Suppose you wanted to construct a new index to track the US stock market. What would you use as a model? The Dow Jones Industrial Average might be an option, but it’s hardly representative of the ...

In recognition of Tolan’s remarkable contributions, the school’s Healthcare Initiative will become the Tolan Center for ...

Manufacturers, for the most part, don’t run their operations at full capacity. Machines sit idle. Processes are slowed. Macroeconomists have long studied the effects of these costly choices, asking, ...

One observation is that the ease of bank transfers appears to have changed how the Fed’s monetary policy is absorbed in the market, suggests research by the Ohio State University’s Isil Erel, ...

The researchers looked at a decade’s worth of shopping data in states where marijuana was legalized. Analyzing the panel data from 48 states and about 20 million weekly household purchases made over a ...

June 24–26, 2011 - Brussels. This year marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of Grossman and Hart’s seminal paper “The Costs and the Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral ...

June 20-22, 2022. Sponsored by The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. We are pleased to announce the twenty-first annual INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing (RM&P) Section Conference, ...

Explore articles from the Summer 2025 issue of Chicago Booth Review.

A prominent economist once told me that macroeconomic policy debates are all about the prime mover to which other variables respond. The implication, he explained, is that you can invert policy ...

This competition is translating into benefits for US wallets and pocketbooks—and may still be good for companies too. Says Vavra, “We know that people have complex and differentiated tastes and ...

The emphasis should be on new companies, ideas, and products that allow the country to own the high end of the value chain. India can adopt a new path to development, one that no developing country ...