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Damon Jones is an American economist and associate professor at the Harris School of Public Policy in the University of Chicago.Alongside his academic research, Jones is a popular science communicator and regularly provides expert commentary on issues related to economics and public policy.
In 2020 he was named the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics. His research concentrates on economic growth and development , and uses an interdisciplinary approach blending micro and macro economic concepts to examine the intersection of policy and innovation.
Fama's MBA and PhD came from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in economics and finance. His doctoral supervisors were Nobel prize winner Merton Miller and Harry V. Roberts, but Benoit Mandelbrot was also an important influence. [7] He has spent the entirety of his teaching career at the University of Chicago.
From 1957–58, Grunfeld was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago (UChicago). [3] His 1958 doctoral thesis at UChicago is The Determinants of Corporate Investment ; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics."
Henry Calvert Simons (1899–1946) did his graduate work at the University of Chicago but did not submit his final dissertation to receive a degree. [34] In fact, he was initially influenced by Frank Knight while he was an assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 1925 to 1927, and in summer 1927 Simons decided to join the Department ...
Eugene Fama, “Man Who Launched Modern Finance” - Nobel Prize–winning financial economist and originator of the efficient-market hypothesis and co-originator of Fama & French Three Factors Model (also alumnus, M.B.A. and Ph.D.) Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize–winning economist, known for work in economic history and population economics (deceased)
The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought is one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago. It was started in 1941 by economic historian John Ulric Nef along with economist Frank Knight , anthropologist Robert Redfield , and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins .
Between 2008 and 2011, the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics was an academic center established at the University of Chicago as a collaborative, cross-disciplinary site for research in economics. The Institute aimed to advance, refine, and share research that applied the tools of economic analysis to real-world issues.