Booth MBAs Set to Collaborate With University of Illinois Engineering Students
The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business is looking south for the next big startup idea. Booth is partnering with the University of Illinois College of Engineering in Urbana-Champaign to bring students from both schools together to work on startups. Continue reading…
Six Booth School Professors Make Thomson Reuters List of Thought Leaders
Six University of Chicago Booth School of Business faculty members were named to Thomson Reuters’ list of most influential thinkers, making Chicago Booth No. 1 in business school thought leaders worldwide. Continue reading…
Booth Professor Wins Award For Top Doctorate Paper
Jonathan Dingel, assistant professor of economics at the Booth School of Business, has received the 2014 World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists.
Dingel won the award for “The Determinants of Quality Specialization,” a paper that examines why high-income locations tend to manufacture high-quality goods. In the paper, Dingel assessed two competing theories that could explain this pattern. What he found was that the composition of local consumers’ income levels plays as large a role as local manufacturing workers’ skills in determining manufacturing quality across U.S. cities.
“The evidence suggests that market access plays an important role in quality specialization. I’m absolutely delighted that the WTO has chosen to honor my work on this topic,” Dingel said.
To be considered for this honor, papers must focus on trade policy and international trade cooperation issues. In addition, authors must either be working toward a doctorate or no more than two years past having received a doctorate. Dingel’s paper was written while he was working on his Doctorate at Columbia University.
“This paper addresses a central question in trade theory in an extremely competent way and has potentially important trade policy implications,” The selection committee said.
“This paper is part of a broader research agenda in which co-authors and I are exploring what causes different kinds of people and different kinds of businesses to choose different locations. Those choices have consequences for trade, growth, and inequality,” Dingel said.
Booth Prof. and Other Top Economists Say Scottish Independence Means Instability
A survey of world’s leading business school professors, including Anil Kashyap from the Booth School of Business, suggests Scotland would suffer ‘extreme economic pain’ in the event of a ‘yes’ vote. Continue reading…
Booth Professors Finds Sale of Failed Banks Costs FDIC Big Time
According to new research by Booth School of Business Professors Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru, a significant amount of the $90 billion lost by The Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC) since 2008 occurred because the assets of some banks are sold at fire sale prices. Continue reading…
Asset Pricing Paper by Booth Prof. Wins Top Conference and Doctoral Prizes
Michael Weber, assistant professor of Finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, won a pair of awards from the European Finance Association. His paper, titled “Nominal Rigidities and Asset Pricing,” was named UBS Best Conference Paper and European Finance Association Best Doctoral Student Conference Paper. This made history as it was the first time a doctoral paper won the Conference Paper Prize. Continue reading…
