement assets is even harder than saving them, partly because of uncertainty about a retiree’s lifespan.
April 19, 2019 | The Washington Post
In a recent poll of about 50 elite economists by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, not a single one agreed with a central MMT claim: “Countries that borrow in their own currency can finance as much real government spending as they want by creating money.”
April 18, 2019 | The Atlantic
Repeating something, it turns out, “may turn out to be less dull than people think,” writes Ed O’Brien, the author of the study and a behavioral-science professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
April 18, 2019 | Bloomberg
“In a business where people are tough negotiators, they have a reputation for being the toughest,’’ said Steven Kaplan, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
April 17, 2019 | PTI | Indian Express | Economic Times
Delivering the keynote address at the 2019 ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development at the UN Headquarters on Monday, Raghuram Rajan said the open liberal democratic market system that brought the world enormous prosperity in the six decades or so after the Second World War is now under attack.
April 13, 2019 | The Washington Post
New research from Ed O’Brien at the University of Chicago suggests that adults could stand to learn from the toddlers in their lives.
April 10, 2019 | The New York Times
Considering the amount of money the team has committed to Davis, his situation might be less suited for a manager like Hyde than it is for someone like Richard Thaler, the Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
April 09, 2019 | The Washington Post
More than a decade ago, University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard University law professor Cass Sunstein helped shed light on the psychological aspects of decision-making with their 2008 book “Nudge.”
April 08, 2019 | Bloomberg
Former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan, India’s former central bank governor, warned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to influence the Federal Reserve could have “devastating” effects for the economy and monetary policy.
April 08, 2019 | NBC
Ioana Marinescu, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, and Damon Jones, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, studied the effects of the fund on the Alaskan labor market by comparing trends in the state with similar states like
Wyoming and Utah.
April 05, 2019 | Bloomberg
University of Chicago Booth School Finance Professor Luigi Zingales discusses the prospects for a possible rival bid by UniCredit SpA for Commerzbank AG in case talks to merge the German lender with Deutsche Bank AG collapse.
April 05, 2019 | The New York Times
And in academia, when the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business asked top scholars about a couple of its claims, they split between the 28 percent who disagreed and the 72 percent who strongly disagreed.
April 05, 2019 | Los Angeles Times
“Love of the [gold standard] implies macroeconomic illiteracy,” Chicago economist Anil Kashyap added in a side comment.
April 05, 2019 | Bloomberg
“If we don’t return to a serious path of growth, we’re not going to get our way out of debt,” Luigi Zingales, finance professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, said in an interview at the event at Lake Como.
April 05, 2019 | CNBC | Yahoo!
Austan Goolsbee, former Council of Economic Advisors Chairman and University of Chicago Booth Business School professor, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio's comments on capitalism.
April 05, 2019 | Bloomberg
University of Chicago Booth School Finance Professor Luigi Zingales discusses the prospects for a possible rival bid by UniCredit SpA for Commerzbank AG in case talks to merge the German lender with Deutsche Bank AG collapse.
April 05, 2019 | Bloomberg
In 2012, a survey of leading economists by the University of Chicago Booth School of Management found that 34 percent disagreed with a gold standard and 66 percent disagreed strongly.
April 03, 2019 | Marie Claire | MSN
According to the recent study “Undervaluing Gratitude,” by researchers at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, we systematically underestimate the positive impact of expressing gratitude and overestimate how awkward an expression of gratitude might make someone else feel.
March 31, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
In a survey by the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business of 38 mainstream academic economists, 88% disagreed or strongly disagreed that countries that borrow in their own currency don’t need to worry about deficits.
March 30, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
“Tech businesses generally have big fixed costs, and the more revenue you can stretch across those costs, the more drops to your bottom line,” says Steven Kaplan, a professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
March 28, 2019 | Forbes
One of those researchers is Samuel Hartzmark, an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
March 25, 2019 | MarketWatch
Richard Thaler, a professor of behavioral science and economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, won the Nobel Prize in economics last year for his research on automatic enrollment, and his fellow researcher Shlomo Benartzi said the concept has helped employees save almost
$30 billion in the last decade.
March 22, 2019 | Fast Company
A recent study by researchers at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Chicago looked at 4,591 CEOs.
March 22, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
“Now, when everyone else is doing it and with [the prices of buyout deals] higher, expected returns look just okay,” says Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
March 22, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Chicago Booth's IGM forum polled economists about Modern Monetary Theory—the idea that a country that is able to borrow in its own currency need not worry about government deficits and debt.
March 20, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randy Kroszner, deputy dean for executive programs at Chicago Booth School and former governor of the Federal Reserve, discusses the U.S.-China trade negotiations, how they’re impacting the economies, his views on Fed policy, how it may impact markets and how the Fed will move next.
March 20, 2019 | Bloomberg
The country’s preferential network goes beyond alma mater, suggests economist Seth Zimmerman at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, to favor men who went to pricey private schools.
March 19, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint
Usually, theory would suggest that a low-rate environment should be good for firms overall -- making it cheaper for them to borrow and grow -- but that doesn’t account for market structure and competition, according to a recent and related working paper by Princeton University’s Ernest Liu and
Atif Mian as well as the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ Amir Sufi.
March 19, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint
Led by the University of Chicago’s Eugene Fama, known as the “the father of efficient markets,” academics assembled overwhelming evidence in support of the efficient market hypothesis, or EMH.
March 19, 2019 | South China Morning Post
More carrot and less stick would help China achieve better results from government policies and services to improve the lives of its citizens, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Richard Thaler.
March 18, 2019 | The Washington Post
“I don’t want to see numbers this high,” said Marianne Bertrand, an economics professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and chair of AEA’s Committee on Equity, Diversity and Professional Conduct.
March 18, 2019 | The New York Times
But Marianne Bertrand, a University of Chicago economist who oversaw the survey as the head of a special committee on the professional climate in economics, called the results distressing.
March 18, 2019 | Bloomberg | MSN
University of Chicago Booth School Finance Professor Luigi Zingales discusses the factors that he believes will keep the Federal Reserve on hold at its upcoming meeting.
March 17, 2019 | Financial Times
“If you make something free, you massively boost demand without improving supply,” says Austan Goolsbee, a professor of economics at University of Chicago.
March 16, 2019 | Fortune | Yahoo!
An analysis by Chang-Tai Hsieh of the University of Chicago and three co-authors from the Chinese University of Hong Kong made headlines earlier this month with its finding that China’s industrial output has been consistently exaggerated.
March 15, 2019 | New York Times
Austan Goolsbee shares his perspective on the president's budget and its potential consequences.
March 14, 2019 | The Economist
As Kaitlin Woolley of Cornell University and Ayelet Fishbach of the University of Chicago report in Psychological Science, a meal taken “family-style” from a central platter can greatly improve the outcome of subsequent negotiations.
March 14, 2019 | Business Insider
"Elizabeth Warren’s proposal is very radical because it’s front-running the intellectual debate rather than codifying what the intellectual debate has produced," said Luigi Zingales, director of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago.
March 14, 2019 | Business Insider
In the latest survey of 42 of America's top economists by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, not a single respondent agreed with the basic aspects of MMT.
March 13, 2019 | U.S. News | World Report
The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business share the distinction of being top MBA programs where recent grads are paid high salary and bonus packages and have high job placement rates.
March 13, 2019 | Bloomberg | Japan Times
“When Japan first confronted the problem of very low inflation, monetary economists pooh-poohed the problem, saying there was an easy fix,” said Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and now a professor at the University of Chicago.
March 13, 2019 | Bloomberg
Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discusses the U.S. college admissions scandal.
March 12, 2019 | Reuters
Rising political pressures on central banks around the world undermines effective monetary management by risking kneejerk policies rather than pre-emptive decision making, former Reserve Bank of India chief Raghuram Rajan said on Tuesday.
March 12, 2019 | BBC
Former Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan has warned capitalism is "under serious threat" as it has stopped providing for the masses.
March 12, 2019 | U.S. News
Harvard University – the previous No. 1 full-time MBA program for three years running – ties at No. 3 along with University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
March 09, 2019 | Business Insider
"If we had 3 months in a row like this, everyone would conclude it just meant that people are terrible at predicting the start of a recession," Austan Goolsbee, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration, said in an email.
March 08, 2019 | Bloomberg | Yahoo! | Investing
The Beijing-based National Bureau of Statistics, knowing such manipulation well, has been adjusting the local numbers but hasn’t done so sufficiently since 2008, authors Wei Chen, Xilu Chen, Chang-Tai Hsieh and Zheng Song wrote.
March 07, 2019 | NPR
But Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, says it's also made inequality much worse in the U.S.
March 07, 2019 | South China Morning Post
The paper’s four authors – Chen Wei, Chen Xilu and Michael Song from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Chang-Tai Hsieh from the University of Chicago – used a mix of economic indicators that are less likely to have been manipulated by authorities to prove that the National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) have not done enough to correct the errors in the data collected from provincial governments over the past decade.
March 06, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
In his insightful and impressive book “The Third Pillar,” the University of Chicago economist Raghuram Rajan calls for “bringing back the largely self-governing community as the locus of self-determination, identity and cohesiveness.”
March 06, 2019 | The Economist
Kerwin Kofi Charles, Erik Hurst and Mariel Schwartz, of the University of Chicago, found that local declines in manufacturing employment in the 1980s were not associated with increases in local unemployment rates.
March 06, 2019 | C-SPAN
Former IMF chief economist Raghuram Rajan talked about the negative impact of economic globalization on our communities and what should be done reverse the trend.
March 06, 2019 | Financial Times
Amazon’s controversies would sound familiar enough to Raghuram Rajan.
March 05, 2019 | The New York Times/The Indian Express
Mr. Mian, along with his Princeton colleague Ernest Liu and research partner, Amir Sufi at the University of Chicago, tried to figure out if the relationship between low interest rates and business investment might be murkier than textbooks suggested.
March 05, 2019 | Financial Review
As Nobel Laureate and Harvard professor Oliver Hart and the University of Chicago's Luigi Zingales have argued, plenty of shareholders have ethical and social concerns.
March 04, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Nicholas Epley, a behavioral science professor at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, says people tend to think of their money in different categories—such as tax refunds and paychecks—even if a gain in one balances a loss in the other.
March 04, 2019 | The New York Times
A survey from economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the University of Chicago and Stanford University in January concluded that tariffs reduced business investment in the United States by 1.2 percent — or $32.5 billion — in 2018.
March 04, 2019 | Bloomberg
Former Federal Reserve Governor and University of Chicago Economics Professor Randall Kroszner discusses President Trump’s comments about Jay Powell and the strong dollar, interest rates in the U.S. and his outlook for the dollar.
March 04, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randall Kroszner, economics professor at the University of Chicago and former Federal Reserve Governor, discusses the impact of a trade deal on global growth.
March 03, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint
The professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business also urged corporations to look beyond creating shareholder value and focus on interests of all stakeholders.
March 03, 2019 | The Upshot
Richard Thaler shares his perspective on how behavioral economics can help shape retirement saving plans.
March 01, 2019 | Livemint
Op-ed by Raghuram Rajan: The postwar economic success of liberal democracies was not simply the result of letting markets flourish.
February 28, 2019 | Bloomberg
Op-ed by Raghuram Rajan: Angry populist nationalist politicians don’t just rally the native-born against minorities and immigrants, but against the ceding of power to international bodies.
February 28, 2019 | Forbes
Being able to deliver this news in the right way is crucial for both parties, however, and recent research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business suggests that our fears are mostly overblown.
February 27, 2019 | The New York Times
“The question that befuddles traditional economists is why people want these refunds,” said Richard Thaler, a Nobel-winning economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
February 27, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint | Yahoo!
An interesting historical study by University of Chicago finance professor Luigi Zingales and others highlights the long-term benefits of decentralizing power back to the community.
February 27, 2019 | Oprah Magazine
"Historically, anthropomorphizing has been treated as a sign of childishness or stupidity, but it's actually a natural byproduct of the tendency that makes humans uniquely smart on this planet," Dr Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago said.
February 26, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
In the survey conducted last month, private-sector companies said increased tariffs and trade tensions have led them to reduce capital expenditures by an average of 1.2%, according to the Survey of Business Uncertainty, a joint project of the Atlanta Fed, Stanford University and the University of
Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
February 26, 2019 | MarketWatch
Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2017 for his work in behavioral economics.
February 26, 2019 | Bloomberg
Raghuram Rajan, former Reserve Bank of India Governor and author of "The Third Pillar," discusses the element of community missing from democratic capitalism. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
February 26, 2019 | Bloomberg
(Raghuram) Rajan, who’s now at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, was speaking to Tom Keene and Francine Lacqua on Bloomberg Television about his book on globalization and capitalism.
February 26, 2019 | Bloomberg
In "Single Best Chart," Raghuram Rajan, former Reserve Bank of India Governor and author of "The Third Pillar," examines economic growth and the rebound in U.S. real wages. He speaks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
February 26, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint
Raghuram Rajan is professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
February 25, 2019 | Yahoo!
“What we need is to bring some of those powers back first to the nation, then back to the region, then finally back to the community so that people have a sense of agency,” said (Raghuram) Rajan, now a professor at the Chicago Booth School of Business.
February 23, 2019 | Zero Hedge
The paper,“Low interest rates, market power and productivity growth” by Ernest Liu, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, examines the behavior of firms in a competitive marketplace as interests decline, and demonstrates that, although lower interest rates at first increase competitiveness through increased
investment, they also increase the comparative advantage of large firms, thus after a time discouraging the smaller firms from investing and making the market less competitive.
February 22, 2019 | Yahoo!
The paper, from Deutsche Bank’s Peter Hooper, former Fed Governor Frederic Mishkin, and University of Chicago professor Amir Sufi, notes that some parts of the country are already seeing these effects.
February 22, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal | Morningstar
In the paper, economists Peter Hooper of Deutsche Bank , Frederic Mishkin of Columbia University and Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago, present research revealing the potential for price pressures to pick up, as unemployment falls to very low levels.
February 22, 2019 | Inc.
"For centuries, our willingness to recognize minds in nonhumans has been seen as a kind of stupidity, a childlike tendency toward anthropomorphism and superstition that educated and clear-thinking adults have outgrown," Nicholas Epley, an author, professor of behavioral science at the University
of Chicago, and expert on anthropomorphism (assigning human qualities to non-human things), explains in a long, fascinating Quartz article on the subject.
February 22, 2019 | Financial Times
The authors of the paper, who were Peter Hooper, Frederic Mishkin and Amir Sufi, found reports of the death of the Phillips Curve, which links unemployment and price growth, had been exaggerated.
February 22, 2019 | CNBC
"The normalization of the balance sheet is not a competing goal," he said at the Chicago Booth U.S. Monetary Policy Forum in New York.
February 22, 2019 | CNBC
Speaking Friday at a University of Chicago Booth School of Business conference, New York Federal Reserve Bank President John Williams and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both said they still believe that tight labor markets do put upward pressure on inflation, and that with unemployment at 4
percent, the Fed must guard against prices surging.
February 22, 2019 | Bloomberg | Quint | Yahoo!
Williams’s remarks came in response to a paper presented at the conference by economists Peter Hooper of Deutsche Bank Securities, Frederic Mishkin of Columbia University and the University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi.
February 22, 2019 | Market Watch
The paper was written by Peter Hooper, global head of economic research at Deutsche Bank Securities, former Fed Governor Richard Mishkin and Amir Sufi, an economics professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
February 19, 2019 | The Economist
But it is also short-sighted, argues Raghuram Rajan, an economist at the University of Chicago and the former head of India’s central bank.
February 19, 2019 | Forbes
The school joins HBS 2+2, Stanford GSB Deferred Enrollment, Yale Silver Scholars, the Wharton Moelis Advance Access Program, Darden Future Years Scholar Program and the Chicago Booth Scholars Program to offer rising stars a head start on the MBA.
February 19, 2019 | NPR
This is Ed O'Brien. He's a social psychologist at the University of Chicago. Along with his colleague, Michael Kardas, he studies people's intuitions about what a new experience will feel like.
February 15, 2019 | Inc.
In 2011, researchers at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business discovered that advanced-level students in a French literature class favored teachers who hammered them with corrective feedback over those who took a gentler approach.
February 14, 2019 | NPR
Richard Thaler, who received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Studies, said when the Trump administration passed its tax cut, it also adjusted the withholding tables.
February 14, 2019 | CNBC
Austan Goolsbee, former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama and current University of Chicago's Booth School of Business professor, joins "Squawk Box" give his analysis on the various Democratic Party proposals to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
February 14, 2019 | Market Watch
That is the conclusion I reached upon analyzing momentum’s performance since 1927 in the U.S. stock market, courtesy of the database maintained by University of Chicago finance professor (and Nobel laureate) Eugene Fama and Dartmouth finance professor Ken French.
February 13, 2019 | CBS
Economist Austan Goolsbee is a former Obama White House official at the University of Chicago.
February 12, 2019 | Bloomberg
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, reflects on U.S.-China relations.
February 12, 2019 | The Guardian
According to John Paul Rollert, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Schultz has certainly nailed “management 101” given his success at Starbucks.
February 09, 2019 | Gulf News
Ten years from the global financial crisis, the global financial system is in much better shape and there are no imminent signs of a crisis of global nature on the horizon, according to Randall S. Kroszner, deputy dean for executive programmes and Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the
University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
February 09, 2019 | Gulf News
However, these numerous new rules require some fine-tuning to make them more effective, according to Randall S. Kroszner, deputy dean for Executive Programmes and the Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
February 09, 2019 | Gulf News
However, like any other central bank in the world that are created by their own respective legislatures, the Fed to is mandated to focus on the US economic interests,” Randall S. Kroszner, deputy dean for executive programmes and Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at University of Chicago
Booth School of Business, told Gulf News in an interview.
February 08, 2019 | Forbes
Chicago’s number one rank is no accident. The school invented the Executive MBA format in 1943.
February 06, 2019 | CNBC
Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama, and Romina Boccia, fiscal and economic policy analyst from the Heritage Foundation, discuss the merits of Trump’s fears of socialism.
February 06, 2019 | Freakonomics
In 2005, Raghuram Rajan said the financial system was at risk “of a catastrophic meltdown.”
February 05, 2019 | Bloomberg
Low interest rates may be driving market concentration, Princeton University’s Atif Mian and Ernest Liu and the University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi argue in this working paper.
February 04, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal/Morningstar
Greater domination or outright monopolies have lowered productivity rates and made the economy less dynamic, the paper by Ernest Liu and Atif Mian of Princeton University and Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, said.
February 04, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Over the past two decades or so that phenomenon has been playing out across industries, making the overall economy less dynamic, according to new research by economists Ernest Liu and Atif Mian of Princeton University, and Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
February 04, 2019 | The New York Times
To provide a nonpartisan appraisal, I’ve reviewed surveys of about 50 leading economists — liberals and conservatives — run by the University of Chicago.
February 04, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randall Kroszner, professor of economics at Chicago Booth School of Business and a former Federal Reserve governor, talks about the central bank's policy and Treasuries. He speaks with Yousef Gamal El-Din and Manus Cranny on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East."
February 04, 2019 | Tampa Bay Times
Neale Mahoney, a University of Chicago economics professor, said that the research by Warren and her co-authors overstates the share of bankruptcies caused by health shocks.
February 03, 2019 | The Wall Street Journal
Groundbreaking research by University of Chicago finance professor (and Nobel laureate) Eugene Fama and Dartmouth professor Ken French found that such stocks over the long term have significantly outperformed so-called growth stocks—those with the highest such ratios.
February 01, 2019 | CNBC
Jeff Rosenberg of Blackrock, Victoria Fernandez of Crossmark Global Investments, Austan Goolsbee from the University of Chicago and David McIntosh from the Club for Growth join "Squawk Box" with their immediate reactions to the January jobs report.
January 30, 2019 | Bloomberg
Randy Kroszner, University of Chicago Professor & Former Fed Governor, discusses whether the tight labor market could lead to inflation.
January 29, 2019 | Inc.
A new study by Kaitlin Wooley (Cornell University) and Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago) showed that job candidates frequently underestimate how much recruiters want to hear them say four magic words.
January 29, 2019 | MSNBC
Fmr. Obama Economic Advisor Austan Goolsbee and Washington Post Conservative Opinion writer Jennifer Rubin join Lawrence.
January 29, 2019 | The National Review
A recent study by finance professors Steven Neil Kaplan of the University of Chicago and Joshua Rauh of Stanford found that fewer of those who made it on to the Forbes 400 list in recent years grew up wealthy than in previous decades, falling from 60 percent in 1982 to just 32 percent today.
January 28, 2019 | CNBC
Austan Goolsbee, former Council of Economic Advisers chairman, and James Pethokoukis, American Enterprise Institute fellow, takes a look at the impact of the government shutdown, the deficit, and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz presidential prospects.
January 28, 2019 | CNBC
Randy Kroszner of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business says the U.S. Fed is better able to withstand such comments, compared to other institutions like the Reserve Bank of India.
January 27, 2019 | WTTW/American Public Televison
Host Mark Bazer interviews Richard H. Thaler, 2017 Nobel Prize winning economist and co-author, "Nudge."
January 27, 2019 | CNBC/Yahoo!
The Trump administration has moved from upholding the rules of international trade, says Steven Davis, professor of international business and economics at Chicago Booth.
January 25, 2019 | Bloomberg
“The lesson is that the details are going to matter a lot,” said Eric Zwick, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, who co-authored the study with three other economists, including the Treasury Department’s Matthew Smith.
January 25, 2019 | Forbes
This is according to tracking data from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and Stanford University.
January 25, 2019 | Bloomberg
Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan discusses the U.S.-China trade dispute, Federal Reserve policy, global economic risks, and the state of India's economy.
January 25, 2019 | CNBC
Randy Kroszner, deputy dean and professor of economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discusses fears of a slowdown in the global economy.
January 24, 2019 | Brookings
Stephen Davis of the University of Chicago and John Haltiwanger of the University of Maryland pin this on housing markets because new businesses often rely on housing wealth for financing.
January 23, 2019 | The New York Times
The shutdown and the trade war have helped to raise economic policy uncertainty in the United States and around the world, according to indexes compiled by the economists Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Nick Bloom of Stanford University and Scott Ross Baker
of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
January 23, 2019 | Forbes
Since the mid-1990s, the number of companies making up the stock market has declined by over half, from 8,000 to 3,627 in 2016, according to data from the Center for Research in Security Prices at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, as reported in The New York Times.
January 23, 2019 | CNN
"There hasn't been a huge surge in response to tax reform," said Eric Zwick, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who studies the interaction between public policy and corporate behavior.
January 22, 2019 | Financial Times
For example, Luigi Zingales, director of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, believes the notion of “political risk”, a staple of business courses for years, is no longer adequate.
January 22, 2019 | The Economist
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business regains first place from neighbouring Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
January 21, 2019 | The New York Times/WRAL/MSN
If this were happening in Europe, as Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago told me, people would be pouring into the streets.
January 20, 2019 | Medium
Ron Burt, Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business conducted several studies to understand the commonalities between extraordinary innovators in multiple disciplines.
January 18, 2019 | Inside Higher Ed
The drops ranged from 2.6 percent at Columbia University to 8.2 percent at the University of Chicago.
January 17, 2019 | The Washington Post
While it’s tempting to write off the incident as a one-time blunder — heavy-handed corporate lobbying gone amok — new research from Marianne Bertrand at the University of Chicago and others finds that’s not the case.
January 15, 2019 | Bloomberg
In the new paper, “Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century,” Matthew Smith of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis, Danny Yagan of the University of California at Berkeley, Owen Zidar of Princeton Univesity and Eric Zwick of the University of Chicago take issue with the
conclusions of Piketty et al.
January 11, 2019 | Forbes India
The other day at the IIM Bangalore, we had an interesting lecture by Professor Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business on ‘Crony Capitalism’.
January 09, 2019 | Inc.
A new study by Kaitlin Wooley (Cornell University) and Ayelet Fishbach (University of Chicago) showed that job candidates frequently underestimate how much recruiters want to hear them say four magic words.
January 08, 2019 | Yahoo!
Paper: How Can Economics Solve Its Gender Problem?/Author(s): Janet Yellen (former Fed Chair), Susan Athey (Stanford), Sebnem Kalemli-Özcan (University of Maryland), Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago)
January 08, 2019 | NPR
We learn more from Emma Levine, assistant professor of behavioral science at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
January 07, 2019 | The Washington Post
For context, that happened only seven times before, total, over the previous 118 years , according to University of Chicago professor Steven J. Davis.
January 07, 2019 | Bloomberg
“If these institutions are to be made more appealing to the rest of the world, the lock hold that the United States and Europe have on both the president of the World Bank and managing director of the IMF has to end,” said Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and now a
finance professor at the University of Chicago.
January 07, 2019 | NBC
New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business found that our eating style has an influence on cooperation, and that “family-style” dining, in which diners divvy up portions from shared dishes, promotes better collaboration and faster-deal making.
January 06, 2019 | Yahoo!
Because the custom requires people to coordinate their physical actions, it might in turn prompt them to coordinate their negotiations,” researchers Ayelet Fishbach and Kaitlin Woolley hypothesised.
January 06, 2019 | Forbes
All of this draws on Nudge Theory, a concept catapulted into the mainstream by Richard Thaler, the University of Chicago Behavioral Science and Economics professor who won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on the subject.
January 04, 2019 | CNBC
You spend all that time at work already, it seems like extra steps and people want to just cut to the chase,” Ayelet Fishbach, co-author of the research and a professor of behavioral science at the University of Chicago, tells CNBC Make It.
January 04, 2019 | The Conversation
The two professors, Marianne Bertrand and Antoinette Schoar, from University of Chicago and MIT respectively, calculated that individual chief executives only contribute to between 2% and 4% of a company’s total performance.
January 03, 2019 | Bloomberg
“One day China is a currency manipulator, another day it is not,” financial economists Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business wrote in May 2017 for VoxEU.org, a website of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
January 02, 2019 | World Economic Forum
Instead of a lecture or small-group exercises, management professor Harry Davis got everyone on their feet and formed a choir.
January 01, 2019 | MSN
The study, led by Kaitlin Woolley from Cornell University and Ayelet Fishbach from the University of Chicago, found that participants believe that both enjoyment and importance are significant factors in whether they stick to their resolutions.
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