UChicago News

Larry Sjaastad, scholar of international economics, 1934-2012

William Harms — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:12 -0500

Larry Sjaastad, professor emeritus of economics and a leading expert on trade in Latin America, died May 2. A resident of Hyde Park, he was 77.

Sjaastad made fundamental contributions to economics across a wide spectrum of topics including public finance, international economics and exchange rate theory.

“Larry’s teaching and the bonds he made with students have had a huge effect in Latin America,” said Jorge Garcia-Garcia, PhD’75, a senior evaluation...

Four UChicago scholars receive Guggenheim fellowships

Allan Friedman — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:52 -0500

Four UChicago scholars—Alison Bechdel, John H. Cochrane, Adrian Johns, and Don Kulick—have been named 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows. They are among 181 diverse scholars, artists and scientists selected this year in the 88th annual competition for the United States and Canada.

Chosen from a group of almost 3,000 candidates, the recipients have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the...

Chicago Booth’s Raghuram Rajan and Axel Weber appointed to G30

Allan Friedman — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:23 -0500

Raghuram Rajan and Axel Weber, faculty members at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, have been appointed to the Group of Thirty, an international body that examines the impact of financial and economic decisions in the public and private sectors.

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Two Chicago Booth professors win Kauffman Prize for entrepreneurship research

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00 -0500

Erik Hurst and Tobias Moskowitz, professors at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, received the 2012 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research...

Douglas Diamond wins Morgan Stanley-AFA award for financial economics research

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:00 -0500

Douglas W. Diamond, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who studies financial intermediaries, financial crises, and liquidity, has received the 2012 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance.

Diamond, the Merton H. Miller...

Raghuram Rajan receives prestigious Infosys Prize

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:18 -0500

Chicago Booth professor Raghuram Rajan, an expert in banking, corporate finance and economic development, has won the prestigious 2011 Infosys Prize in India for his research on the contribution of financial development to economic growth. He also was cited for his research on the potentially harmful effects of dysfunctional incentives that lead to...

Chicago Booth’s Leuz earns honor from American Accounting Association

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:42 -0500

Christian Leuz, the Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting at Chicago Booth, received the 2011 Deloitte Wildman Medal for excellence in accounting research from the American Accounting Association.

He was honored for his research, “Accounting Convergence and the Potential Adoption of IFRS (International Financial...

Former faculty member Thomas J. Sargent shares Nobel Prize in Economics

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:01 -0500

Thomas J. Sargent, a former University of Chicago faculty member in Economics and a visiting fellow in the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics, was named Monday as a winner of the 2011 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Sargent, the Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University, and...

Chicago Booth’s Ronald Burt, Christopher Yenkey receive awards

Allan Friedman — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:47 -0500

Ronald Burt, the Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, has received the prestigious 2011 George R. Terry Book Award from the Academy of Management for his book ...

Members of UChicago faculty honored for graduate–level teaching

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:43 -0500

Faculty Awards for Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Christine Mehring, Associate Professor in Art History and the College and Director of Graduate Studies for Art History

William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson...