Faculty Directors

Stéphane Bonhomme, Azeem Shaikh

Description

Government agencies and modern businesses, from banks and online retailers to social media platforms and search engines, are amassing an unprecedented wealth of data in terms of both size and level of detail. This rapidly growing wealth of “big data” provides new opportunities to improve the quality of economic analysis. This initiative explores the ability of big data to fulfill this promise, with the help of newly developed econometric tools.

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Stéphane Bonhomme

Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Big Data Initiative

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Max Farrell

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School of Business

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Christian B. Hansen

Wallace W. Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistcs, Booth School of Business

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Ali Hortaçsu

Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Economics, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Industrial Organization Initiative

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Tetsuya Kaji

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School of Business

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Mladen Kolar

Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School of Business

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Thibaut Lamadon

Assistant Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

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Tengyuan Liang

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and George C. Tiao Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business

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Sanjog Misra

Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business

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Sendhil Mullainathan

Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science, and George C. Tiao Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business

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Guillaume Pouliot

Assistant Professor, Harris Public Policy

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Veronika Rockova

Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and James S. Kemper Foundation Faculty Scholar, Booth School of Business

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Azeem Shaikh

Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics and the College and Thornber Research Fellow, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics; Co-Director of BFI Big Data Initiative

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Max Tabord-Meehan

Assistant Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

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Alexander Torgovitsky

Professor in Economics and the College, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics

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Panos Toulis

Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow, Booth School of Business

BFI Working Paper • Oct 16, 2020

How Well Generative Adversarial Networks Learn Distributions

Tengyuan Liang

Topics: Technology & Innovation

BFI Working Paper • Oct 16, 2020

Estimating Certain Integral Probability Metrics (IPMs) Is as Hard as Estimating under the IPMs

Tengyuan Liang

Topics: Technology & Innovation

BFI Working Paper • Oct 16, 2020

A Precise High-Dimensional Asymptotic Theory for Boosting and Minimum-L1-Norm Interpolated Classifiers

Tengyuan Liang, Pragya Sur

Topics: Technology & Innovation

Media Mention • Oct 24, 2019

The Tipping System Is Immoral

New York Times; John List

BFI News • Feb 20, 2018

Spotlight on BFI’s New Research Initiative to Study Big Data

The Becker Friedman Institute (BFI) launched four new research initiatives earlier this year to support collaborative research and learning around several key issues, including: the study of Big Data;...

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