Pascal Noel

Pascal Noel serves as the Sing Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and holds a Research Associate position at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He joined Chicago Booth's faculty in 2017 after serving as a senior policy advisor at the White House National Economic Council (2009-2011) focusing on housing and financial markets.

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University
• M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics
• B.A. in Economics and Ethics, Politics, and Economics (summa cum laude) from Yale University

Noel's research employs microeconomic administrative data and natural experiment methodologies to analyze household financial decision-making across household finance, public finance, macroeconomics, real estate, labor, and behavioral economics. His work investigates implications for structural economic modeling, public policy design, and macroeconomic evolution, with particular focus on safety net programs, mortgage default triggers, and recession resilience strategies.

His research has received significant recognition:

• TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security
• AQR Top Finance Graduate Award
• David A. Wells Prize for best economics dissertation at Harvard

Media coverage of his work spans the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, and NPR. He teaches Corporation Finance, New Developments in Public Finance, and Research Seminars across multiple academic years. His research activities include maintaining an active lab wiki for scholarly collaboration.