Faculty Experts in Finance

Adjunct Professor of Finance

• Corporate finance
• Valuation
• M&A
• IPOs
• Capital markets

Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship

• Emerging markets
• Venture capital
• Private equity
• Family offices
• Economic Development
• Industry and government
• Geopolitics
• Corruption
• ESG
• Africa
• LATAM
• China
• Asia

Leo Melamed Professor of Finance

• Asset management
• Asset valuation
• Futures
• Swaps
• Options

David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago Departments of Economics, Statistics and the Booth School of Business

• Tackling uncertainty when confronting climate change
• Uncertainty in macroeconomics and its pricing impacts
• Investment beliefs as revealed by asset market data
• Uncertainty inside and outside economic models
• Prudent policymaking when knowledge is limited

Myron S. Scholes Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation - Family Office Initiative Director

• Asset pricing
• Portfolio allocation
• Time-series econometrics

Stevens Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Finance

• Financial stability
• Central banks
• Monetary policy
• Financial regulation
• Banks
• Macroeconomics

AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Fama Faculty Fellow

• Investments
• Macro-finance
• Insurance
• Econometrics

Carhart Family Professor of Finance

• Corporate finance
• Behavioral finance

Adjunct Professor of Finance

• Hedge funds
• Arbitrage investment strategies
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate governance

Adjunct Professor of Econometrics and Statistics

• Capital markets and derivatives instruments
• Banking
• Complex reinsurance
• Technology

Singh Family Professor of Finance

• Household finance
• Distressed consumer debt
• Unemployment
• Consumer spending
• Inequality
• Public policy and household behavior
• Behavioral economics

John Mazarakis and Chicago Atlantic Clinical Professor of Real Estate

• Commercial real estate
  

Charles P. McQuaid Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Robert King Steel Faculty Fellow

• Capital markets
• Investment management
• Mutual funds
• Sustainable investing
• Finance and politics
• Central banks
• Liquidity

Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance

• Corporate finance
• Theory of organizations
• Financial intermediation and regulation
• Growth and development

Bruce Lindsay Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, Finance and Public Policy

• Financial intermediation
• Corporate finance
• Consumer finance
• Macroeconomics
• Housing
• Inequality
• Corporate liquidity management
• Revolving credit facilities
• Syndicated loans
• Financial covenant violations
• Corporate investment policy
• Mortgages

Deputy Dean for Faculty and Sherman and Vivian Chao Distinguished Service Professor of Finance

• Stock, bond, and option valuation
• Bubbles and crashes
• Predictability
• Volatility
• Politics and finance
• IPOs

Visiting Professor of Finance

• Student loans
• Household finance
• Corporate finance
• Education
• Financial economics
• Public finance
• Small business employment

Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance

• Corporate governance
• Fintech
• Digital platforms

Joel F. Gemunder Professor of Economics and Finance and Charles E. Merrill Faculty Scholar

• Government and industry
• Taxes