Amir Sufi

Amir Sufi studies the broad areas of financial intermediation, corporate finance, and household finance. His current research is focused on two specific areas: the macroeconomic implications of the housing boom and collapse 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 American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His research on housing and the macroeconomy has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and The Economist. He was also awarded a Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2011.

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 (2009).

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"The Consequences of Mortgage Credit Expansion: Evidence from the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis," Quarterly Journal of Economics (2009).

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"The Political Economy of the U.S. Mortgage Default Crisis," American Economic Review (forthcoming).

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"House Prices, Home Equity-Based Borrowing, and the U.S. Household Leverage Crisis," American Economic Review (forthcoming).

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