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Business and Economics Research Centers at the University of Chicago

Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory
The Center builds on the rich tradition of Chicago Price Theory that emphasizes the fundamental role of markets and incentives in understanding and improving all aspects of modern life.
Center for Decision Research
The Center for Decision Research specializes in understanding individual judgment and decision process.
Center for Population Economics
The Center for Population Economics (CPE) supports research on demographic, epidemiological, and economic processes such as in chronic diseases, mortality, work levels, geographic mobility, intergenerational transition of wealth, and more.
Center for Research in Security Prices
The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) was established at the Chicago GSB more than 40 years ago to create the finest tools for tracking, measuring, and analyzing securities data.
Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging
The Center works to build a rich intellectual environment for the study of aging at the University of Chicago.
Chicago Center of Excellence in Health Promotion Economics
A collaboration with the University of Illinois-Chicago, the Center enhances the understanding and design of health promotion policies.
Chicago Energy Initiative
The Chicago Energy Initiative is an interdisciplinary research program devoted to the study of the economic, environmental and geopolitical impacts of energy use.
Economics Research Center
The Economics Research Center (ERC) was developed at the University of Chicago in 2001 to support basic empirical research in economics at Chicago directed toward policy problems.
The Initiative on Global Markets
The Initiative on Global Markets deals with the massive global movements of capital, products and talent in the modern economy that have fundamentally changed the nature of business in the 21st Century. The Initiative will focus its work on international business, financial markets as well as the role of policies and institutions.
Institute of Professional Accounting
The Institute of Professional Accounting coordinates the accounting activities in the Graduate School of Business.
James M. Kilts Center for Marketing
The center sponsors basic and applied research in marketing as well as innovation in the GSB marketing curriculum.
John M. Olin Program in Law & Economics
The Law School has been the center of teaching and research on the application of the theories and methods of economics to legal questions for over 50 years.
Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Program at the GSB is a vibrant matrix of courses, experiential learning, collaboration, and research centered on new venture formation and development.
Population Research Center
An interdisciplinary research center designed to facilitate high-quality population research conducted by its researchers -- economists, sociologists, and other population scientists.
George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State
The Stigler Center supports research on the effects of political life on economic life and the reciprocal effects of economic life on political life.