Economics

Mark Kurt, assistant professor of economics, spoke with the Associated Press for a July 24 article on North Carolina’s unemployment rate.

Thomas Tiemann, Jefferson Pilot Professor of Economics, was a guest on WUNC radio's "The State of Things" show on July 17.

Cassandra DiRienzo, associate dean and associate professor of economics, and Tina Das, professor of economics, recently had a paper published on global peace and repression.

Senior Grace Foster’s honors thesis was selected as the best paper of the undergraduate sessions at the 2012 Midwest Economics Association annual meeting.

Stephen DeLoach, professor of economics in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had a paper titled “Creating Quality Undergraduate Research Programs in Economics: How, When, Where (And Why)” published in The American Economist.

Katy Rouse, assistant professor of economics in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, recently published a paper titled, "The Impact of High School Leadership on Subsequent Educational Attainment."

The Elon Economics Club will be hosting a presentation Oct. 26 by Richard Kaglic, an economist from the United States Federal Reserve.

When Elon’s economics department began requiring all seniors to complete a written thesis, Greg Lilly, associate professor of economics, noticed an interesting trend. “One of the things we noticed fairly early was that there seemed to be this spread in performances, and it seems to be a spread we can’t get rid of,” he said. Read more about Professor Lilly's research...

Issues in Political Economy, the undergraduate research journal published jointly by the economics departments at Elon University and the University of Mary Washington, recently published its 20th anniversary volume.