Steven J. Davis

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William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics

Steven J. Davis studies business dynamics, hiring practices, job loss, the effects of economic uncertainty and other topics. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, senior academic fellow with the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, advisor to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and senior adviser to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

Davis is known for his influential work using longitudinal data on firms and establishments to explore job creation and destruction dynamics and their relationship to economic performance. He is a co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices, and he co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore.

Along with teaching macroeconomics and labor economics in the U.S., he teaches executive MBA courses in macroeconomics for Chicago Booth in London and Hong Kong.

Global Economics & Business