Economics at Northwestern University

53 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at Northwestern University.

Faculty

• Charles Manski, Board of Trustees Professor h-index 81
• Christopher Udry, Robert E. and Emily King Professor h-index 46
  Es on rural economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. His current research examines technological change, risk and financial markets, gender and households, property rights, psychological well-being and economic decision-making and a variety of other aspects of
• Robert Porter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor h-index 29
• Joseph Ferrie, Professor h-index 29
• Benjamin Golub, Professor h-index 21
  Es on social and economic networks, particularly in models of social learning, local public goods, peer effects, and the formation of social capital. A recurring theme is capturing aspects of networks through theory-based summary statistics that can be useful
• Molly Schnell, Assistant Professor h-index 17
  Es on understanding the causes and consequences of provider behavior, specifically in regards to the opioid crisis, and her more recent work has shed light on the economic impact of school shootings. Back to Top
• Garima Sharma, Assistant Professor h-index 17
• W. Walker Hanlon, Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Associate Professor of Economics h-index 16
  Es on understanding how economies evolve over the long run using novel historical data. He is particularly interested in questions related to international trade, technological progress, cities, and the environment. Back to Top
• Diego Känzig, Assistant Professor h-index 14
• Annie Liang, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Es on three themes: (1) the welfare implications of machine learning algorithms, (2) using machine learning to improve economic modeling, and (3) dynamic information acquisition. Back to Top
• Wojciech Olszewski, Professor h-index 9
• Abi Adams, Professor
• Alessandro Pavan, HSBC Research Professor
  Es on dynamic mechanism design, global games, the social value of information, optimal taxation, competing principals, matching design, information aggregation, and platform markets. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the Society for the Advancem
• Asher Wolinsky, Gordon Fulcher Professor
• Bruno Strulovici, Harvey Kapnick Professor of Business Institutions
  Dynamic and collective decision making, comparative statics, time inconsistency, law and economics, and contract theory. He was the recipient of a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Early Career Development award, an
• Chiara Sotis, Assistant Professor of Instruction
• Dean Karlan, Frederic Esser Nemmers Chair in Economics and Finance, KSM
  Es on microeconomic issues of poverty, typically employing experimental methodologies and behavioral economics insights to examine what works, what does not, and why to address social problems. His work spans many geographies and topics, including sustainable
• Eddie Dekel, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor
  Es on decision theory, the foundations of game theory, mechanism design (in particular with evidence) and voting theory. In particular he has looked at alternatives to expected utility models, and modeling commitment, flexibility, and knowledge. He is a Fellow
• Elisa Jácome, Assistant Professor
  Es on domestic policy issues, especially those related to immigration, healthcare, and the criminal justice system. She has written papers studying whether access to mental healthcare can reduce criminal activity, the effect of immigration policies on an indiv
• Eric Auerbach, Assistant Professor
• Eric Schulz, Professor of Instruction
• Federico Bugni, Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
  Lie broadly in econometric theory and its applications, with an emphasis on microeconometrics. His topics of interest include inference in partially identified models, functional data, dynamic games, randomization methods, and covariate-adaptive randomization.
• Frank Limbrock, Associate Professor of Instruction
• Gaston Illanes, Assistant Professor
  In industrial organization and econometrics. His dissertation research dealt with strategic behavior in pension markets. Back to Top
• George-Marios Angeletos, Stanley J. Gradowski Jr. Professor of Behavioral Macroeconomics
• Giorgio Primiceri, Professor
  In macroeconomics and applied time-series econometrics. His work has primarily focused on understanding the causes and propagation mechanisms of macroeconomic fluctuations, the effect of monetary policy on business cycles, and the role of household debt an
• Harry Pei, Assistant Professor
  In Game Theory, Monotone Methods, Political Economy, Law and Economics, and Organizational Economics. Back to Top
• Ian Savage, Professor of Instruction; Associate Department Chair; Director, Transportation and Logistics Program
• Igal Hendel, Ida C. Cook Professor
  In applied microeconomics and industrial organization. Recent work has focused on markets with asymmetric information and the estimation of dynamic consumer behavior. He is on the board of editors of the American Economic Review. Previously, he was a co-ed
• Ivan Canay, Breen Family Professor of Economics; Director, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences Program
• James Hornsten, Professor of Instruction
• Jeffrey Ely, Charles E. and Emma Morrison Professor; Department Chair
• Jeffrey Lewis, Associate Professor of Instruction
  In labor economics and public finance. Back to Top
• Joel Horowitz, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor
• Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor
• Jonas Jin, Assistant Professor of Instruction
• Kiminori Matsuyama, Professor
  Concern international trade, economic growth, and structural transformation, with the special focuses on exploring the mechanisms causing macroeconomic instability and inequality across countries, regions, and households. More recently, he works extensively on
• Kirabo Jackson, Professor of Economics, Abraham Harris Professor of Education and Social Policy
• Kunal Sangani, Assistant Professor
• Lawrence Christiano, Alfred W. Chase Professor
• Lori Beaman, Professor
  Centered on three themes: the role of social networks in the labor market, agricultural technology adoption and women's mobility. She is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Early Career Development grant, and an affiliate of the National Bureau of
• Mar Reguant, Professor
• Marciano Siniscalchi, Professor
  Game theory, decision theory and information economics. His work is especially concerned with developing dynamic models. He also works on economic models of parenting and supervised learning, so as to gain insights into key issues such as the debate about
• Mark Witte, Professor of Instruction; Director of Undergraduate Studies
• Martin Eichenbaum, Charles Moskos Professor
  Es on understanding aggregate economic fluctuations. He is currently studying the causes and consequences of exchange rate fluctuations, as well as the effect of monetary policy on postwar United States business cycles. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Societ
• Matthew Rognlie, Associate Professor; AT&T Research Fellow
  Es on macroeconomics, inequality, and international finance. Back to Top
• Maxim Sinitsyn, Associate Professor of Instruction
  In the area of product pricing. He worked on price promotions, investigating how firms should coordinate promotions of related products. He also studied the effects of firms planning promotions in advance. Recently, Sinitsyn has been examining how differen
• Piotr Dworczak, Associate Professor
• Richard Walker, Associate Professor of Instruction
  In macroeconomics and political economy; and more specifically the role of specialization, information and coordination in determining economic growth. He is also interested in economic models of conflict. He enjoys teaching monetary economics, internation
• Scott Ogawa, Professor of Instruction
  Es on the economics of education and the decisions of students and teachers. He has applied the techniques of experimental economics to ask whether students who pay more for their education put forth more effort. More generally, he is interested in the behavio
• Silvia Vannutelli, Assistant Professor
  Es on core topics in public, political, and labor economics, that pertain to the collection of revenues and the allocation of government resources, the design of social insurance policies, and the role of institutions and political economy considerations in po
• Vivek Bhattacharya, Associate Professor
• William Rogerson, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor; Director, Business Institutions Program
  Industrial organization, antitrust, regulation, telecommunications, cost accounting and defense procurement. At Northwestern he currently serves as Director of the Center for Business Institutions, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Industrial Orga

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.