Recently, we received further proof that "the place to go" for social network analysis is the University of Kentucky and its Gatton College of Business and Economics.
David Agrawal presented his paper "Relocation of the Rich: Migration in Response to Tax Rate Changes from Spanish Reforms" at the University of California at Irvine on May 23.
David Agrawal presented his paper "Commuting and Taxes: Theory, Empirics, and Welfare Implications" (with William Hoyt) at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg on June 21
William Hoyt's paper, "The assignment and division of the tax base in a system of hierarchical governments," is forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance.
Jim Ziliak and UKCPR are co-organizing the conference "Deep Poverty in the United States" with the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty and the Urban Institute, June 27-28, 2017, at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.
Jim Ziliak presented "The Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs" June 26, 2017 at the XIII Summer School of Public Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Jim Ziliak presented "Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence" (co-authored with Robert Paul Hartley and Carlos Lamarche) June 23, 2017 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit on Housing, Human Capital, and Inequality.
Leonce Bargeron’s paper, “Financing Investment Spikes in the Years Surrounding World War I” (with David Denis and Kenneth Lehn) has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Financial Economics.
There is one lesson University of Kentucky alumnus A.J. Hochhalter has learned in his career as a Lexington-based film producer and composer that sticks out more than anything else.
"You're never going to do anything great when you're comfortable," Hochhalter said.
That philosophy, which he believes began while he was a UK student, launched his career as a music composer.
Jana Wilhelm, Instructor in the Von Allmen School, received the Best Paper Award for 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Accounting Associations for her Paper with Paul Wilhelm (Sullivan University) "Proposed Multidimensional Fraud Risk Models: Auditing for Dark Tetrad Individuals and Their Opposites in Organizations."
