Chicago Booth researchers find that investing in real estate located in run-down, urban neighborhoods that border tony areas is wise choice.
Marketing practitioners and researchers will converge on the University of Chicago Booth School of Business’ downtown campus Tuesday, May 6, featuring a range of research that uses the data to generate insights on marketing topics.
The Stigler Center of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is gathering notable banking minds to discuss “30 Years After the Failure of Continental Illinois Bank: Have We Solved Too Big to Fail?”
New research by University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Ayelet Fishbach pinpoints one of the problems with getting kids to eat more healthful foods: Children reject nourishing fare simply because they know it is good for them, and once they know that, they assume the food won't taste good.
During the Great American Recession of the 21st century, more than 8 million people lost their jobs and more than 4 million homes were lost to foreclosure. In the years immediately preceding the recession, Americans doubled their household debt to $14 trillion. According to the new book "House of Debt" (University of Chicago Press, 2014), these events were directly related.
Eric Budish, associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and John J. Shim, a Chicago Booth Ph.D. student, with Peter Cramton of the University of Maryland, have won the 2014 AQR Insight Award for their research on high-frequency trading.
Matthew J. Notowidigdo, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has been awarded, along with his co-authors, Amy Finkelstein of MIT and Erzo F.P. Luttmer of Dartmouth College, the 2014 Hicks-Tinbergen Medal by the European Economic Association.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and its Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Social Enterprise Initiative are pleased to announce the winners of the NVC and the SNVC.
A University of Chicago Booth School of Business study finds assumptions about the decline of newspapers are based on three false premises.
According to University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Christopher K. Hsee, we still have negative feelings about things that approach us — even if they objectively are not threatening.
Richard Thaler, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has been selected as one of three recipients of the 2014 Global Economy Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
New study finds decades-old psychological “sacrificial dilemma” experiments may have outlived their usefulness.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education Program was ranked No. 1 nationally and No. 2 globally by the Financial Times for its Open-Enrollment Programs, and has received awards from the European Foundation for Management Development and CorpU.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and its Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are pleased to announce a three-year, $297k I-Corps Site grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support prototyping and proof-of-concept for promising early-stage ideas.
New research from Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that exceeding a promise isn't viewed any more highly than keeping a promise.
Epley and co-author Juliana Schroder found that participants in the experiments not only underestimated others’ interest in connecting, but also reported positive experiences by both being spoken to and to speaking with a stranger.
When renegotiating a contract in the NFL, timing is of the essence — the player can benefit financially the earlier in the offseason the contract is signed, while the team can benefit by waiting — and can mean a difference of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
New research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business finds that the positive reaction one would have when succeeding is lessened if it doesn't follow the expected course.
A new longitudinal study shows that Israeli and Palestinian campers who formed a close relationship with at least one member from the "enemy" side at camp, and who maintained those relationships once the program was over, retained the strongest feelings of positivity toward the other side
In his paper “Trade Wars and Trade Talk with Data,” Ralph Ossa, associate professor of economics, looks at tariffs that would be levied if there were no fear of retaliation; retaliatory tariffs in a worldwide trade war; and tariffs that are negotiated cooperatively.
Whether it's your favorite pizza that's only available in your hometown, or your need for a daily Facebook fix, when something becomes temporarily unavailable, does your desire for it increase or decrease over time? The answer depends on whether substitutes for those missing things are introduced.
According to research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, when Chrysler closed a quarter of its dealerships as part of its bankruptcy filing in 2009, prices within a sales area went up the least at the dealerships nearest to the closed one.
New research finds that less profitable, rather than less efficient companies were more likely to be acquired. When more profitable companies acquire less profitable companies, the successful sales and management practices of the buying company are spread around, making better use of existing productivity and boosting the profitability of the purchased firm.
Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has been selected as one of three recipients of the 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Literature Award.
Though the collective measure of financial trust is up, driven mainly by more positive attitudes toward banks and the stock market, Americans are concerned about growing income inequality and would like to see improvements in the country’s educational system as a starting point to address that inequality, according to the latest Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index.
Completing tasks and crossing them off the ubiquitous “to-do” list is a great feeling. But what about those nagging tasks we keep putting off? What’s the difference between those jobs that get completed and those that do not? The answer may be our perception of time, according to new research by Yanping Tu, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has expanded its reach and brought its campuses in Chicago, Hong Kong and London closer together through the use of a high-definition video learning facility.
Matthew Gentzkow, Amit Seru and Amir Sufi, all University of Chicago Booth School of Business professors, have been chosen by Finance & Development, the International Monetary Fund’s quarterly magazine, for its Generation Next ranking, which lists 25 economists younger than 45 who are shaping how people think about the global economy.
Michael Weber, assistant professor of Finance and Neubauer Family Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, received two awards from the European Finance Association at its 41st annual meeting in Switzerland.
New research finds that for many goods, the most important factor in pricing is whether the countries use different currencies.
We see art more as a person than an object, according to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. And in some cases, we make distinctions between artworks — say, an exact replica of a piece created by the artist, versus one created by a different artist. Art, in other words, is an extension of the creator, write Professor Daniel M. Bartels of Chicago Booth, and Professor George E. Newman and Rosanna K. Smith, a doctoral student, both of Yale University School of Management.
Jonathan Dingel, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has received the 2014 World Trade Organization Essay Award for Young Economists.
A recent Thomson Reuters report named Chicago Booth as the number one business school in the world in terms of influential thinkers on its faculty. Thomson Reuters compiled the list to answer, "Who are some of the best and brightest scientific minds of our time?" The agency uses 11 years of citation data to find those whose published research had the greatest impact in their field.
Pope Francis I is changing centuries of Church practice by decisively detaching accused prelates from their positions rather than waiting years, or even decades, for determinations of guilt, and University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Luigi Zingales believes he is setting an example that companies across the globe should follow.
The effects of discrimination are long-lasting, both for the aggressor and the persecuted — passed through the years, consciously or not. Previous research has shown a striking historical persistence of anti-Semitic views, and, according to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, areas in which Jewish people historically were persecuted have lower stock market participation today.
In their paper, "Labor Market Fluidity and Economic Performance," the authors trace the long-term decline of fluidity to several factors, including a shift away from younger businesses, a loss of entrepreneurial dynamism, an aging workforce, and policy developments that discourage worker and job reallocation.
Though many consumers look to the price tag when determining quality, they may not get what they paid for, according to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
In "The Motivating-Uncertainty Effect: Uncertainty Increases Resource Investment in the Process of Reward Pursuit," Professors Ayelet Fishbach and Christopher K. Hsee of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Luxi Shen of the University of Hong Kong compared the time, money and effort that people put into wining a certain reward versus an uncertain reward, and found that the uncertain reward was more motivating.
Using loan level data matched to consumer credit records, researchers have been able to determine that a reduction in mortgage payments of as little as $150 a month spurred a reduction in mortgage defaults and an increase in consumer spending (particularly the financing of automobile purchases), while improving household credit ratings.
Five University of Chicago Booth School of Business students have been recognized for their academic achievement and leadership by being named 2015 Siebel Scholars. Lee Ettleman, Ali Khachan, Solomon Lee, Anna Pione and Neha Poddar were among the 83 winners this year.
In 2011, Egyptians found power in numbers in their Tahrir Square protests — leading to the eventual downfall of the ruling regime, and in the near-term cutting off beneficial relationships between the government and favored companies.
In a pair of new papers, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor John R. Birge, along with Ingmar Ritzenhofen and Professor Stefan Spinler of the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany) have quantitatively analyzed the effects of various schemes to support renewable energy generation and, consequently, to reduce carbon emissions and end fossil fuel dependence.
Bank employees are not more dishonest than employees in other industries. However, the business culture in the banking industry implicitly favors dishonest behavior, according to a new economic study.
In many cases, entrepreneurs aren’t corporate misfits, but just the opposite, according to new research from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Through a series of surveys, the researchers determined that people with less time or money to spare are better able to focus on what the purchase might be worth to them.
A new study by University of Chicago Booth School of Business Professor Nicholas Epley and Ph.D. candidate Juliana Schroeder found that when hypothetical employers and professional recruiters listened to or read job candidates' job qualifications, they rated the candidates as more competent, thoughtful and intelligent when they heard the pitch than when they read it.
A new study by University of Chicago Booth School of Business Assistant Professor Elena Belavina, INSEAD Professor of Sustainable Development Karan Girotra and INSEAD Ph.D. candidate Ashish Kabra found that it is possible for cities to increase ridership without spending more money on bikes or docking points—simply by redesigning the network.
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