Governors across the United States have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing state-level executive actions to address a range of issues provoked by the crisis. Although it is too early to gauge the long-term effects of the pandemic and states’ responses to it, this Kenan Insight provides a preliminary analysis of actions governors have taken thus far, to help inform policymaking going forward. This briefing features CREATE Director and UNC Kenan-Flagler Professor Maryann Feldman, Rethinc. Labs Faculty Director and UNC Kenan-Flagler Professor Eric Ghysels, UNC-Chapel Hill Political Science Professor Christopher Clark and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Deputy Secretary Kody Kinsley.
A panel of experts convened by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School and the Kenan Institute offered a press briefing via webinar on the challenges and options available to both employees and employers as more and more states reopen for business. This press briefing features UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor Paige Ouimet, UNC School of Law Professor Jeffrey Hirsch and UNC Department of Sociology Professor Alexandrea Ravenelle.
The growing use of predictive analytics to analyze manufacturing plant data has increased factory efficiency while re-shaping the employment relationship among both managers and factory floor employees, according to a new study from Eva Labro, Professor of Management Accounting, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; Mark Lang, Professor of Accounting, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School; and Jim Omartian, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
In a preview of the Nov. 22 symposium, Investing in Affordable Housing: Private Market Solutions to the Triangle’s Affordable Housing Shortage, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Associate Professor of Finance Andra Ghent discusses private market solutions to the affordable housing crisis in the Triangle.
Sexual health campaigns are often designed “top-down” by public health experts, failing to engage key populations. Using the power of crowdsourcing to shape a “bottom-up” approach, this note describes 2 creative contributory contests to enhance sexual health campaigns. We provide guidance for designing creative contributory contests to improve HIV and other sexually transmitted disease testing.
Susan St. Ledger, the President of Worldwide Field Operations at Splunk Inc. joined the Kenan Institute for a Dean's Speaker Series talk at the Kenan Center on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Splunk Inc. is a multinational corporation based in San Francisco, California, that produces software for searching, monitoring and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. Prior to Splunk, Ms. St. Ledger held high-level positions with Salesforce and Sun Microsystems.
Factor analysis is a widely used tool to summarize high dimensional panel data via a small dimensional set of latent factors. Applications, particularly in finance, are often focused on observable factors with an economic interpretation. The objective of this paper is to provide a formal test for the question whether the factor spaces of latent and observable (economic) factors are equal.
Drug patents are different. To improve their quality ex ante, regulators can use predictive models. Drug patents provide crucial incentives for developing life-saving medicines, but when improperly granted, they can contribute to delays in competition and limit access.