Ben Chabot

Professor Chabot's research focuses on banking, financial markets, and the role of institutions on asset prices and financial stability. Professor Chabot currently teaches in the Economics Department at Northwestern University and the Finance Department at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

From 2010-2024, Professor Chabot was an Economist and Senior Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve where he advised on financial stability and FOMC deliberations and led a systemwide team of economists and data scientists responsible for producing Dodd-Frank Stress Test results. While at the Fed, Professor Chabot taught undergraduate and Ph.D. Classes at Northwestern University where he served as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics. Prior to joining the Fed, Professor Chabot was a Visiting Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer in both the Economics and History Departments at Yale (2008-2010) and an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan (2000-2008). Prior to receiving his Ph.D. in Economics, Professor Chabot was an instructor in Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering (1999).