Department Chair Donna Gilleskie’s interview with retiring Professor Patrick Conway. Pat served the department for 40 years, having joined the economics department in 1983. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1984. Thinking back over your 40 years of service … Read more
Department Chair Donna Gilleskie’s interview with retiring Professor Rita Balaban. Rita served the department 17 years, having joined the economics faculty in 2006. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999 Thinking back over your time as … Read more
Experiences funded through Economics Department Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund The Sadie Collective was officially founded in August 2018 and named after Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander. Sadie Alexander was the first African American to earn her doctoral degree in economics in 1921 from … Read more
The Case Competition conducted by Carolina Economics Club resumed in 2021-22 after a break due to the pandemic. Students were assigned a Case to discuss US Trade Policy on Solar Panel imports from China. Twelve teams were formed each of … Read more
Three teams from UNC participated in the Second Annual FDIC Challenge conducted by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The Challenge involved using three large data sets provided by the FDIC to examine “The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Banking Sector” … Read more
Via our Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund, the Economics Department sponsored the attendance of three UNC Economics majors to the second annual Sadie Conference on February 20-22, 2020 in Washington DC. Attending were Fridah Mbwaya, Victoria Quiett, and Hayle Tyson. We asked the women … Read more
Ashley Hinnant and Dana Paige are both senior Economics majors. They attended the 5th Annual Sadie Conference, which was held in Washington, D.C. from February 16-18, 2023. Ashley reflects on her experience below: “My experience with the Sadie Collective conference … Read more
The Economics Department has enhanced its offerings of professional development and career support for our majors. In addition to our one-credit course “Career Preparation for Economics Majors” taught by Michael Norwood (and infused with leadership training tips from Coach Dean … Read more
Olga Malashenkova, having completed her PhD studies at the Belarusian State University, is currently a Fulbright Visiting Fellow in the Department of Economics at UNC-CH. Here, Olga continues her research about ecosystems of startup development in the world, in the … Read more
What was your educational background before enrolling in the Ph.D. program in Economics at Carolina? I was a Duke Econ M.A. student. Before that, I spent my undergrad at CUFE (Central University of Finance and Economics), Beijing, China. What field … Read more