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CHAPEL HILL — UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Finance Professor Paige Ouimet has been named director of research for the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.
Ouimet, who has been a member of the UNC Kenan-Flagler faculty since 2008 and who also serves as associate dean for the school’s Ph.D. program, officially assumed her new role July 1.
“The Kenan Institute is exceedingly fortunate to welcome Professor Ouimet to our ranks,” said Professor Greg Brown, executive director of the institute. “Her research expertise in labor markets, passion for forwarding our mission and commitment to addressing the most challenging issues currently facing business will significantly advance the institute’s work.”
As part of her new duties, Ouimet will “facilitate connections between the Kenan Institute and the research faculty at UNC Kenan-Flagler,” she said. She will continue to produce research-backed pieces that will appear as Kenan Insights and commentaries at the institute’s website, kenaninstitute.unc.edu.
“I am very fortunate to be joining such a great team at the Kenan Institute,” said Ouimet, who answered a few questions about her new job and her research. “I am so impressed with how talented and passionate the group is about their mission.”
She succeeds UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Christian Lundblad, who became the institute’s research director in July 2016. Lundblad is the Richard “Dick” Levin Distinguished Professor of Finance and senior associate dean for faculty and research.
Ouimet’s research agenda is concentrated at the juncture of finance and labor economics. She is interested in how decisions studied in finance affect employee stakeholders, specifically how those effects are reflected in firm performance and corporate finance decisions.
Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial Economics.
Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Kenan-Flagler, Ouimet worked at the Center for Clean Air Policy — an independent, nonprofit think tank working on climate and air quality policy at the local, U.S., national and international levels.
She received her Ph.D. and MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and her Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College.
The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise develops and promotes innovative, market-based solutions to vital economic issues. With the belief that private enterprise is the cornerstone of a prosperous and free society, the institute fosters the entrepreneurial spirit to stimulate economic prosperity and improve the lives of people in North Carolina, across the country and around the world. Learn more at kenaninstitute.unc.edu.
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