Center for Regulatory and Industrial Studies

The Center for Regulatory and Industrial Studies (CRIS) was founded within the Department of Economics at UNC’s College of Arts & Sciences in 2018 to support research related to industrial organization and data science. Read more about CRIS.

For the most recent news and updates, follow us on Twitter (@cris_uncecon).

Upcoming Events:

The upcoming annual Triangle Microeconomics Conference (past speakers) is scheduled for April 26/27 of 2024, and information on speakers will be available soon.
The DATA certificate program within the economics department regularly brings industry speakers to campus to speak to majors about applications of data science in economics.
Academic seminar schedule for Industrial Organization is here.
Upcoming Events in UNC Economics Department.

Research News:

In 2023, Alex Marsh, Dihan Zhou, and Hashem Amireh were awarded CRIS collaborative summer fellowships.
New Working Papers:
- Machine Learning Panel Data Regressions with Heavy-tailed Dependent Data: Theory and Application, Andrii Babii, Ryan T. Ball, Eric Ghysels, and Jonas Striaukas
- Price Discrimination in International Airline Markets, Gaurab Aryal, Charles Murry, and Jonathan W. Williams
- A Model of Sequential Crisis Management, Fei Li and Jidong Zhou
- Inventory Management in Markets with Search Frictions, Fei Li, Yangbo Song, and Mofei Zhao
- Financial Incentives and Inpatient Care: Evidence from a Randomized Physician Remuneration Reform, Qing Gong, Li Li, Xuejiao Li, and Xin Zhao
- Are Broad-Based Employee Stock Options Worth It? Evidence from Bunching Around Vesting Days, Qing Gong, Hong Zhang, and Li-An Zhou
- Dynamic Responses to Carbon Pricing in the Electricity Sector, Paige Weber
- “Two Sided Markets with Network Effects”, Gary Biglaiser, Jacques Cremer, and Bruno Jullien
Past news from CRIS is available in our news archive.

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