Chad Syverson
Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
CHAD SYVERSON is the Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been on the University of Chicago faculty since 2001. His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. He has authored or coauthored dozens of scholarly articles and is the coauthor (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) of intermediate-level textbook, Microeconomics. Syverson is an editor of the Rand Journal of Economics, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has served on multiple National Academies committees. Syverson earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of North Dakota in 1996, one in economics and one in mechanical engineering. After a brief stint working as a mechanical engineer for Unisys Corporation and Loral Defense Systems, he went on to earn a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland in 2001.
CHAD SYVERSON is the Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has been on the University of Chicago faculty since 2001. His research spans several topics, with a particular focus on the interactions of firm structure, market structure, and productivity. He has authored or coauthored dozens of scholarly articles and is the coauthor (with Austan Goolsbee and Steve Levitt) of intermediate-level textbook, Microeconomics. Syverson is an editor of the Rand Journal of Economics, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has served on multiple National Academies committees. Syverson earned two bachelor’s degrees from the University of North Dakota in 1996, one in economics and one in mechanical engineering. After a brief stint working as a mechanical engineer for Unisys Corporation and Loral Defense Systems, he went on to earn a PhD in economics from the University of Maryland in 2001.