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 ...

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 ...

Talk to almost anyone about the forces at work behind Western politics’ contemporary upheaval, and it will not take long for your conversation to reach the discontents of the working class. In the ...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has received $14 million in total gift commitments from University of Chicago trustee and alumnus John Edwardson and Fran Edwardson to support its ...

"'The key thing that makes humans special is so-and-so' is about as worn-out a topic as any. Yet, Henrich delivers an extraordinary and engaging treatise on it." "A friend gave me a copy of Outlive, ...

Fintech is changing how the economy works at the local, national, and global levels—perhaps, in some cases, for the better. Research from the International Monetary Fund’s Nicola Pierri and the US ...