finance

Quenching Curiosities

July 24, 2024

Meet three Carolina researchers studying beverages, from beer to soda, to improve human health and sustainability for all.

RUNC: Yunzhi Hu

January 31, 2024

Yunzhi Hu studies how banks create and solve problems.

A Slow Burn

August 28, 2023

Ric Colacito’s research suggests that, in the worst-case scenario, rising temperatures could reduce U.S. economic growth by up to one-third over the next century.

RUNC: Celine Fei

February 8, 2023

Celine Fei uses big data to help small businesses.

Paige Ouimet

August 18, 2021

Paige Ouimet is a professor of finance in the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. Through the lens of societal challenges like income inequality, gender diversity, and the opioid epidemic, she studies how businesses impact society and how society impacts businesses.

Taking the Economy’s Temperature

March 16, 2021

Millions of people are unemployed, many industries are struggling, and some businesses will never open again. Will we recover? UNC economists and financial analysts remain cautiously optimistic.

Growth from the Ground Up

April 18, 2017

A Robeson County tortilla manufacturer is ready to increase his production from 25,000 pounds of tortillas a week to 120,000 pounds. UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA student Ben Holmes is helping him do just that — through NCGrowth, an affiliate of the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise.

Money and the Mind

June 2, 2016

A meld of finance and neuroscience helps UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor Camelia Kuhnen better understand the underpinnings of growing wealth inequality.