Winter 2020 | Chicago Booth Review

Winter 2020

The downfall (and possible salvation) of expertise

Can experts win back the public’s trust?
Would you trust a machine to pick a vaccine?

Machine learning is being tasked with an increasing number of important decisions. But the answers it generates involve a degree of uncertainty.
In corporate responses to Black Lives Matter, commitment speaks volumes

In the midst of a social movement, it takes more than words to win public opinion.

Debt still matters

When the government borrows, someone—eventually—will have to pay it back.
A daily measure of people’s potential exposure to COVID-19

A pair of indexes provide a daily look at Americans’ movement patterns amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s spread.
Could easier credit speed the adoption of energy efficiency?

For some, increased adoption of beneficial technologies is less about persuasion than access.

Banking regulators operate differently under public scrutiny

A regulatory move toward transparency has broadly changed the behavior of bank monitors as well as outcomes for banks.

By Martin Daks| Oct 01, 2020

Public Policy

How effective were stimulus checks in the US?

Household spending responses were driven largely by access to cash, research finds.

By Áine Doris| Aug 17, 2020

CARES unemployment payments replaced lost wages, and then some

CARES unemployment payments replaced lost wages, and then some — By Áine Doris| Oct 06, 2020

Three-quarters of US workers received more from unemployment insurance under CARES than they did from wages alone when they were working.

Economics

Businesses say their travel expenditures won’t return to pre-COVID-19 levels

Survey results suggest long-term changes to business travel.

By David Altig, Jose Maria Barrero, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, and Nick Parker| Oct 07, 2020

Behavioral Science

What revenge seekers are really after

Is revenge about fairness, or teaching someone else a lesson?

By Martin Daks| Jun 17, 2020