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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,...
Related Working Papers
- Aug 9, 2021Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups
- May 14, 2021Exposure to Grocery Prices and Inflation Expectations
- Mar 25, 2021The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
- Feb 22, 2021Fiscal Policy and Households’ Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
- Dec 14, 2020Cybersecurity Risk
- Oct 28, 2020Political Polarization and Expected Economic Outcomes
- Oct 15, 2020Effective Policy Communication: Targets versus Instruments
- Aug 14, 2020How Did U.S. Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?
- Jun 9, 2020Does Policy Communication During COVID Work?
- May 5, 2020The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis: Lockdowns, Macroeconomic Expectations, and Consumer Spending
- Apr 13, 2020Labor Markets During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Preliminary View
- Apr 9, 2020Monetary Momentum
- Apr 8, 2020Big G
- Mar 2, 2020Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap
- Feb 10, 2020Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
- Dec 4, 2019Perceived Precautionary Savings Motives: Evidence from FinTech
- Nov 17, 2019Estimating the Anomaly Base Rate
- Sep 17, 2019Punish One, Teach A Hundred: The Sobering Effect of Punishment on the Unpunished
- Sep 15, 2019Monetary Policy Communications and their Effects on Household Inflation Expectations
- Sep 10, 2019IQ, Expectations, and Choice
- Aug 16, 2019Managing Households’ Expectations with Simple Economic Policies
- Jul 31, 2019The Propagation of Monetary Policy Shocks in a Heterogeneous Production Economy
- Mar 1, 2019Crowdsourcing Financial Information to Change Spending Behavior
- Jan 31, 2019Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy
- Aug 3, 2018Price Rigidity and the Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations
- Jul 30, 2018Dissecting Characteristics Nonparametrically
- Mar 27, 2018Historical Antisemitism, Ethnic Specialization, and Financial Development
- Jan 25, 2018Unconventional Fiscal Policy
- Nov 9, 2017The Information Content of Dividends: Safer Profits, Not Higher Profits
- Jun 29, 2017Monetary Policy Slope and the Stock Market
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Related Insights
- Aug 9, 2021Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups
- Mar 31, 2021The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
- Feb 25, 2021Fiscal Policy and Households’ Inflation Expectations: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial
- Dec 14, 2020Cybersecurity Risk
- Oct 29, 2020Effective Policy Communication: Targets versus Instruments
- Aug 14, 2020How Did US Consumers Use Their Stimulus Payments?
- Jul 9, 2020COVID-19 Results in Wave of Early Retirement
- Jun 18, 2020Episode 10: Meet the COVID-19 Consumer
- Jun 1, 2020Key Economic Facts About COVID-19
- May 8, 2020The Cost of the COVID-19 Crisis
- Apr 13, 2020Labor Force Participation Plummets, but US Experiences Modest Rise in Unemployment
- Apr 3, 2020Forward Guidance and Household Expectations • Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap
- Feb 6, 2019IQ, Expectations, and Choice and Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy
- Apr 1, 2018The Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure
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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
- Jul 25, 2018Research from Booth’s Michael Weber and co-authors find that individuals who realize they are spending more than their peers will cut down on spending
- Jul 24, 2018Research from Booth’s Michael Weber cited in article on “Facing The Fed With Dividends And Options”
- Jun 26, 2018Booth’s Michael Weber finds patterns in stock prices that precede announcements by the Federal Reserve
- May 10, 2018Booth’s Michael Weber examines how social norms can affect savings
- Apr 10, 2018Research Brief: Booth’s Michael Weber looks at “The Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure”
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