UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, in partnership with Darden’s Institute for Business and Society, launched the Global Capitalism Index.
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Global Economies & Markets
Faculty insight on trade, markets, policy, global business, and economic change. This topic connects macroeconomic forces with organizational decisions, examining how leaders navigate uncertainty, regulation, capital flows, geopolitical shifts, and cross-border opportunity while building resilient institutions in markets that are increasingly interdependent.
The United States is on a streak landing more international events than ever. What’s driving the good fortune for sports fans living in the country?
Universities bridge global divides through education and partnerships. Explore how UVA Darden and AIMA foster international dialogue, leadership development, and cross-border collaboration amid geopolitical tensions.
A new working paper from The Anthropic Institute, co-authored by UVA Darden Professor Anton Korinek, presents a framework for assessing the economic consequences of AI between 2026 and 2030. It models three potential paths of AI capabilities into implied paths for GDP, the labor share, wages, labor reallocation and unemployment.
To learn more about short-term Treasury bills and longer-term bonds, the market and impact on consumers, UVA Today reached out to Rodney Sullivan, the executive director of the Mayo Center for Asset Management at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Private assets are becoming more accessible, but so are the risks. Darden Professor Rich Evans says investors need to understand liquidity risk and access private markets through professionally managed portfolios that balance liquid and illiquid investments.
Netflix built its business freeing viewers from cable television. Yet last week, the company streamed Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby, an event long associated with the cable sports network giant ESPN. Why the shift? UVA Today posed that question and others to Anthony Palomba, a streaming expert within the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
During America’s Bicentennial, a Taiwanese university president found inspiration in UVA’s Rotunda. Fifteen years later, a Darden Executive Program alumnus helped carry that vision across the Pacific.
To help interpret the “Fed speak,” Darden Report checked in with Mickey Fortune (MBA ’26), creator of the FOMC Oracle, an AI-powered tool trained on decades of Federal Reserve transcripts, speeches and public remarks. The tool simulates how current and former Fed leaders might respond to today’s economic questions.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is finally here, but as the tournament kicks off, some matches are still struggling to sell out while skyrocketing ticket prices have sparked turmoil among fans. Professor Pnina Feldman shares how her research informs the ticketing dynamics around one of the biggest sporting events in the world.
