Chari joined the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University as an assistant professor of managerial economics.
In 1992 he returned to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and then moved back to Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota in the fall of 1994.
[2] His research interests are in banking, fiscal and monetary policy and in issues of economic development.
He has written extensively on banking crises, exchange rate fluctuations and international capital flows.
[2] Dr. Chari is also a fellow of the Econometric Society since 1999 and recipient of the Census Bureau Research Grant since 2005.