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BFI News·Mar 26, 2026

UNAB Convenes International Economists to Analyze the Impact of AI on Productivity

The event, organized by the Institute of Economic Policy of the School of Business and Economics at Universidad Andrés Bello (UNAB), in collaboration with the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago and the Central Bank of...
Media Mention·Mar 23, 2026

Chad Syverson, experto en productividad de la U. de Chicago: “Debemos ser cautelosamente optimistas sobre la IA”

La Tercera; Chad Syverson
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

AI ‘Slop’ Is Flooding Children’s Media. Parents Should Be Very Alarmed.

The 74; Dana Suskind
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

How Good Manager Bring Out the Best in Their Workers

Chicago Booth Review; Virginia Minni
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

The Case for Loosening Closed-Visa Programs

Chicago Booth Review; Matthew Notowidigdo
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

The AI Boom’s Hidden Victim: Taiwan’s Fragile Insurance Sector

CommonWealth Magazine(Taiwan); Chang-Tai Hsieh
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

How the Nazis used vanity to lure pilots to their deaths

The Spectator (UK); Leo Bursztyn
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

‘A Lot of Life Years Lost’: How NAFTA Shortened American Life Spans

The New York Times; Matthew Notowidigdo
Media Mention·Mar 20, 2026

Michael Frerichs and Harold Pollack: More Illinoisans with disabilities can now save and invest

Chicago Tribune; Harold Pollack
Media Mention·Mar 19, 2026

The ‘great sucking sound’ of AI brain drain

Financial Times; Ufuk Akcigit