Scholars

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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 2026–2027 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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Henrik Lando

Visiting Scholar

Awa Ambra Seck

Harvard University
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Paula Donaldson

Brown University
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Howard Kung

London Business School
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Giorgio Zanarone

University of Lausanne
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Aljoscha Janssen

Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University
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Ana Soares

, Banco de Portugal
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Rachel Young

Assistant Professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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Xiaoyan Zhang

Chair Professor of Finance & Associate Dean, PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University
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Melanie Wasserman

Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
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Luca Henkel

Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Chien-Yu La

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
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Idaliya Grigoryeva

University of California, San Diego 
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Paulina Restrepo-Echavarría

Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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Brian Greaney

University of Washington
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Daniel Herbst

University of Arizona
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Samuel Ray-Chaudhuri

Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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Yanrong Yang

The Australian National University
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Fabio Parlapiano

Banca d'Italia
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Lee Ohanian

University of California, Los Angeles
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Nicolás Garrido

Director of the Department of Economics and Administration, Associate Professor, Universidad Andrés Bello
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Matthias Hoelzlein

Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
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Eric Ghysels

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Maxwell Kellogg

Assistant Professor, University of Oslo
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Isaac Sorkin

Stanford University