UNC-Chapel Hill Economics Professor Anusha Chari will serve on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for a year beginning in June 2024. As a Senior Economist at CEA, Anusha will assist in providing quantitative and qualitative analyses of the state of the economy and economic … Read more
About Us Founded in 2023, our goal is to is to promote, engender, and expand undergraduate involvement with research in economics. While our focus is achieving these goals at UNC, the frontier of knowledge ought to not limited by geography … Read more
Written by Joshua Banner | March 28, 2024 Fall semester 2023 started like most semesters, and Department Chair Dr. Donna Gilleskie was eager to lead a new group of economics majors through ECON 550: Advanced Health Econometrics. In this course, … Read more
Kalina Staub spent a semester in Aix-en-Provence as an undergrad, and has since been a huge proponent of study abroad. Since becoming a professor in 2013, it was a dream of hers to start study abroad programs with an economics focus, which are … Read more
What was your educational background before enrolling in the Ph.D. program in Economics at Carolina? In the year prior to enrolling at UNC, I graduated from Berry College with a major in Economics and minor in Math. What field of … Read more
Written by Kristin Kharrat | April 11, 2024 The Economics Department at UNC Chapel Hill introduced its first Student Advisory Board in Fall 2023, which will serve alongside the undergraduate and graduate alumni on the Advisory Board (EDAB). The addition … Read more
Aidan Buehler is a double major in Economics (BS) and Philosophy (BA), with a minor in Mathematics. He transferred from UNC Charlotte’s School of Arts and Architecture, and is drawn to economic research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Under the guidance … Read more
On May 10-12 the Montreal CIREQ research center will host an econometrics conference honoring Eric Ghysels, the Edward M. Bernstein Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics, Professor of Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North … Read more
The 2023-2024 placement director is Fei Li.
Gabriela Goodman is an Economics (BS) major with minors in Public Policy and Business Administration. During her time at UNC, Gabriela has been working with Dr. Jane Fruehwirth to delve into the determinants of student success in college. This began … Read more