Harald Uhlig holds the Bruce Allen and Barbara Ritzenthaler Professorship at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. He is a leading expert in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and financial economics with a focus on dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models, Bayesian econometrics, and economic policy analysis. Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota (1990) Diplom in Mathematics, TU Berlin (1985) His research spans business cycles, growth theory, financial crises, and economic policy, particularly analyzing monetary-fiscal interactions, sovereign debt dynamics, and the impact of financial markets on macroeconomic stability. He has pioneered methods in vector autoregressions and numerical solution techniques for economic models. The 15 most recent articles show a focus on cryptocurrency economics, sovereign debt crises in monetary unions, fiscal stimulus effects, and financial health economics. Subfields include DSGE modeling, asset pricing, and policy analysis under uncertainty. Frank P. Ramsey Prize (2005) Fellow of the Econometric Society (2003) Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1989-1990) Fulbright Scholarship (1985-1986) He has advised 21 PhD students across Tilburg University, Humboldt University Berlin, and University of Chicago. Grants include NSF awards for macroeconomic risk analysis and INET funding for research on economic fragility.








