Bob Chirinko
Professor, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bob's research examines business behavior with a focus on capital formation, banking, financial markets, corporate governance and finance, macroeconomics, and tax policy. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1982 and has held faculty positions at Cornell University (1982-1985) and the University of Chicago (1985-1992) and full-time visiting positions at Stanford University (1984-1985), the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1992-1993), and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (1993-1994). Prior to coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago, he was on the faculty of Emory University from 1994-2007, where he was the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Social Sciences. He is currently a professor in the Finance Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies (Munich), and an affiliate and member of the Faculty Advisory Panel for the Government Finance Research Center (UIC).
His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Bank of Japan, the Booth School of Business (University of Chicago), Canadian Department of Finance, the Canadian Embassy, the Dutch National Bank, the East-West Center and The Korea Development Institute, the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the German Bundesbank, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Industry Canada, the Joyce Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation/ Georgia Research Alliance, the Prudential Foundation, and the Upjohn Institute.
He has received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (shared with L. Summers) from the National Tax Association and the James L. Barr Memorial Award in Public Economics and the Vernon Award both from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He was a Houblon-Norman/George Senior Fellow at the Bank of England (2006), a Visiting Professor at the University of Munich (1992), a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (2008), a Visiting Professor (2012, 2015, 2017, 2019) and an honorary professor (2013-2017) at Deakin University, a DAAD Visiting Researcher at Goethe University (2013), a Visiting Professor at the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance (2014-2019, 2022-2024), a Visiting Researcher at the Booth School of Business (2018), and a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan (2020).
Professor, Department of Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bob's research examines business behavior with a focus on capital formation, banking, financial markets, corporate governance and finance, macroeconomics, and tax policy. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1982 and has held faculty positions at Cornell University (1982-1985) and the University of Chicago (1985-1992) and full-time visiting positions at Stanford University (1984-1985), the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1992-1993), and the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (1993-1994). Prior to coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago, he was on the faculty of Emory University from 1994-2007, where he was the Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Social Sciences. He is currently a professor in the Finance Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a research fellow at the Center for Economic Studies (Munich), and an affiliate and member of the Faculty Advisory Panel for the Government Finance Research Center (UIC).
His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Bank of Japan, the Booth School of Business (University of Chicago), Canadian Department of Finance, the Canadian Embassy, the Dutch National Bank, the East-West Center and The Korea Development Institute, the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the German Bundesbank, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Industry Canada, the Joyce Foundation, the Kauffman Foundation/ Georgia Research Alliance, the Prudential Foundation, and the Upjohn Institute.
He has received the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (shared with L. Summers) from the National Tax Association and the James L. Barr Memorial Award in Public Economics and the Vernon Award both from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He was a Houblon-Norman/George Senior Fellow at the Bank of England (2006), a Visiting Professor at the University of Munich (1992), a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute (2008), a Visiting Professor (2012, 2015, 2017, 2019) and an honorary professor (2013-2017) at Deakin University, a DAAD Visiting Researcher at Goethe University (2013), a Visiting Professor at the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance (2014-2019, 2022-2024), a Visiting Researcher at the Booth School of Business (2018), and a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan (2020).