The gathering for grad students on the first Friday of the month, called First Friday Downloads, provides a casual mechanism for disseminating information across graduate students from different cohorts and, sometimes, across students and faculty. It promotes mingling in a … Read more
This Thursday, Oct 3 at 6pm in Gardner 211 Carolina Women in Economics will be hosting a speed-dating event with Professors from the Economics Department. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to get to know your professors while also learning more … Read more
University Day, is a celebration, where the entire UNC community pauses to honor the the founding of the nation’s first public university. This year Carolina celebrates its 226th birthday, on October 12, 2019. This is a day to remember the … Read more
Within the Economics major here at UNC, students have the opportunity to concentrate in the area of financial economics through the Quantitative Financial Economics (QFE) program. The program is designed to train students as financial economists, providing all the quantitative tools … Read more
Niko Perez, will be graduating this May 2020, majoring in Economics and Public Policy. Below Perez describes his experience over the summer as an intern at the Massachusetts Health Connector in Boston as a health policy analyst. “The Massachusetts Health … Read more
And so it begins..a crowded quad means students are back and campus once again full of activity. Summer is over and fall semester is in session. The Economics Department would like to welcome its students. We love you! Enjoy a … Read more
The 2017-2018 placement director is Jon Williams.
the *********************************Press Release********************************* July 2, 2019 Jamey Falkenbury Jamey.Falkenbury@nc.gov FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lt. Governor Forest announces North Carolina Blockchain Initiative Raleigh, N.C. – Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest has announced the formation of the North Carolina Blockchain Initiative to study the … Read more
July 1 marks the beginning of a new fiscal year for Carolina. It also marks a “changing of the guard” for leadership of the Department of Economics: a new chair. Professor Pat Conway led the department for six years and … Read more
Following the example set by the organizers of the Triangle Microeconomics Conference, we launched the Triangle Applied Micro Conference in April 26, 2019. In this first edition of the conference the set of speakers included faculty and advanced graduate students … Read more