Scott R. Baker
Scott Ross Baker is an Associate Professor of Finance (without tenure) at the Kellogg School of Management and is a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research is concentrated in empirical finance and macroeconomics and he teaches Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance.
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.
Scott joined the Finance Department at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management in 2014. He was born and raised in San Diego, California and received B.A.’s in Economics and Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.
Research Interests: Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance, Consumption, Uncertainty