Three of our graduate students received macroeconomics-oriented summer internships this year. Karlye Dilts Stedman will be a research intern in the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund. Her current research at UNC examines spillovers from unconventional monetary policy in … Read more
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
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
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
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
Ms. Ning Fu, a current graduate student in Economics at Carolina, has been named the Gallman Graduate Scholar in Economics for 2015-2016. Robert Gallman was a nationally recognized researcher on American economic history and a professor of Economics at Carolina … Read more
We welcome five new faculty members to the Economics Department this fall. Jane Cooley Fruewirth is an Assistant Professor with specialization in labor economics, the economics of education, and social economics. She has her Ph.D. from Duke University, and … Read more
May 10 was a landmark day for many of UNC’s seniors: they graduated! Of the 3783 undergraduates receiving degrees from Carolina that day, almost 10 percent majored in Economics. The graphic below illustrates the provenance of all of those undergraduates, and … Read more
A note from the Chair: Graduation occurred on Mother’s Day, but Mother Nature sent us rain this year. Jason Kilar, founder/CEO of Hulu, gave a moving commencement address. His own experience had taught him the great importance of perseverance, … Read more