Three Booth Professors Named to Finance & Development Rank
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. Continue reading…
Are You Ready For Some Football: Booth Research Examines Timing of NFL Contracts
The National Football League is a huge money making business. With the regular season kicking off in just a few days, new research from the Booth School of Business shows that timing is of the essence with players enter contract negotiations.
“This paper is about a seemingly very small part of the NFL contracting — when do you get paid in the off-season?” Gregor Matvos, an associate professor of finance at Chicago Booth, said. Continue reading…
Booth Research Best Car Deals Found Near Closed Lots
According to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, when Chrysler closed a quarter of its dealerships as part of its bankruptcy filing in 2009, prices within a sales area went up the least at the dealerships nearest to the closed one. The research finds that it’s best to go where you have plenty of choices and competition. Continue reading…
New Booth Study Shows Low Profits Drive Mergers
New research from the Booth School of Business finds that low profits drive mergers more so then low productivity. The paper, “Acquisitions, Productivity and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry,” was written by Booth professor Chad Syverson, with co-authors Serguey Braguinsky of Carnegie Mellon University, Atsushi Ohyama of Hokkaido University and Tetsuji Okazaki of the University of Tokyo. Continue reading…
Booth Prof. Honored with Distinguished Award
Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting at the Booth School of Business, is one of three recipients of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award. Continue reading…
Booth Research Looks at Post-Recession Trade War Scenarios
New research from the Booth School of Business lays out a framework to see what would have happened if a trade war had broken out after the Great Recession. In his upcoming paper to be published in American Economic Review, “Trade Wars and Trade Talk with Data“, Professor Ralph Ossa looks at three scenarios— tariffs that would be levied if there were no fear of retaliation; retaliatory tariffs in a worldwide trade war; and tariffs that are negotiated cooperatively. Continue reading…
