High levels of inflation have dominated global headlines for a good part of the last year, but what’s the connection between high global inflation and a strong dollar?
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor Camelia Kuhnen is an expert in corporate finance, behavioral finance and neuroeconomics, the application of neuroscience tools and methods to economic research. As many question whether a recession is on the way, she answers some questions about how the most notable consumer confidence surveys differ and whether Americans are prone to economic gloominess.
Attributing greater value to missing earnings estimates than to beating them signals a trend toward short-term demands and rewards. But what if a firm wishes to make costly investments that could yield long-term business resilience?
The coronavirus pandemic has been especially traumatic on our country’s African American working poor. From being disproportionately concentrated in low-wage hospitality and service sector jobs to struggling with caregiving and food insecurity issues due to shuttered daycare facilities and food banks, working-poor African Americans are facing an inequitable share of financial, social and psychological challenges. What can be done to ease the burdens of working-poor African Americans, both during the pandemic and moving forward? In this Kenan Insight, Urban Investment Strategies Center Director and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Jim Johnson invokes a little-known federal program, the Southeast Crescent Regional Commission (SCRC), as part of a strategic response to providing a coherent, place-based development plan.
The COVID-19 financial downturn will have short- and long-term effects on personal and consumer finance, as explored by a panel of Kenan Institute-convened experts during a press briefing held yesterday. The full recording of this briefing—along with a deeper-dive analysis on the specific implications of the downturn on personal retirement income by Kenan Institute Executive Director Greg Brown, is available in this week’s Kenan Insight.
Research indicates that groups are most effective at achieving gender equity goals when men and women advocate together.
...Institute Distinguished Fellow Lubos Pastor Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business and 2022 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow Jacquelyn Pless Fred Kayne (1960) Career...
As part of our 2023 grand challenge, we survey factors such as demographics, health trends, immigration and childcare that are essential to understanding the dynamics now at play regarding the supply of workers in the labor force.
In a new study, researchers examine how the rising economic power of technology and finance firms has contributed to regional income disparities across America.
...the abuse of opioids has reached epidemic proportions, with annual deaths from opioids of over 1 in 10,000 Americans. These staggering rates of addiction, hospitalization and often death has had...
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Associate Director, UNC Tax Center & Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting
Professor of Finance, London Business School; Academic Director, Centre for Corporate Governance; Managing Editor, Review of Finance and 2022 Kenan Institute Distinguished Fellow