The University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics and its Von Allmen School of Accountancy have been awarded accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
The accreditation renews the college’s undergraduate, master’s and doctoral business programs for another five years.
AACSB accreditation represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. Fewer than 5 percent of the world's 13,000 business programs have earned this level of accreditation.
Darshak Patel's paper "Evaluating Twitter and its Impact on Student Learning in Principles of Economics Courses," (with Abdullah Albahrani (UK PhD) and Brandon Sherdian (UK PhD)) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Economic Education. It is scheduled to be published in the Fall 2017 issue of the journal.
Darshak Patel's paper “The Impact of Relative Performance Feedback and Scrutiny on Student Performance in Large Enrollment University Classes.” was present by co-author Justin Roush at the Seventh Annual American Economics Association (AEA) Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE) held May 31 – June 2, 2017 in Denver.
Steven Lugauer presented “Fertility is a Leading Economic Indicator” on June 26, 2017 at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) meetings in San Diego, CA.
Carlos Lamarche presented his paper “Common Correlated Effects Estimation of Heterogeneous Dynamic Panel Quantile Regression Models” at the University of San Andres (June 13), Central Bank of Argentina (June 22), and Di Tella University (June 28) in Argentina. The paper is joint work with Matthew Harding (University of California at Irvine) and Hashem Pesaran (University of Southern California).
Carlos Lamarche visited the University of La Plata (UNLP) in Argentina from June 5th to June 30th. In the first two weeks of June, he gave four lectures on “High-Dimensional Methods and Inference: A Hands-On Approach” in the Department of Economics.
Ken Troske's paper "Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis,” (with Christopher Jepsen and Peter Mueser), appeared in the July 2017 volume of Journal of Labor Economics.
Susan Jordan’s article "Bond ETF Arbitrage Strategies and Daily Cash Flow" (co-authored with Jon Fulkerson and Denver Travis, both UK Ph.D. Alums) was published in the Summer 2017 issue of the Journal of Fixed Income.
“It was an incredible experience and an amazing adventure,” Michael Aldridge said. “This trip exceeded all my expectations from an educational and personal level,” echoed Don Wolf.
University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics doctoral student Andrew Jonelis (pictured below) has been selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting this August in Germany. Attendance at the sixth meeting for economic sciences will establish Jonelis’ place as one of the leading economists of the next generation.
