Scholars | BFI

UChicago Scholars include faculty specializing in economics and related disciplines from across the University. Learn more.

This list reflects Visiting Scholars from the 2023-2024 and 2022-2023 academic year.

View a list of current and past Fellows. Learn More.

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Gregory Veramendi

Associate Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Conor Walsh

Assistant Professor, Colombia University

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Amanda Kowalski

Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

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Xiao Lin

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

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Tamara McGavock

Assistant Professor, Grinnell University

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Jonathan Elliott

Assistant Professor, John Hopkins University

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Sonia Bhalotra

Professor, University of Warwick

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Eduardo Davila

Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University

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Jose-Alberto Guerra

Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

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Basit Zafar

Professor, University of Michigan

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Eric Ghysels

Edward Bernstein Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Finance, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill

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Juan Sebastián Galán Guerrero

Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

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Lukas Nord

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

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Aradhya Sood

Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy, University of Toronto

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Luisa Cefala

Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

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Kiminori Matsuyama

Professor of Economics, Northwestern University

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Pierre Nguimkeu

Associate Professor, Georgia State University

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Dongchen Zhao

University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business

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Bruno Strulovici

Northwestern University

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David Ahn

Washington University St. Louis

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Yanhui Wu

University of Hong Kong

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Milan Van Den Hewvel

Ghent University (Belgium)GJuhent

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Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Princeton University

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Frank Smets

European Central Bank

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Thomas Le Barbanchon

Bocconi University

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Sara Lowes

University of California San Diego

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Pablo Selaya

University of Copenhagen

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Frederico Finan

University of California Berkley

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Jonathan Colmer

University of Virginia

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Wenxi Jiang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Francis Wong

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Ingrid Haegele

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

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Thomas Drechsel

University of Maryland

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Chidi Ugwu

University of Nigeria

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Tristan Reed

World Bank

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Douglas Staiger

Dartmouth College

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Sydney Ludvigson

New York University

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Andrei Levchenko

University of Michigan

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Pascual Restrepo

Boston University

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Rawley Heimer

Arizona State University

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Alice Evans

King's College London

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Sophie Bade

Royal Holloway College, University of London

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Maria Carreri

University of California San Diego

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Felipe Balmaceda

Andres Bello University

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Cormac O’Dea

Yale University

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Huiyu Li

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

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Tarek Hassan

Boston University

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Tatyana Deryugina

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Vitor Possebom

Sao Paulo School of Economics - FGV

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Chloe East

University of Colorado at Denver

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Scott Rozelle

Stanford University

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Dimitrios Tsomocos

Oxford University

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Cecile Gaubert

University of California Berkley

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Till von Wachter

University of California Los Angeles

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Felipe Gonzalez

Queen Mary University of London

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Natalia Bailey

Monash University

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Jin Yeub Kim

Yonsei University

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Maxwell Kellogg

University of Oslo

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Florian Scheuer

University of Zurich

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Arnaud Maurel

Duke University

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Fabian Eckert

University of California San Diego

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Chenggang Xu

Stanford University

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko

University of California Berkley

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Chen Lian

University of California Berkley

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Nikhil Agarwal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Weijia Li

Monash University

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Idione Meneghel

Australian National University.

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Lindsay Relihan

Purdue University

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Maarten De Ridder

London School of Economics

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Christopher Snyder

Dartmouth University

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Ingrid Huitfeldt

Norwegian Business School

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Diana Van Patten

Yale University

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Ellen Muir

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Linh Tô

Boston University

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Ivan Werning

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Jasmine Xiao

University of Notre Dame

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Doireann Fitzgerald

Federal Reserve of Minneapolis

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Pedro Sant’Anna

Vanderbilt University

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Dmitry Mukhin

London School of Economics

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Diego Gambetta

Collegio Carlo Alberto

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Afshin Nikzad

University of Southern California

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Rachael Meager

University of New South Wales

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Calumet Links

Stellenbosch University

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John Eric Humphries

Yale University

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Jiasun Li

George Mason University

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Tomasso Denti

Cornell University

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Jesse Shapiro

Harvard University

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Alexander Monge-Naranjo

European University Institute

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Torsten Walter

New York University, Abu Dhabi

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Hassan Afrouzi

Columbia University

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Aurelio Gurrea Martinez

Singapore Management University

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Niklas Engbom

New York University

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Laura Castillo-Martinez

Duke University

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Hannes Malmberg

University of Minnesota

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Florian Oswald

SciencesPo Paris

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Corina Boar

New York University

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Amit Seru

Stanford University

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Ian Dew-Becker

Northwestern University

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Clément Imbert

University of Warwick

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Pete Klenow

Stanford University

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Samuel Kortum

Yale University

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Fatih Guvenen

University of Minnesota

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Daphné Skandalis

University of Copenhagen

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Daniel Waldenström

Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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Antoinette Schoar

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Neil Cummins

London School of Economics

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Jonathan Wright

John Hopkins University

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Lee Alston

Indiana University

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Serguey Braguinsky

University of Maryland

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Andreas Engert

Freie Universität Berlin

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Jing Li

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Kaspar Zimmermann

Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

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Hui Chen

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Nicolas Bonneton

University of Mannheim

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Benjamin Hébert

Stanford University

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Robert Moffitt

John Hopkins University

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Jennifer Peck

Swarthmore College

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Fedor Sandomirskiy

California Institute of Technology

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Noam Yuchtman

London School of Economics

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Benjamin Pugsley

University of Notre Dame

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Maryam Farboodi

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Thomas Holmes

University of Minnesota

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Hanno Lustig

Stanford University

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Juan Galan

Universidad de los Andes

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David Baqaee

University of California, Los Angeles

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Mark Aguiar

Princeton University

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Serdar Ozkan

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

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Loukas Karabarbounis

University of Minnesota

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Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Columbia University

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Andrea Vedolin

Boston University

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Benjamin Schoefer

University of California, Berkeley

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Tommaso Porzio

Columbia University

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Claudio Sapelli

Universidad Católica

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Isaac Sorkin

Stanford University

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Matthias Kehrig

Duke University

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Dmitry Arkhangelsky

Center for Monetary and Financial Studies

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Maria Micaela Sviatschi

Princeton University

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Thorsten Drautzburg

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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Guojun He

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Xavier Gabaix

Harvard University

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Christopher P. Chambers

Georgetown University

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Rob Collinson

University of Notre Dame

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Daniel Waldinger

New York University

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Carolyn Sloane

University of California, Riverside

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Ariel Burstein

University of California, Los Angeles

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Elena Pastorino

Stanford University

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Patrick Kehoe

Stanford University

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Job Boerma

University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Johan Fourie

University of Stellenbosch

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Katrine Loken

Norwegian School of Economics

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Ricardo Caballero

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Ernest Liu

Princeton University

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Yeon-Koo Che

Columbia University

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David Yanagizawa-Drott

University of Zurich

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Gautam Rao

Harvard University

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Ulf Zölitz

University of Zurich

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Mariano Kulish

University of Sydney

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Emmanuel Farhi

Harvard University

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Mohammad Akbarpour

Stanford University

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Jennifer La’O

Columbia University

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Shoshana Vasserman

Stanford University

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Leena Rudanko

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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Ismael Mourifié

Washington University in St. Louis

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Meijun Qian

Australian National University

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David Yves Albouy

University of Illinois

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Adrien Bilal

Harvard University

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Ludwig Straub

Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University

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Mark Gertler

New York University

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Adrien Auclert

Stanford University

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Christopher Walters

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

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Jonathan Vogel

University of California, Los Angeles

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Gianluca Violante

Princeton University

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Christopher Taber

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Jón Steinsson

Professor of Economics, Columbia University

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Linda Schilling

Washington University

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Benjamin Moll

London School of Economics, Princeton University

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Elliot Lipnowski

Columbia University