Brent Neiman
Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics
Do Shoppers Have Too Many Choices?
US consumer goods are proliferating rapidly, with implications for consumers and companies.
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Biography
Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. He served from 2022-2025 at the U.S. Treasury as Counselor to the Secretary and as the Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance, where he worked on a broad set of international economic issues, including the bilateral relationship with China, the response to Russia’s war in Ukraine, emerging market sovereign debt, IMF governance and programs, and global financial regulation.
Neiman conducts research on international macroeconomics, finance, and trade. He serves as the co-director of the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative at the Becker Friedman Institute and is a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics and the International Trade and Investment groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Neiman co-founded the Global Capital Allocation Project, previously served as an Executive Board member of the Kent A. Clark Center for Global Markets at Chicago Booth, and was an associate editor of The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Journal of International Economics.
Earlier in his career, Neiman was the staff economist for international finance on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, at McKinsey and Company, and at the McKinsey Global Institute.
In 2014, Neiman was one of the eight economics professors in the United States and Canada to receive the Sloan Research Fellowship, an award given to early-career scientists. In 2009, Neiman was named as one of 22 “Emerging Leaders” by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs. He has been a co-recipient of the Economics in Central Banking Award and the AQR Insight Award, and was awarded a Thouron Fellowship, which funded his graduate studies at Oxford.
Neiman earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Applied Science, both summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. In 2000, he earned a master’s degree in mathematical modeling from Oxford University, and he earned a PhD in economics from Harvard University in 2008. Neiman joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 2008.
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Are We Really More Productive Working from Home?
Data from the pandemic can guide organizations struggling to reimagine the new office.
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How the 1 Percent’s Savings Buried the Middle Class in Debt
Research suggests that when the rich bank, the rest borrow.
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