The United States is facing a range of challenging policy issues, from trade to inequality to climate change. The good news is that academic economist...

The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI), the Chicago Economics Society (CES), and the Booth Alumni Club of Washington, DC, welcomed Chang-Ta...

When faced with debt across multiple credit cards, do people pay down their balances in a way that makes financial sense? On February 1, BFI hosted Ch...

Traditional economics assumes rational actors. In daily decision-making, however, we all make decisions influenced by our biases and beliefs, whether ...

Chicago Booth Professor Steve Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, discussed modern data science techniques at BFI's latest Becker Brown Bag talk.

What Have We Learned? Brief Recap Of Day One Daniel Diermeier, Provost, University of Chicago Welcome Remarks Liu Jun, Acting Consul General, Chinese ...

Welcome Remarks Bala Srinivasan, Vice President for Global Initiatives and Strategy & Deputy Provost, University of Chicago Opening Remarks Robert J. ...

While China is still in the early stages of its wide-ranging Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the impacts of the varied development projects are alread...

China has experienced enormous health benefits from introducing pollution-control measures in some of its large cities, but there is still more work t...

China’s ambitious development plans around the world have brought heightened attention to its financial systems, both state-owned and a growing shadow...