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Scaled-Up Seminar and Networks of Researchers in the Southeast

Scaled-Up Seminar and Networks of Researchers in the Southeast

by Edward Lopez | Feb 21, 2022 | Events, News, Research, The Director's Blog

Last weekend, the Center hosted our 5th annual Scaled-Up Seminar in Asheville. Scaled-Up Seminar gathers economics researchers from within driving distance of WCU to present current research and provide mutual feedback. This year, 27 researchers from 20 different...
Introducing CSFE’s Human Progress Research Initiative, and Calling 21-22 Faculty & Student Affiliates

Introducing CSFE’s Human Progress Research Initiative, and Calling 21-22 Faculty & Student Affiliates

by Edward Lopez | Sep 8, 2021 | Events, Research, The Director's Blog

What counts as economic progress in our region? That question is near and dear to so many, especially as we all continue adapting to pandemic disruptions. So, this year CSFE is launching a year-long research project combining different perspectives from various...
Broadband investment would mean billions to NC, but there’s a holdup: Utility poles

Broadband investment would mean billions to NC, but there’s a holdup: Utility poles

by Edward Lopez | Sep 5, 2021 | News, Research, The Director's Blog

To be included in today’s digital world, all North Carolinians need access to reliable, high-speed broadband. Yet, today nearly 472,000 in our state – primarily in rural communities – remain without broadband access, limiting their options to work, learn, pray,...
Utility Poles: Key to Achieving Full Broadband Access in North Carolina*

Utility Poles: Key to Achieving Full Broadband Access in North Carolina*

by Edward Lopez | Aug 5, 2021 | Research, The Director's Blog

Robert Cooter and Thomas Ulen’s classic textbook, Law & Economics 4th Edition, describes the concept known as the Hold Up Problem. A hold up is a market actor who possesses and exercises market power to interrupt others’ ongoing physical investment...
Our New Annual Report, 2020-21

Our New Annual Report, 2020-21

by Edward Lopez | Jul 21, 2021 | News, Research, The Director's Blog

Check out our new annual report, just released today! In the summer of 2020, as we sat down amidst those uncertain times to hash out plans for the 2020-21 academic year, I wrote the following vision statement for the Center: We produce high-impact research in three...

Do spikes in COVID-19 cases lead to spikes in deaths?

by Edward Lopez | Jul 10, 2020 | News, Research, The Director's Blog

One crucial question is whether spikes in new daily cases are followed by later spikes in hospitalizations and deaths. Many have expressed grave concern about this possibility. Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb told Face the Nation last Sunday, “We’re right back...

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