This workshop focused on the application of core economic tools to address questions that are of interest to researchers and policymakers alike. It met weekly on Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m., in Saieh Hall Room 146. To receive email updates about this workshop series, subscribe here and indicate your interest in upcoming Becker Applied Economics Workshops. […]
This conference featured research that develops, fields and uses surveys of business leaders’ expectations and beliefs. Key topics included the design and evaluation of such surveys, the formation and accuracy of expectations, how expectations feed into business decisions, and the impact of expectations quality on business performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EH1D3nhOGI Steve Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he co-directs BFI’s Price Theory Initiative. Levitt received his BA from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD from MIT in 1994. He has taught at Chicago since 1997. In 2004, Levitt was awarded the John […]
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shockwaves throughout global markets and economies, marking the start of the global financial crisis. With the Dow dropping over 500 points in a single day, the US economy was well on its way to recession. The G.W. Bush Administration’s Emergency Economic Stabilization Act was quickly passed […]
The University of Chicago’s fourth annual US-China Forum brought together experts from the United States and China for a series of high-level discussions on issues of importance to both countries and, by extension, the world. China’s global economic footprint is large and growing. Its economy – now the world’s second-largest – is shifting away from […]
