Amir Sufi

Amir Sufi studies the broad areas of financial intermediation, corporate finance, and consumer finance. His current research is focused on two specific areas: the macroeconomic implications of recent dramatic changes in mortgage availability and the effect of information frictions and incentive conflicts on corporate capital structure and investment policy.

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 the Journal of Finance and forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. As a PhD student at MIT, he was awarded the Robert M. Solow Endowment Prize for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research.

Sufi graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a bachelor's degree in economics magna cum laude in 1999. He earned a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. His dissertation was titled "The Role of Banks in Corporate Finance." He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2005.

Outside of academics, Sufi enjoys traveling, running, and spending time with his family. He is an avid sports fan. A Kansas native, he closely follows Jayhawk and Hoya basketball.

Selected Publications

"Information Asymmetry and Financing Arrangements: Evidence from Syndicated Loans," Journal of Finance (2007).

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"Creditor Control Rights and Firm Investment Policy," Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming).

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"Bank Lines of Credit in Corporate Finance: An Empirical Analysis," Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).

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