Areas of specialization include microeconomics macroeconomics econometrics economic development environmental economics health economics international economics public finance industrial organization history of economic thought labor economics and financial economics Most graduate classes are sufficiently small so that each student gets individual faculty attention Very active workshops are available for students to work with their major professors on development of their research projects The holdings of the main library are extensive The computing facilities extend access to all types of equipment including workstations laptops available for check-out and personal computers with virtually all econometric software packages currently marketed available for graduate student use There are many opportunities for interaction with related disciplines including environmental economics in conjunction with the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences finance and regulation through the Fuqua School of Business law and economics through the School of Law public policy through the Sanford Institute of Public Policy and statistics through the Statistical Sciences Additional opportunities are available with scholars at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill North Carolina State University and the Research Triangle Institute including the monthly Triangle Econometrics Seminar

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