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Michael Weber
Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Scholar, Booth School of Business
Michael Weber joined Chicago Booth in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Finance and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing groups, a member of the Macro Finance Society, and a research affiliate at the CESifo Research Network. He is also an academic consultant for the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland,...
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- Mar 31, 2021The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
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- Mar 15, 2019Research by Chicago Booth’s Michael Weber shows people cut their spending when told they are spending more than others in similar circumstances
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- Jul 24, 2018Research from Booth’s Michael Weber cited in article on “Facing The Fed With Dividends And Options”
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