Stephan F. Gohmann

Director, Center for Free Enterprise
Truist Professor of Free Enterprise
Department of Economics
University of Louisville

Steve Gohmann has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics in the College of Business at the University of Louisville since 1988. He became the BB&T (Truist) Distinguished Professor of Free Enterprise in 2009 and Director of the Center for Free Enterprise in 2015.

His research focuses on entrepreneurship, health economics, and the economics of regulations and beer. He typically examines the influence of regulations on individual decisions. He has published over 60 academic articles. The results of his work have been quoted in various news outlets and blogs including the Economist, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlanta Constitution Journal.