London Rothman Faculty in Residence

Erik Hurst was the Rothman Faculty in Residence for Autumn Quarter 2025. Hurst is the Roman Family Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and the director of the Becker Friedman Institute. His work lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, labor economics and urban economics. His research has addressed topics such as declining male participation rates, the determinants of U.S. wage growth, the welfare losses to society stemming from gender and racial discrimination, the causes and consequences of urban gentrification, the economics of time use, small business dynamics, life-cycle consumption profiles, the role of housing and mortgage markets in driving macroeconomic conditions, and the choice to invest in human capital. 

Christian Leuz was the Rothman Faculty in Residence for Spring Quarter 2025. Leuz is the Charles F. Pohl Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting and Finance at Chicago Booth. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Leibniz Institute SAFE, EPIC Scholar, a fellow at the European Corporate Governance Institute, Goethe Universität Frankfurt’s Center for Financial Studies. He is a member of the Clark Center on Global Markets European Economic Experts Panel and studies the role of disclosure and transparency in capital markets and other settings.

Steven Neil Kaplan was the Rothman Faculty in Residence for Winter Quarter 2025. Kaplan conducts research on private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, corporate governance, and corporate finance. He has published papers in a number of academic and business journals. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Kaplan is the co-creator of the Kaplan-Schoar PME (Public Market Equivalent) private equity benchmarking approach. A Fortune Magazine article referred to him as “probably the foremost private equity scholar in the galaxy.”

Jean-Pierre Dubé was the Rothman Faculty in Residence for Autumn Quarter 2024. Dubé is the James M. Kilts Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar at Chicago Booth. Professor Dubé is also director of the Kilts Center for Marketing at Booth, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a faculty fellow at the Marketing Science Institute. From 2008–2010, he was a research consultant for the Yahoo! microeconomics research group. He has been working as a research consultant with Amazon since 2018.

Anil Kashyap was the Rothman Faculty in Residence for Autumn Quarter 2023. Kashyap is the Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance at Chicago Booth. He is also an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and a consultant for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. From 2016 to 2022, Kashyap was an external member of the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee.

Raghuram G. Rajan, the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, was the inaugural Rothman Faculty in Residence in Spring Quarter 2023. He’s a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and former chief economist and director of research for the IMF.