Professor Amir Sufi will highlight the importance of household debt in driving business cycles, both in the United States and abroad.
Event Details
Advanced economies with the largest rise in household debt from 2000 to 2007, such as Ireland, Spain, and the United States, experienced the most severe downturns during the Great Recession. Current economic difficulties in Brazil, China, and Thailand were also preceded by a borrowing binge by households. In this lecture, Professor Sufi will highlight the importance of household debt in driving business cycles, both in the United States and abroad.
Speaker Profiles
Amir Sufi (Speaker)
Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
http://bfi.uchicago.edu/people/amir-sufi
Amir Sufi is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as an associate editor for the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Sufi's research focuses on finance and macroeconomics. His research has won numerous prizes, including the Brattle Prize for Distinguished Paper from the Journal of Finance and the inaugural Young Researcher Prize from the Review of Financial Studies. Sufi has articles in theAmerican Economic Review, the Journal of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He was also awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011.
His recent research on household debt and the macroeconomy has been profiled in the Economist, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. It has also been presented to policy-makers at the Federal Reserve and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs.
Sufi graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a bachelor's degree in economics 1999. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where we was awarded the Solow Endowment Prize for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2005.
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