The Department of Economics is hosting a one-day empirical macroeconomics workshop. The workshop will take place on Friday, March 31, 2023, in person on the campus of Wake Forest University. All sessions will take place in Benson University Center Room 401. See more on the workshop webpage here
Biden claims green-job surge in State of the Union By Rachel Koning Beals | Morningstar Wind and solar jobs tend to offer higher pay than many industries, and the jobs – like those drilling and processing oil and gas, or maintaining rigs – pay competitively without necessarily requiring a college degree. Green jobs tend to be created in…
News from Dr. Tina Marsh Dalton Dr. Tina Marsh Dalton has published two general audience articles. They are in Discourse Magazine, related to the issues discussed in her publication with economics alumna Grace Lyons (’22). The first one is called “Out of the Pandemic Mud” about the strengths of the public and private sector when…
Wake Forest senior and economics major Tal Feldman has been named to the 2023-24 class of Schwarzman Scholars. Scholars selected from around the world will complete a one-year, fully-funded Master’s degree program in Global Affairs at Schwarzman College on the campus of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The program aspires to build a global network…
Promoting sustainable U.S. economic growth and mitigating climate change By Michael Madowitz, Shaun Harrison | Equitable Growth The estimated hundreds of thousands of green jobs created by both the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act are crucial for creating more equitable economic growth. In a recent paper, E. Mark Curtis of Wake Forest and Ioana…
We are sad to announce that Professor Emeritus of Economics Michael Lawlor passed away on Sept. 21 following a long battle with multiple system atrophy (MSA), a rare neurodegenerative disease. Read more here.
Professor Mark Curtis contributed to an article for Business Insider by Madison Hoff “These maps show which parts of the US are already having a green energy jobs boom” “Economist Mark Curtis told Insider that one main result based on the job posting data he and his co-author used in their research is: “that the…
Monday Sept. 12th 3:30 p.m. Kirby B02 Gary Hoover is President of the Southern Economic Association, founding editor of the Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, and Executive Director of the Murphy Institute at Tulane University. His research focuses on the intersection of economics, race, and public policy with interests in policy analysis of income…
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 31, 2022, 5 P.M. IN BROYHILL AUDITORIUM, FARRELL HALL The Office of Personal and Career Development and the Department of Economics will give presentations. Bring your laptops and learn about Handshake for job and internship postings, events and employer information. Understand the value of an ECN/MEC Degree. Get information on Career Services. Learn…
Professor Koleman Strumpf, our Burchfield Presidential Chair of Political Economy, and statistics Professor Harry Crane from Rutgers University wrote a piece for the National Review. “The Cloudy Future of Political Futures” With the government’s decision to shut down PredictIt, Americans will lose a useful and accurate information source. Prediction markets provide forecasts of winners of…
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