Chad Syverson is the George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been on the University of Chicago faculty since 2001. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the university.
His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. Syverson has authored or coauthored dozens of scholarly articles and is the coauthor (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) of intermediate-level textbook, Microeconomics. Syverson is a former editor of the Journal of Political Economy, a Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has served on multiple National Academies committees. He teaches classes in industrial organization.
Syverson received a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland in 2001. Before that, he earned bachelor’s degrees in economics and mechanical engineering from the University of North Dakota in 1996.