The University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics invites nominations from college alumni and community members for the inaugural Gatton College Teaching Excellence Award.
The award honors Gatton teachers who inspire passion for their discipline, are especially innovative in the classroom, help students think critically and creatively about business problems, and help students engage with the local community.
Dr. Kathleen Vohs, from the University of Minnesota, visited the department on March 10 as part of the ongoing CEDAR speaker series in conjunction with the UK Psychology department. She presented her work examining how children learn to value experiences over objects, a phenomenon well-established in adults. This ground-breaking work seeks to examine the process by which preferences for experiences over physical objects develops.
The Gatton Ambassadors, an organization of outstanding students in University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, will host a special event centering on golf on Monday, April 10, at the University Club of Kentucky, located off of Leestown Roa
Daniel B. Wrenne, CLU, ChFC, CFP®, is the founder of Wrenne Financial Planning, a Lexington KY-based fee-only firm that helps young physicians navigate their journey toward financial independence. Mr. Wrenne is hiring an intern (financial planning assist) (position posted on Wildcat CareerLink). He will be visiting the Finance Society on March 21 (Tuesday) 6pm-7pm in Gatton room 311 to share industry insight, the firm, and position.
We are pleased to announce that Allan Chen and Haoying Sun will be joining the department this summer.
David Hardesty has been named one of the Top 10 reviewers by the Journal of Retailing. Yahoo!
Steven Lugauer's paper (with Horag Choi and Nelson C. Mark) "Precautionary Saving of Chinese and U.S. Households is forthcoming in the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
Steven Lugauer's paper (with Chadwick C. Curtis and Nelson C. Mark) “Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India” is forthcoming in the Journal of Macroeconomics.
David Agrawal and William Hoyt are organizers of a Center for Economic Studies/Institute for Economic Research (CESifo) Venice Summer Institute conference on "Fiscal Competition and Mobility: Theory and Empirics" to be held June 16 - 17 in San Servolo, Venice, Italy.
Steven Lugauer presented “Fertility is a Leading Economic Indicator” at the Eastern Economic Association meetings in New York on February 24.
