Published: Scott R. Baker, Nicholas Bloom, and Steven J. Davis. Scott R. Baker. Ph.D., 2001, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research is concentrated in empirical finance and macroeconomics.
Scott Baker is a professor of law and a professor of economics (by courtesy) at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches law and economics, corporate finance, contracts, torts, property, and intellectual property. "Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty." with Nicholas Bloom, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Steven J. Davis, Jonathan A. Rodden: w19826 His research interests lie at the intersection of law, economics, and game theory.
He is currently engaged in a variety of research projects regarding household financial choices and the measurement of consumption, as well as research regarding the effects of policy uncertainty on financial markets and growth. He tackles a wide range of topics from the optimal production of precedent to the relationship between legal and reputational sanctions for ensuring contractual performance to the impact of legal uncertainty on firm behavior to disclosure in … Kellogg School of Management Department of Finance 2169 Campus Dr, Evanston, IL 60208 s-baker@kellogg.northwestern.edu (415) 244-8274. This column uses three forward-looking uncertainty measures to quantify the enormous increase in economic uncertainty over the past weeks. Scott Ross Baker is an Associate Professor of … Profile. Professor
Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, Stephen Terry 13 April 2020 While assessing the economic impact of COVID-19 is essential, it is challenging due to the extreme speed with which the crisis unfolded. January 2014: Why Has U.S. Policy Uncertainty Risen Since 1960? 2016. Professor Scott Baker is a prolific and widely-respected law and economics scholar. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Financial Economics . Scott R. Baker Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University 2211 Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208 and NBER s-baker@kellogg.northwestern.edu Nicholas Bloom Stanford University Department of Economics 579 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-6072 and NBER nbloom@stanford.edu Steven J. Davis Booth School of Business The University of Chicago 5807 South Woodlawn Avenue Research. Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol 131(4), pages 1593-1636. citation courtesy of .
Corporate Taxes and Retail Prices with Scott Baker, Constantine Yannelis; Segment Reporting and the Market for Corporate Control: Evidence from SFAS 131 with Bright Godigbe, Zilong Zhang; Awards and achievements.
2015 Bradley Graduate Fellowship/Department of Economics Dissertation Fellowship
His research interests lie at the intersection of law, economics, and game theory. Abstract: We create a newspaper-based Equity Market Volatility (EMV) tracker that moves with the VIX and with the realized volatility of returns on the S&P 500.