In some countries, fines change according to income, but so far US cities have been reluctant to try that out. Chicago Booth’s Jean-Pierre Dubé thinks that’s a mistake. He says uniform fines are ...

Violence has been a fact of life for decades in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. A war that erupted in the late 1990s killed more than 5 million Africans in the following decade. Although ...

Many Americans experienced a sense of loneliness in 2020 that they had never felt before when COVID forced everyone to stay home. And never before did they spend more on their pets. The American Pet ...

Discover upcoming alumni events across the globe—from fireside chats to alumni community get-togethers to conferences to virtual discussions with faculty members.

Every graduating class has its own distinctive suite of personal experiences that helps to shape its perspective. For the business school students who graduated this June, for example, COVID was a big ...

*Total tuition for the two-year program is $168,396 and includes up to 2200 units of coursework, of which 2000 units are required for graduation. The full tuition ...

Few people would root for a recession, for obvious reasons. But when one happens, there may be at least one benefit, finds research from Chicago Booth’s Matthew Notowidigdo and his coauthors: life ...

As part of the Affiliate Fellows program at the Stigler Center, fellows will come to Chicago to attend an annual, invite-only, in-person conference aimed at discussing and improving their early ...

Great investors tend to be avid readers, always hunting for some piece of information to give them a financial edge. There are decades if not centuries of examples of pros who have combined something ...

The data-analysis revolution that turned words into analyzable data continues to progress. Now models are turning images, audio, and visual files into data as well. Large language models can capture ...

To appreciate the edge that artificial intelligence can bring to the financial markets, it’s worth understanding how fast the technological landscape has changed for investors. It has been propelled ...

Online shoppers often place two or more orders in quick succession—an initial one, and then a follow-up one when they remember something else they meant to buy. To counter the rising costs this ...