Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth. He is currently taking a leave of absence from the University of Chicago in order to serve at the U.S. Treasury as the Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance and Development. He conducts research on international macroeconomics, finance, and trade and is a co-founder and principal investigator of the Global Capital Allocation Project. He serves as the Co-director of the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative at the Becker Friedman Institute, an Executive Board member of the Initiative for Global Markets at Chicago Booth, a Research Associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics and the International Trade and Investment groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. He is an Associate Editor of The American Economic Review and The Journal of International Economics and was previously an Associate Editor at The Quarterly Journal of Economics. He previously served as the staff economist for international finance on the White House Council of Economic Advisers and has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, at McKinsey and Company, and at the McKinsey Global Institute.

Announcements

March 21, 2023 in Announcements

On Leave

March 18, 2023 | I am on a leave of absence from the University of Chicago in order to serve at the U.S. Treasury as the Deputy Undersecretary for International Finance. To learn more about the position, click here.
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December 23, 2021 in Announcements

OSHA ETS Uses Dingel and Neiman (2020) WFH Estimates

November 5, 2021 | The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor uses our estimates in Dingel and Neiman (Journal of Public Economics, 2020) for its Covid-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). OSHA uses our estimates as “a starting point to determine ……
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June 17, 2021 in Announcements

Piece in the FT’s ‘FDI Intelligence’ Magazine

June 17, 2021 | Antonio Coppola, Matteo Maggiori, Jesse Schreger, and I have a piece in the FT’s ‘FDI Intelligence’ magazine on our work. Check it out here.
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In The News

November 17, 2021 | Financial Times

February 7, 2021 | Financial Times

September 21, 2020 | Bloomberg