Dear Friends: Chapel Hill is always an active community, but its pulse is speeding these days.  The Chancellor and Provost will welcome over 4000 new first-year and transfer students to the Carolina campus at student convocation this fall.  We are expecting … 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

Dear Friends: Chapel Hill is always an active community, but its pulse is speeding these days.  The Chancellor and Provost will welcome over 4000 new first-year and transfer students to the Carolina campus at student convocation this Sunday.  We are expecting … Read more

In June 2014, after over 40 years of service to the Department of Economics, Distinguished Professor John S. Akin retired. His retirement, however, was short lived. Within days of stepping down he came out of retirement to take the position … Read more

Simon Alder joined the faculty this summer as an assistant professor and Kaufman Family Global Fellow.  His main research interests are growth and development, regional economics, trade, and political economy.  In his work on development and infrastructure in India, Simon … Read more

My research is primarily in empirical microeconomics.  While my main research field is industrial organization (IO), public and health economics also figure prominently in my work.  A common theme across my research is that I generally focus on strategic choices … Read more

Hello from Carolina!  These are glorious days to be on campus.   I suspect you remember  fondly this time of year — leaves changing color, Homecoming football game, temperature dropping a bit, and of course the Carolina-blue sky.  There’s a spring … Read more