Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation featured a post on Will Gerken's article
(co-authored with Stephen Dimmock, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott Weisbenner) entitled "Capital Gains Lock-In and Governance Choices".
The blog post can be found here: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/02/18/capital-gains-lock-in-and-governance-choices/
Gail Hoyt's paper “Teacher Training for PhD Students and new Faculty in Economics” with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick. Work funded with support of the Teagle Foundation through the American Economic Association. Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming 2018
Gail Hoyt's paper “The Role of Teaching and Teacher Training in the Hiring and Promotion of Ph.D. Economists,” with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick. Work funded with support of the Teagle Foundation through the American Economic Association. Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming 2018.
Gail Hoyt and Chris Bollinger's paper “A New Look at Lake Wobegon: Who’s in Your Canoe?” with Tisha Emerson, and Linda English is forthcoming in the Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Review Vol. 108, Issue 5, May 2018 forthcoming.
Felipe Benguria's paper "Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil" (with Jorge Alvarez, Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser) was recently published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
Through March 9, 2018, the Von Allmen School of Accountancy will be accepting applications for undergraduate accounting scholarships. For information regarding the scholarship qualifications and application, click on the following link: http://gattonweb.uky.edu/undergraduates/accscholarships.
The CFA Research Challenge Team won the 10th Annual CFA Society Louisville Research Challenge held on February 7, 2018 against a field of local colleges such as University of Louisville and Indiana. The team consists of Gatton students: Joseph Back, Camden Booker, Tyler Harris and Kevin Short. The team was also assisted by industry mentor Jeff Thomison. The team will next compete at the CFA Americas (winning teams from other CFA chapters in North and South America) in Boston, MA on March 19-20, 2018.
Identifying education as the most important factor affecting Kentucky’s economic future, the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) — the applied economic research branch of the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky — released its 46th Kentucky Annual Economic Report today.
Sean Dennis’s paper (co-authored with Karla Johnstone), titled “A Natural Field Experiment Examining the Joint Role of Audit Partner Leadership and Subordinates' Knowledge in Fraud Brainstorming” was accepted for publication at Accounting, Organizations and Society.
Congratulations to Leo Li, David Rubenstein, Eric Winkler for passing Level I of the CFA exam. This exam is the first step in earning the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) credential, the most respected and recognized investment management designation in the world. This exam has only a 43% pass rate. All three students were awarded scholarships through Gatton to take the exam.
