Scholars

BFI is an intellectual destination for the world's best scholars in economics and related fields. We bring researchers together across disciplines and departments to share perspectives that spark new ideas and collaborations.
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UChicago Scholars include faculty specializing in economics and related disciplines from across the University. Learn more.

This list reflects Visiting Scholars from the 2025–2026 academic year. To view a list of all previous BFI Visiting Scholars, please click here.

Learn more and view a list of current and past Fellows here.

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Ursina Schaede

Tufts University
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Ieda Matavelli

University of New South Wales
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Laura Castillo Martinez

Duke University
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Steve Cicala

Tufts University
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Victoria Baranov

University of Melbourne
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Holger Spamann

Harvard University
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Nina Rousille

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Delong Meng

Baylor University
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Rachid Laajaj

Universidad de los Andes
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Ruben Enikolopov

Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Samuel Ray-Chaudhuri

Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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Simon Margolin

University of California, Santa Barbara
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Christopher Tonetti

Stanford University
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Christopher Flinn

New York University
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Benjamin Scuderi

University of Michigan
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Yanrong Yang

The Australian National University
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Lena Song

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde Sanchez

University of Pennsylvania 
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Ester Faia

Goethe University Frankfurt
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Pierre Bodéré

Yale University
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Christian Hellwig

Toulouse School of Economics
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Beatriz Ahumada

The Joint Initiative for Latin American Experimental Economics (JILAEE)
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Samantha Burn

Imperial College London
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Paul Milgrom

Stanford University
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George Alessandria

University of Rochester
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Menno Pradhan

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Jorge Rojas Vallejos

Universidad Andrés Bello
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Fabio Parlapiano

Banca d'Italia
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Adam Sacarny

Columbia University
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Yanhui Wu

University of Hong Kong
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Gabriel Leon-Ablan

King's College
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Babur de Los Santos

Clemson University
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Robert Metcalfe

Columbia University
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Pengpeng Xiao

Duke University
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Nydia Remolina Leon

Singapore Management University
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Lee Ohanian

University of California, Los Angeles
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Gregory Egorov

Northwestern University
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Otto Toivanen

Aalto University
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Alessandro Gavazza

London School of Economics
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Andrew Bacon-Goodman

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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Frank Verboven

KU Leuvan
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Francesco Caselli

London School of Economics
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Wenwei Peng

Harvard University
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Danial Lashkari

Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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Pablo Ottenello

University of Maryland
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Chris Clayton

Yale University
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Juan Luis Correa Allamand

Universidad Andrés Bello
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Carolina Arteaga

University of Toronto
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Frank Yang

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
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Winnie van Dijk

Yale University
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Sasha Indarte

University of Pennsylvania
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Jonathan Vogel

University of California, Los Angeles