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.
William Hoyt will present his paper "The Assignment and Division of the Tax Base in a System of Hierarchical Governments at the University of Zurich (March 29th), the University of Basel (April 4th), and the University of Switzerland-Italiano (Lugano) on April 12th. He will present his paper "Differential Mobility and the Choice of Tax Base" at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (April 26th), the CESifo Conference on Public Economics (Munich, April 2th), the University of Mannheim (May 11th), and the "Tax Day" conference at the Max Planck Institute (May 30th, Munich).
Chris Bollinger, Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, addressed the Mortgage Bankers Association on Wednesday, March 1st.
Monika Causholli presented her paper titled "Industry specific vs. task specific auditing expertise: The case of goodwill impairment" co-authored with Giuseppe D'Onza, Silvia Ferramosca, and Giulio Greco at the University of Louisville.
Jon Wuerzburger knew since the age of eight that he wanted to serve in the United States Air Force. But he also aspired to one day become a Wildcat because of family ties back in Kentucky. After serving as an aircraft mechanic and the youngest C-17 flying crew chief in the Air Force, he decided to pursue his higher education goals at the University of Kentucky as a management major in the Gatton College of Business and Economics.
Aaron Garvey, assistant professor of marketing in the Gatton College, is finding new ways that branding and marketing affect consumer behavior. One of his recent research studies reveals that brands of sports equipment can improve human performance through purely psychological means that are unrelated to functional differences in a branded product’s materials, craftsmanship, or design.
Finance and accounting December graduate Omer Tariq and UK interiors graduate student Marissa Wilson won the University of Kentucky Venture Challenge with their idea for i-Remember, a website and app to help connect, communicate and form personal relationships with people who have memory problems. They will share $1,500 in scholarship prize money and will represent UK at the state competition in April.
