NBER profile: Amir Sufi.

Amir Sufi is a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER's Programs on Corporate Finance, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, and Monetary Economics. He is also Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Sufi received his bachelor's degree from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1999 and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2005. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked as an Assistant Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Sufi's research focuses on the linkages between finance and the real economy, which he investigates in the context of corporate finance, household finance, and macroeconomics. His corporate finance work looks at the effects of incentive conflicts on contractual design, capital structure, and investment policy. His household finance research investigates the macroeconomic implications of household balance sheet...