Lala Ma presented “Estimating Heterogeneous Preferences to Avoid Flood Risk and the Implications for Disaster Exposure” (co-authored with Laura Bakkensen) at ASSA Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL” on January 6, 2017 with her co-author, Elaine Hill, “Shale Gas Development and Drinking Water Quality” (co-authored with Elaine Hill) which has been accepted for publication in the American Economic Review Paper and Proceedings.
Olga Malkova presented The Effect of Pension Tax Reductions on Labor Supply at the ASSA meetings in Chicago on January 8.
Aaron Yelowitz’s research on work scheduling appeared prominently in a Crain's New York Business commentary on January 9, 2017.
Aaron Yelowitz’s research on citywide minimum wages in Santa Fe and San Francisco appeared in a recent Wall Street Journal commentary on January 2, 2017.
Aaron Yelowitz appeared on WKTY News at 6:30 PM on The CW on December 30, 2016 discussing the financial stability of insurance companies participating in the Affordable Care Act
The Kentucky Blood Center's Big Blue Slam, which is Kentucky's annual competition against Florida, will be coming to the Gatton College of Business and Economics on Monday, January 23rd and Tuesday, January 24th from 10am - 4pm in Gatton's Woodward Events Hall . With over 2300 students along with the faculty and staff, the Gatton College has the ability to make a huge impact on the lives of Kentucky patients with their blood donations.
Brad Jordan, Mark Liu and Soohyung Kim (UK alum who just started at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) have a paper entitled "Corporate Risk-Taking in Dual-Class Firms" that just received the Review of Financial Economics "Best Paper in Corporate Finance" Award at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Finance Association, 2017.
Brad Jordan and Mark Liu have a forthcoming paper with Qun Wu, a UK alum now at the University of Nevada-Reno. The paper is entitled "Organizational Form and Corporate Payout Policy" and is forthcoming at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
