Past Events

Featuring Pranab Bardhan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

This seminar series will feature outside speakers to present their latest work on international trade, spatial economics, economic geography, and urban economics. If you would like to receive updates via email on future seminars in this series, sign up for...

In recent years, economists have begun to apply the tools of industrial organization (IO) to an ever-growing set of industries. This conference showcased how canonical IO concepts like supply, demand, imperfect competition, and strategic interactions can be applied to a...

Thank you for attending the annual Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference, held on September 26-27, 2024. The conference consisted of a series of presentations on papers at the frontier across microeconomics fields. This conference offered a platform for innovative empirical research...

The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics hosted a conference on Economic Theory celebrating our friend and colleague Phil Reny. This conference featured presentations by Phil’s colleagues, coauthors, and students. GUEST OF HONOR...

How is artificial intelligence (AI) going to change social science and how is social science going to change how AI is used? This conference brought together researchers using AI to address issues in social science, including, but not limited to...

The Becker Friedman Institute’s annual conference on economic theory brought together leading researchers from across the world to discuss recent advances in theoretical microeconomics. Topics included game theory, mechanism design, market design, and information economics. CONFERENCE PHOTOS

The Macro Finance Research Program (MFR), under the auspices of The Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) at The University of Chicago, will be organizing a summer session for PhD students looking to write a dissertation at the interplay of macroeconomics and finance....

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Alex Imas, University of Chicago Michael Kahana, University of Pennsylvania Yueran Ma, University of Chicago Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University LOCATION The Gwen Hotel 521 N Rush St, Chicago, IL, 60611 This conference was by invitation only. If you...

The Price Theory Summer Camp, led by UChicago economist Kevin Murphy, was created to introduce PhD students from outside the University of Chicago to price theory, which emphasizes the application of basic economic tools to problems. During this intensive one-week...