While in residence at the University of Chicago in the Department of Economics, he was certified as an expert in the fields of Money and Banking (Ph.D), Finance (Ph.D.), and International Economic Relations (A.M.).

His studies at the University of Chicago were funded by a full Hillman Scholarship, augmented by a Sloan Fellowship grant administered by Sloan Fellow and Nobel laureate Gary Becker, famous for his work on the economic analysis of marriage, family, and race. He was also nominated by the Department of Economics for the university-wide Danforth fellowship. His Ph.D. dissertation, "Price Determination in an Overlapping Generations Example Economy with Producible and Nonproducible Capital", was in the field of mathematical economics.