Benedict Guttman-Kenney

Economics PhD Candidate & MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Awarded NBER Consumer Finance Dissertation Fellowship.

I'm excited to start as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business in Summer 2024! (announcement tweet)

CV and my papers are listed on my academic research page.

Email: benedict@chicagobooth.edu

My research focuses on household finance topics that are both academically interesting and relevant to inform public policymaking on the topic of consumer financial protection regulation. I group my research into two broad topics: (1) the economics of credit information, and (2) behavioral household finance. Please see my Research Statement for a two page summary of my research and my Teaching Statement for a one page summary of my teaching experiences.

Academic Research Page, Policy Research Page, Presentations Page

 News

The New York Times covers my credit card research: The Semblance of Success in Nudging Consumers to Pay Down Credit Card Debt. This NBER working paper has a Revise & Resubmit from the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Summarized in a new Chicago Booth Review Article and also recently covered in these blogs: (1), (2), (3), (4).

Released a working paper, Consumer Credit Reporting Data, which was commissioned for the Journal of Economic Literature. Please share your feedback!

I recently visited the Universidad de Chile where I presented my research on information sharing in consumer credit markets.

 Background

Before moving to Chicago, I spent six years conducting economic research informing financial regulation at the UK Financial Conduct Authority, Bank of England, and Federal Reserve Bank of New York. I am a graduate of the University of Warwick and University College London. While studying for my PhD, I also completed the MBA at Chicago Booth.

Media coverage includes The New York Times, The Financial Times (1 - weekend lead `big read'), (2 - FT Tech video), (3 - front page), Wall Street Journal, Barron's, BBC, MarketWatch, Mashable, Fast Company, Raconteur, The Telegraph (1) (2), The FinTech Times, VoxEU/CEPR interview

My academic research has been published in leading finance, marketing, and economics journals with summaries in the Chicago Booth Review. For more information see my academic research page, CV, or Google Scholar.