April home sales dipped nearly 17% from a year ago in the Triangle and fell just under 30% in Greensboro. “There was a land rush in the United States,” said economics professor Todd McFall. “People were flush with cash from not spending during the pandemic. There were some increases in income from the pandemic programs…
Congratulations to Economics Associate Professor, Mark Curtis, for being the 2023 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research! The award recognizes a faculty member in the College in the early part of his or her career. The award was established in 1971 and renamed in 1986 in recognition of the generosity of the late…
Very few people in the Wake Forest community realize that Allin Cottrell is an international superstar. Cottrell, who earned a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Edinburgh, joined the department in 1989 after teaching briefly at UNC-Chapel Hill and Elon College. He was…
Sports economicst Todd McFall said the bill “looks like it is designed to scare away commercial entities and athletes who are considering entering into NIL agreements.” “Universities have made it clear that they view NIL agreements as being substitutes to the traditional support athletic departments received from businesses, which is to say that revenues collected…
Winston-Salem Journal Waging economic warfare consists of a variety of measures from implementing sanctions to fomenting labor strikes. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, economic warfare has been the main means for the west to challenge Russia. How effective will these sanctions be at convincing Russia to cease its war? Economics professor Robert Whaples…
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…
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