William E. Brewer, Jr. (BA, 1973) received the lifetime achievement award from the Bankruptcy Section of the North Carolina Bar Association in November 2014. Attorney Brewer, who also received his law degree from UNC, told us that his Carolina education … Read more

Entrepreneurship can mean lots of different things to lots of different people. When you ask a group of students to name an entrepreneur, they often rattle off the list of usual suspects – Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg – giants of innovation … Read more

Professor David Guilkey briefed us last year in this space about his research evaluating a Gates Foundation Initiative in four emerging economies. Here’s an update from him on his progress. I’ve briefed you in previous newsletters about my work on … Read more

Faculty research continues to be an integral part of Department activity and is critical to our Departmental mission. For this year’s newsletter we asked Professor Jonathan Hill to share his research with our readers. Mid-way through graduate school, I discovered … Read more

After graduating from Carolina in the spring of 2005 I started my Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California at San Diego. I chose UCSD in part based on a conversation I had with Professor Gary Biglaiser.  I had asked … Read more

Keith Bradsher ’86 was your typical overcommitted Economics major – but with a difference.  While many of his classmates were interning with financial firms, Keith wrote for the Daily Tar Heel.  He graduated with highest honors in Economics and went … Read more

The UNC Fed Challenge team took its act on the road last December, and came in second in the nation in the annual inter-university competition in monetary policy design. Each year at UNC, a team of three to five students undertakes research … Read more

Hunter Baehren, a junior Political Science and Economics major, will be an intern with the Council of Economic Advisers in Washington this semester. Last summer he studied the effects of the minimum wage, estate taxes, job programs, and Social Security … Read more

Dear Friends: Chapel Hill is always an active community, but its pulse is speeding these days.  Gardner Hall is bursting at the seams!  Over 4000 new first-year and transfer students came to the Carolina campus this fall,and many of them are … Read more

Matthew Knepper, a 2009 UNC graduate with a degree in Economics, has been named one of the “Top 30 Thinkers under 30 (Years of Age)” by the Pacific Standard Magazine. Knepper is currently a graduate student in Economics at the … Read more