The recipients of the Kenan Investment Management Fellowships for 2017 were announced by the Institute for Private Capital and Center for Excellence in Investment Management in partnership with the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Camelia Kuhnen, Kenan Institute director of research and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School finance professor, speaks to consumer sentiment during the institute's May 3 economic briefing.
The annual Kenan Institute Student Awards honor students who excel in research, leadership and service, recognize those who exhibit outstanding service and commitment, and celebrate those who exemplify Kenan-Flagler’s core values and advance the mission and vision of the institute.
Kenan Institute Chief Economist Gerald Cohen discussed the 517,000 jobs that employers added in January during the institute’s monthly economic briefing Feb. 3 and answered questions from the press on where workers to fill those jobs are coming from.
On January 18-19, 2018, the Frank H. Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise and its affiliated Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will convene a highly curated group of 100 thought leaders to discuss leading-edge research on private business ventures and explore ways to sustain and advance entrepreneurship.
In this virtual fireside chat, Kenan Institute Senior Fellow Mary Moore Hamrick, CEO of Political Quotient Advisors, will explore the political landscape ahead of the historic 2020 U.S. presidential election.
The Kenan Institute is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 Kenan Institute Student Awards.
Following last week’s debate about the overheating economy, Kenan Institute experts return this week for round two – this time focusing on policy. Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown and Chief Economist Gerald Cohen debate the pandemic’s influence on U.S. fiscal policies.
Institute Chief Economist Gerald Cohen examined the effect of rising gasoline prices on overall inflation figures and the Federal Reserve’s probable response during the institute’s monthly economic briefing Sept. 8.
During the institute's monthly press briefing Dec. 8, former institute Executive Director Greg Brown analyzed the “slower slowing” in employment growth and signs that the Federal Reserve should keep its guard up against inflation.
Join leaders from the Kenan Institute and its affiliated centers for an informational meet-and-greet where you can enjoy light bites and drinks while learning more about how to get involved with the institute’s work.
Kenan Institute Research Director Christian Lundblad navigated the cognitive dissonance provided by another strong jobs report when considered alongside more negative indicators during the institute’s latest economic briefing July 8. The virtual event took place at 9 a.m. after the release of the latest monthly employment numbers. Lundblad also answered questions from the audience, including limitations on the Federal Reserve in addressing core consumer price issues, the differences among regional labor markets, and the probability of an actual recession vs. a technical recession occurring this year.
Kenan Institute Executive Director and Institute for Private Capital Research Director Greg Brown spoke with Wall Street Journal Pro columnist Luis Garcia about what he and other industry observers have noted about investors' interest in the smoothness of private equity returns. Among other insights, Brown offered, “Private equity funds don’t like to mark things up and they don’t like to mark them down. So, when the market goes down, they look better than they should. And when the market goes up, they look worse than they should.”
The Private Equity Research Consortium this fall plans to make fund holdings data available for academic research—a development that helps mark the 10-year partnership between data provider Burgiss and the Institute for Private Capital, an affiliate of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Frank H. Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
The U.S. economy added 528,000 jobs in July, an unexpectedly strong number that Kenan Institute Chief Economist Gerald Cohen discussed during the Kenan Institute’s economic briefing Aug. 5. Cohen also answered questions from the media about the shifting balance of power between employers and employees, the labor force shortage and what the news means for North Carolina businesses.
Kenan Institute Executive Director and Institute for Private Capital Research Director Greg Brown gets the last word in this Bloomberg Businessweek article on the ubiquity of private equity.
As states reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic, experts are looking to consumer spending as an indicator of a return to normalcy. But consumers need to both be safe and feel safe for nonessential activities and spending to resume. Kenan Institute Director of Research and UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor Christian Lundblad spoke with WABC 11 News about this phenomenon, and how the institute is tracking it through a new data dashboard.
Following last week’s debate about the overheating economy, Kenan Institute experts return this week for round two – this time focusing on policy. Check out highlights of Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown and Chief Economist Gerald Cohen's debate of the pandemic’s influence on U.S. fiscal policies.
There is growing evidence that many multinational corporations are lowering their tax obligations by engaging in income shifting—moving income from high-tax countries to low-tax countries or tax havens, and shifting deductions from low-tax countries to high-tax countries. By at least one estimate, the result is loss of nearly $100 to $240 billion annually in global tax revenues. In this Kenan Insight, we explore the extent of the problem and what might be done to address it.