Stories From Oct 2018
Boys to Lead Grant on Insurance as a Tool for Food Safety & Risk Management
A new initiative lead by ARE faculty will explore the use of insurance as a tool for food safety risk management.
Economic Perspective: The Emerging Financial Battlefield
Technology advancements are pushing the financial fields in new and bold directions. As FinTech companies seek to innovate, can they outlast the established companies as they adjust?
You Decide: How Will the “New NAFTA” Impact North Carolina?
As the dust settles from the new trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, Mike Walden analyzes the potential impacts on North Carolina businesses.
Student Spotlight: Hannah Stutts
Hannah Stutts is a senior in Agricultural Business Management who already has experience managing her own agritourism business in Youngsville, NC. We asked Hannah to tell us about herself and share some of her secrets to success.
Economic Perspective: Good News for Low-Wage Workers
A new study suggests that the tightest part of today's labor market rests in the fields for low-wage jobs. What does this mean for the workers in those positions?
Economic Perspective: Impacts of Rising Interest Rates
With recent talk of rising interest rates, what impact does high or low interest rates have on our economy?
Industrial Hemp Short-Course to be Offered in May
North Carolina State University will offer its first industrial hemp course in May 2019. The course is called, “Business and Law of Industrial Hemp” and will be a short, intensive 3 week course offered during Maymester.
You Decide: Why Do We Take Risks?
Every day we take risks as we go about our lives. How does the tradeoff of risk and reward work in the economy and how do we manage those risks?
Economic Perspective: A Decade After the Crash
NC State University economist Mike Walden gives a quick look at the housing market a decade after the Great Recession.
Collective Management of Shared Water Resource is Easier Said than Done
"History shows how daunting it is to get a group of people to agree on how to manage a common-pool resource like groundwater," says CEnREP affiliate Eric Edwards, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at NC State.