ECONOMICS - Key Persons


Ada Barbosa

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to Fang, Mulligan, Myerson, Neckermann, Salas, Vasudevan

Alexander Torgovitsky

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2017 ) Director, Graduate Admissions
Interests: Microeconometrics; applied econometrics; causal inference

Alvin H. Baum

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago

Amanda Borucki


Amir Sufi

Job Titles:
  • Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Chicago Booth School of Business

Amymarie Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Alvarez, Brooks, List, Tintelnot
  • Executive Assistant to Alvarez, Bursztyn, List, Ponomarev

Anastacia Davis Bersch

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Chair, Akcigit, Deshpande, Kaplan

Anne Karing

Job Titles:
  • the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2021 )

Anup Malani

Job Titles:
  • Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law, the University of Chicago Law School

Arnold C. Harberger

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

Azeem Shaikh

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics and the College Thornber Research Fellow ( at Chicago

Ben Marrow

Job Titles:
  • Primary Research Focus: Finance

Benjamin Brooks

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Economics and the College Director, Graduate Studies
Interests: Games of incomplete information, auction theory and mechanism design, and repeated games.

Brittney Walker

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Bonhomme, Karing, Rose, Shaikh

Bruce Lindsay

Job Titles:
  • Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Chicago Booth School of Business

Camilla Schneier

Job Titles:
  • Secondary Research Focus: Commercial Real Estate, Retail, Applied Microeconomics

Casey Mulligan

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor
Interests: Non-pecuniary incentives to save and work; how economy affects policy

Christina Brown

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2021 )

Crystal Taylor-Nevils

Job Titles:
  • Grants and Contracts Administrator

Dan Black

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Deputy Dean for Academic Programs, Harris School of Public Policy

Daniel Ehrlich

Job Titles:
  • Primary Research Focus: Macroeconomics, Trade, Development / Secondary Research Focus: Finance

Daniel Levin

Job Titles:
  • Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Emeritus, Harris School of Public Policy

David Galenson

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 1978 )
Interests: The life cycles of human creativity; art markets

David McDaniel Keller

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics Emeritus, Chicago Booth School of Business

David O. Meltzer

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

Diana Smith

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager, Griffin Applied Economics Incubator

Diane Blair

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant, Kenneth C. Griffin Applied Economics Incubator Ersoy, Galvez - Soriano, Reichert, Tartari

Dolly Shishodia

Job Titles:
  • Academic Affairs Administrator / Assistant to Balke, Dinerstein, and Lamadon

Doron Ravid

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2015 )
Interests: Economic theory; microeconomics, game and choice theory, behavioral economics

Elena Istomina

Job Titles:
  • Primary Research Focus: Microeconomic Theory / Secondary Research Focus: Industrial Organization, Behavioral

Emma Rubenstein

Job Titles:
  • Student Affairs Administrator for the MAPPS and MACCS Programs / Assistant to Min Sok Lee

Eric Richert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2021 )

Evan Rose

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Economics and the College Co - Director, Graduate Placement
  • Co - Director of Graduate Placement

Faith Fatchen

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist, Economics for Everyone Initiative

Fatima Azmat

Job Titles:
  • Research Director for Leonardo Bursztyn

Fernando Alvarez

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

George C. Tiao

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Chicago Booth School of Business

George Constantinides

Job Titles:
  • Leo Melamed Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business

George J. Stigler

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago
Interests: Labor markets; search theory; mismatch between workers and jobs; private information; duration dependence.

Günter Hitsch

Job Titles:
  • Kilts Family Professor of Marketing, Chicago Booth School of Business

Harald Uhlig

Job Titles:
  • the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2007 )
Interests: Applied quantitative theory and applied dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium theory; the intersection of macroeconomics and financial economics; Bayesian time series analysis and macroeconomic applications

James J. Heckman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Center
  • Distinguished Service Professor

James M. Kilts

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar, Chicago Booth School of Buisness

Jamie Temmer

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Galenson, Hortaçsu, Mogstad, Reny, Tabord - Meehan

Jeanne Sorin

Job Titles:
  • Secondary Research Focus: Environmental

Jiya Nair

Job Titles:
  • Special Projects Coordinator / Executive Assistant to Glennerster

John Dewey

Job Titles:
  • John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

Joseph L. Gidwitz

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business

Joseph Root

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago

Joseph Vavra

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics, Chicago Booth School of Business

Joy Serletic

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator Executive Assistant to Hansen

Julie Wong

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student Affairs Administrator

Juliette Finetti

Job Titles:
  • Research Director for Anne Karing

Kathryn Falzareno

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Affairs Administrator

Kayla Partacz

Job Titles:
  • Business Administrator
  • Junior Faculty Recruitment

Kenneth C. Griffin

Job Titles:
  • Department of Economics / the University of Chicago

Kevin M. Murphy

Interests: Empirical analysis of inequality, unemployment, and relative wages; economics of growth and development; addiction; the economic value of improvements in health and longevity

Kirill Ponomarev

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago

Konstantin Sonin

Job Titles:
  • John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

Kumar Biswas

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist for Brown

Lars Peter Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Distinguished Service Professor

Leo Melamed

Job Titles:
  • Leo Melamed Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business

Leonardo Bursztyn

Job Titles:
  • the Saieh Family Professor in Economics and the College
Interests: Behavioral Economics, Political Economy, Development Economics.

Madisson Younglove

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager

Magne Mogstad

Interests: Labor economics; public economics; analysis of social mobility and inequality

Manasi Deshpande

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2016 ) Co - Director, Graduate Placement
  • Co - Director of Graduate Placement
Interests: Empirical public finance and labor economics, effects of social insurance and public assistance programs, and labor markets

Maricela Avila

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Coordinator II

Max Tabord-Meehan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2019 )
Interests: Econometric theory and applied econometrics

Melissa De Vries

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Richard Davies, Economics for Everyone Initiative

Merton H. Miller

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business

Mikhail Golosov

Interests: Macroeconomics; public finance; political economy

Nancy L. Stokey

Job Titles:
  • the Frederick Henry Prince Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 1990 )
Interests: Growth theory; economic dynamics; fiscal and monetary policy

Peter Ganong

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

Philip J. Reny

Interests: auction theory, information aggregation, game theory, and the theory of mechanism design

Pietro Veronesi

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Dean for Faculty and Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business

Rachel Glennerster

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Division of Social Sciences

Robert R. McCormick

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth School of Business

Roger B. Myerson

Job Titles:
  • Game Theory Information Economics Economic Models of Voting and Politics

Ronald E. Tarrson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics and Willard Graham Faculty Scholar, Chicago Booth School of Business

Sasha Petrov

Job Titles:
  • Primary Research Focus: International Trade, Political Economy / Secondary Research Focus: Computational

Shannon Williams

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Mongey, Pieters, Ravid, Root, Torgovitsky

Shanon Hsuan-Ming Hsu

Job Titles:
  • Secondary Research Focus: Political Economy

Sherry Manick

Job Titles:
  • Director of Finance, Operations, and Personnel

Sonia Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to Brooks, Neal, Uhlig
  • Executive Assistant to Bursztyn, Gonzalez, Kuevibulvanich, Neal, Uhlig

Steven Durlauf

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor

Stéphane Bonhomme

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

Tanya Rajan

Job Titles:
  • Primary Research Focus: Development Economics, Labor Economics / Secondary Research Focus: Health Economics

Thibaut Lamadon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago

Thomas Hierons

Job Titles:
  • Secondary Research Focus: Econometrics

Tomas J. Philipson

Job Titles:
  • Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Emeritus, Harris School of Public Policy

Ufuk Akcigit

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

Virginia Bova

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to Hardwick, Joensen, Lucas, Murphy, Pena, Zhao

William B. Ogden

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
  • Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College ( at Chicago since 2001 )
Interests: Economic models of crime and corruption; the criminal justice system; abortion legalization; school choice; how businesses make decisions.

Zhiguo He

Job Titles:
  • Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance and Jeuck Faculty Fellow, Chicago Booth School of Business