COLUMN: If you’ve just moved to Carrboro – or don’t routinely follow council meetings – here’s a short synopsis: In 2009, the Carrboro Town Council approved a conceptual master plan to build out a greenway network across Carrboro. chapelboro.com/town-square/vi…

Check it out - new paper by mikella green with @jlcrawford28, Camelia Kuhnen🏳️‍🌈 and Gregory Samanez-Larkin - Multivariate associations between dopamine receptor availability and risky investment decision making across adulthood academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/ar…

Why no one can agree if the economy is good or bad fastcompany.com/90931057/is-th… Check out my op-ed for Fast Company to learn more about how our lived experiences shape our relationship with money.

Research from UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Camelia Kuhnen🏳️‍🌈 suggests our views of the economy differ due to how our brains process information about gains and losses. #finance #business fastcompany.com/90931057/is-th…

This worries me -- there's a big uptick in Americans behind on their credit card and auto loan payments. Many experts point out that household debt-to-income ratio still looks good. But that really misses what's going on for lower income households. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

From scams to stocks, how we make sense of the economy kenan-flagler.unc.edu/news/from-scam…

This could be HUGE: DOT will now offer subsidized loans to build affordable housing near transit. Loans at ~5% (10yr UST rate) vs 9%+ in mkt today. I hope DOT works w/developers to scale this quickly. CC: Conor Sen Matthew Yglesias Diane Yentel Ezra Klein whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

This is the largest clean energy investment announced in the last five years, and likely ever. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/t…

Young researchers in Behavioral Finance - please apply and share - we are very excited to post our call for research proposals for several research grants of 5,000 EUR! More details can be found here: behavioral-finance.de/grant/

🚨Consumer finance researchers🚨 We're submitting a comment on how CFPB's proposed rule on personal financial data rights may curtail researcher access to consumer transaction data. We're urging CFPB to consider permitting anonymized data access for research purposes. 1/2

1/ NY Fed releases new credit market data tmrw We expected *nominal* credit card debt to set a record, spurring breathless headlines Briefing Book w/ Scott Fulford Don't be deceived by the headlines, consumer credit markets are decidedly normal briefingbook.info/p/dont-be-dece…

Last few days to apply for the research associate/pre doc position at Institute for Private Capital. You'll work on lot of exciting data projects with Greg Brown and me. Great opportunity to learn about private capital markets. Apply here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/272422 By: Feb 19, 2024

Submission for the 2024 Research in Behavioral Finance Conference is now open! Don't miss out on the 5th edition of the fabulous RBFC series on Oct 17 & 18 in Amsterdam, with keynotes by Camelia Kuhnen🏳️‍🌈, David Laibson and Kelly Shue.

Our latest American Growth Project insight includes projected 2024 GDP growth rates for 150 microeconomies across the United States. Dive into this commentary to see which microeconomies have moved into our top 10 this year. Read more: kenaninstitute.unc.edu/commentary/ame… American Growth Project

Please join us in Chapel Hill for the second edition of the Conference on Market-Based Solutions for Reducing Wealth Inequality. Dates: April 25-26, 2024. Agenda and registration info here: kenaninstitute.unc.edu/wealthinequali… linkedin.com/posts/kenan-in…

Read this, graduate students.

Excited to see my work with Philip Mulder featured in The New York Times today! What’s going on in homeowners insurance markets and what are the implications for mortgages and house prices? nytimes.com/interactive/20…

What is the meaning of life? Hear 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List answer the question we all are trying to find an answer to. #NobelPrize

My dad was a mechanic & my mom drove a school bus. I won the lottery to attend Yale (BA) and Penn (PhD). The Ivy League made me. But it might have broken America. A profoundly important article by David Brooks. Luckily, he shows us how to fix it: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…