Director of the Becker Friedman Institute of Economics

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Description The Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) is a leading center that brings together the entire University of Chicago economics community to foster novel insights on the world’s most difficult economic problems. A collaboration between the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, the Harris School of Public Policy, and the Law School, BFI brings together more than 200 affiliated economists and scholars to foster frontier research and achieve global impact. The BFI achieves these aims through conferences, workshops, initiatives, public communications, government relations development, an active visiting scholars program that brings nearly 100 scholars to campus per year, a postdoctoral program, and support for more than 40 predoctoral students a year. BFI supports a wide range of initiatives that spur research and policy change around common thematic areas including price theory, labor economics, big data, health economics, and macroeconomics; as well as programs focused on specific geographical areas such as Latin America, China, and India. Qualifications: BFI is headed by a faculty member of the University wh...