Emma Richardson came to Chapel Hill in 1997 as a Morehead Scholar from Canada.  She rapidly settled on two areas of specialization:  economics and international studies.   In Gardner Hall that translated into studies in international economics and economic development.  She … Read more

Where can your Economics degree take you?  For two recent graduates, the answer is:  a prestigious master’s degree program at China’s Tsinghua University. Alice Huang, a 2016 graduate and Emily Venturi, a 2018 graduate, have been selected for the 2019 … Read more

Robert Pakpahan came to Carolina in the early 1990s from his native Indonesia.  His government had sponsored him as a doctoral student with the understanding that he would work hard, learn a great deal, and return to Indonesia to assist … Read more

  Peter Blair Henry grew up wanting to play Pac 12 football.  His football scholarship didn’t materialize, but Peter had hedged his bets:  he interviewed for Carolina’s Morehead Scholarship.  He won that competition; then he discovered economics in Chapel Hill … Read more

Anusha Chari, Professor of Economics, is a scholar of the international economy, with specific focus on international capital markets.  She recently received two acknowledgements of her leadership in the economics profession. Last fall she was selected as a research associate … Read more

Leslie Peyton came to Carolina without set plans for the future — and then she met Economics!  She’s now a senior partner in Korn Ferry’s New York City office, and specializes in senior-level and board searches for the investment banking and capital … Read more

Mr. Siddhartha (Sid) Biswas, a current graduate student in Economics at Carolina, has been named the Gallman Graduate Scholar in Economics for 2017-2018. Sid is a third-year student in the Ph.D. program in Economics.  He has taken on a daunting task … Read more

How did you spend your summer vacation?  For six of our rising seniors, summer wasn’t a vacation — it was a time of intensive research into the workings of global financial markets.  The research papers they’ve written are very impressive. … Read more

Professor Eric Ghysels, Bernstein Professor of Economics, was invited to present the inaugural Emil J. Gumbel lecture at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) on 15 September 2017.  He spoke on the subject “Back to the Future: Backtesting Systemic Risk Measures during … Read more

Karlye Dilts-Stedman, a graduate student in the Economics Department, was selected to participate in the 6th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences held from 22 – 26 August 2017 in Lindau, Germany.  Only 400 young economists worldwide were chosen from among all … Read more