Macro Finance Research Program

Faculty Director: Lars Peter Hansen (@UncertainLars) @UChicago.

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The @MFRProgram, which I lead at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, is currently hiring Research Professionals.

We’re recruiting for two positions: one starting this fall and another starting next July. If you’re interested in joining our research team, please apply here:

https://t.co/WLcgnfICR8

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Exchanging ideas while taking in Chicago’s iconic architecture, our PhD cohort had a wonderful time together Tuesday night on a dinner cruise along the Riverwalk #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Closing out the 2026 MFR Summer Session is Oleg @itskhoki (Harvard) presenting "Exchange Rates and Financial Markets." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Starting our morning session, we are excited to have @guido_lorenzoni (Chicago Booth) presenting "Inflation: An Excess Demand Perspective." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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We’re delighted to have @ProfStefanNagel (UChicago) end the afternoon session with his presentation on, "Long-Run Expectations in Finance and Macroeconomics." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Our final poster presentations include Elies Lucio (Université Paris Dauphine), @ricciardi_a_ec (Ohio State), Neel Shah (Columbia), and Tianping Wu (UBC). #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Exciting to see research by our promising young scholars! Today we have @AllaireNolwenn (Columbia), Shirui "Suri" Chen (UChicago), Chang-Shu Chung (Baruch), Myunghwan Andrew Lee (NYU), and Zijia Liu (INSEAD) #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Next speaker is @profsufi (UChicago) presenting, "Finance and Structural Transformation of the Economy: An Intangible Question." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Kicking off day 3 with Yueran Ma (UChicago) presenting "World at Scale: Facts, Models, and Open Questions." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Closing out today's sessions with @CarolinPflueger (UChicago) presenting, "Bonds, Betas, and Beliefs." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Excited to see some more poster presentations by Gabriel Ruiz Radrigan (UCL), Zhi Quan (Bill) Shu (NYU), Can Soylu (Brown), and Antonia Tsang (Cambridge). #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Today's Young Scholars Poster Session includes @LeweiHe (UChicago), @vicenteajg (MIT), @jsebastianla1 (Princeton), Jiaer Janet Liu (UCLA), and @RikutoOnishi (UT Austin). #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Wrapping up the morning session is Rohan Kekre (UC Berkeley) presenting, "International Asset Pricing in Segmented Markets." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Starting day 2, our Young Scholars had engaging questions for @DuffieDarrell (Stanford) as he presents, "How Could the Fed Achieve a Smaller Balance Sheet?" #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Wrapping up day one of our summer session with @HaraldUhlig (@UChicago) presenting "On Digital Currencies." Stay tuned for day two tomorrow! #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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This afternoon, Professor Zhiguo He (Stanford) presents on "Leverage Dynamics and Their Applications." #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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More Poster Session presentations today by @mpaillacar23 (UCL), Tom Rutter (Stanford), Sadiq Salimi Rad (CMU), Judy Yue (UChicago), and Steven Zheng (Columbia). #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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For our first Young Scholars poster session, we had some amazing presentations by Felipe Leal (UCLA), Seung Hyeong Lee (Northwestern), Francisco M. Cocco (Princeton), and @KenMiyahara (UChicago). #MFRSummerSession #MacroFinance #EconTwitter

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Do we act now or wait? Our faculty director, @UncertainLars (University of Chicago), presents, "Marginal Social Valuation and Robust Policy Assessment." #MFRSummerSession #macrofinance #econtwitter