This series brings business leaders, policymakers, and academics to address the Chicago community on topics of current interest. Open to public, but require advance registration.
Event Details
Professor Zwick will discuss the motivation for, the likely effects of, and the preliminary evidence from the business tax provisions in the 2017 United States tax reform.
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Deadline: 11/9/2018
Speaker Profiles
Eric Zwick (Speaker)
Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/z/eric-zwick
Eric Zwick is an Associate Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER.
Professor Zwick studies the interaction between public policy and corporate behavior, with a focus on fiscal stimulus, taxation, and housing policy. His research draws insights from finance and behavioral economics while using a variety of methods: new data, natural experiments, theory, and anecdotal exploration. He is particularly interested in the problems that small and medium-sized private firms and new ventures face, from the perspective of owners, investors, managers, and workers. A secondary area of interest concerns the role of bounded rationality and imperfect information in the design of policies that promote behavior change. This work focuses on determinants of habit formation in health and workforce productivity settings.
He earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in business economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in economics and mathematics with high honors from Swarthmore College. Prior to grad school, he worked as a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a web and software developer for several start-ups and non-profits. In college, he captained the golf team and played lead guitar in a very mediocre rock band called Paul and the Bond Squad. After college, he played in a better band called The Horse Latitudes.