The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) serves as a hub for cutting-edge analysis and research across the entire University of Chicago economics community, uniting researchers from the Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the...
Inspired by our namesakes, Nobel Laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, who believed that economics research could help improve the world, BFI works with the Chicago Economics community to turn its evidence-based research into real-world impact.
The Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. The program offers unique research and professional training opportunities at the University of Chicago.
Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
We examine the role of central bank reserves and public liquidity when secondary markets may freeze. Central bank reserves help intermediaries purchase assets during stress but crowd out investment. Under laissez-faire, intermediaries hold insufficient reserves, overlooking how aggregate liquidity reduces...
Cesar Chavez Padilla, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman, and Zhe Yang
Using rich data on Chinese schoolchildren, we study the relationships of IQ and personality traits with children’s risk preferences and how they affect the precision with which those preferences are measured. Our structural model separates preferences from deliberation noise and...
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Adry Gracio, Gaurav Khanna, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar
We study how aggregate risk shapes production, trade, and input sourcing in complex supply chains. We develop a quantitative model of sequential production under risk, where each stage sources inputs from multiple origins. Analytically, we first show that sourcing shares...
Captivating and informative videos on the latest insights and trends as well as the tested stock of knowledge in economics from leaders in academia, policy, business, and the media.
A decision maker is averse to not knowing a prior over a set of restricted structured models (ambiguity) and suspects that each structured model is misspecified. The decision maker evaluates intertemporal plans under all of the structured models and, to recognize possible misspecifications, under unstructured alternatives that are statistically close to them. Likelihood ratio processes are used to represent unstructured alternative models, while relative entropy restricts a set of unstructured models. A set of structured models might be finite or indexed by a finite-dimensional vector of unknown parameters that could vary in unknown ways over time. We model such a decision maker with a dynamic version of variational preferences and revisit topics including dynamic consistency and admissibility.
The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) serves as a hub for cutting-edge analysis and research across the entire University of Chicago economics community, uniting researchers from the Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the...
Inspired by our namesakes, Nobel Laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, who believed that economics research could help improve the world, BFI works with the Chicago Economics community to turn its evidence-based research into real-world impact.
The Predoctoral Research in Economics Program (PREP) is intended to serve as a bridge between college and graduate school for students interested in empirical economics. The program offers unique research and professional training opportunities at the University of Chicago.
Expanding Discovery in Economics+ (EDE+) brings together a diverse group of early undergraduate students to hone their research abilities and technical skills.
We examine the role of central bank reserves and public liquidity when secondary markets may freeze. Central bank reserves help intermediaries purchase assets during stress but crowd out investment. Under laissez-faire, intermediaries hold insufficient reserves, overlooking how aggregate liquidity reduces...
Cesar Chavez Padilla, Shuaizhang Feng, James Heckman, and Zhe Yang
Using rich data on Chinese schoolchildren, we study the relationships of IQ and personality traits with children’s risk preferences and how they affect the precision with which those preferences are measured. Our structural model separates preferences from deliberation noise and...
Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Adry Gracio, Gaurav Khanna, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar
We study how aggregate risk shapes production, trade, and input sourcing in complex supply chains. We develop a quantitative model of sequential production under risk, where each stage sources inputs from multiple origins. Analytically, we first show that sourcing shares...
Captivating and informative videos on the latest insights and trends as well as the tested stock of knowledge in economics from leaders in academia, policy, business, and the media.
