Three Booth School of Business faculty members have been selected by Finance & Development for its Generation Next ranking, which lists 25 economists younger than 45 who are shaping how people think about the global economy. The three professors were: Matthew Gentzkow, Amit Seru and Amir Sufi.
Gentzkow, whose focus is empirical industrial organization and political economy, especially related to media industries, started at Booth in 2007. He won the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, and is the co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, assistant editor of the RAND Journal of Economics and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
“The others on this list are tremendously talented and engaged economists who I have admired for a long time,” Gentzkow said. “It’s a great honor to be included alongside them.”
Seru, professor of corporate finance, started at Booth in 2007. He also is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation Working Group on Behavioral Economics/Consumer Finance.
“I am delighted and honored to be included in a list of such esteemed scholars,” Seru said. “And I am hoping to do research on firms and financial intermediaries that facilitates more efficient allocation of resources in the economy.”
Sufi, whose focus is finance and macroeconomics, started at Booth in 2009. He also is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and received Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. He recently published the book “House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again,” with Atif Mian of Princeton, who also made the list.
“I am honored to be recognized as a member of this group of excellent young economists,” Sufi says. “The challenges of the global economy require rigorous research diagnosing problems and proposing solutions, and I hope to continue to contribute.”