The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) is a research center[1] at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in the United States.
[6][7] IGM began its activities in 2007: it co-sponsored (along with the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at Brandeis University) the 2007 U.S. monetary policy conference in Washington, D.C., on March 9, 2007.
[14] The New York Times has cited the IGM polls on raising the minimum wage,[15][better source needed][dead link] the utility to consumers of allowing services such as Uber and Lyft to compete on equal footing with taxi firms,[16] and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
[18] The New York Times praised the IGM polls for providing "an easily digested summary of the insights of mainstream economics into continuing political controversies".
[16] Nobel Memorial Prize laureate Paul Krugman, writing for The New York Times in January 2013, noted that the IGM polls did not focus on areas that are disputed by macroeconomists.