Gatton College Economics alumna Tiffany Ge was promoted to legislative director of the personal office of U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in Washington, D.C. Ge, from Louisville, Kentucky, joined the senator’s office in 2017 as legal counsel and manages an extensive legislative portfolio. Read the full story on UKNow.
Dr. Ken Troske spoke to Kruser from WVLK about the economy and jobs. Listen at omny.fm/shows/newstalk590wvlk/ken-troske
Economics assistant professor Lala Ma's paper, "
Sturgill Endowed Professor of Economics and Executive Director of the Kentucky Research Data Center Chris Bollinger shared his thoughts with The Atlantic: "What the Pandemic Has Done to the Class of 2020."
A paper by David Agrawal is set to be published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Gatton College of Business and Economics students Ben Davison, Jaclyn Fischesser, Luke Schlake, Wyatt Flick, and Caleb Buckman triumphed in the 2021 Econ Games - an annual data competition co-founded by Dr. Abdullah Al-Bahrani (Northern Kentucky University) and Dr. Darshak Patel (University of Kentucky).
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The latest issue of the Economic Journal features Steven Lugauer's most recent publication, "Is Fertility a Leading Economic Indicator?" The article is joint work with Gatton alum Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman, both at the University of Notre Dame.
Felipe Benguria's paper "The Matching and Sorting of Exporting and Importing Firms: Theory and Evidence" has been published by the Journal of International Economics. The paper studies the response of US exporters to the US-Colombia free trade agreement.
In the recently published paper, "Who Publishes in Economic Education? A Bibliographic Analysis of the First 50 Years of the Journal of Economic Education," authors Paul W. Grimes and Franklin G. Mixon, Jr. examined the characteristics of authors who published academic articles in the Journal of Economic Education (JEE) during its first 50 years. They identify economists who were most productive in developing economic education as a specialized field.
