Lala Ma presented “Estimating Heterogeneous Preferences to Avoid Flood Risk and Implications for Disaster Exposure” (co-authored with Laura Bakkensen) at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington D.C. on November 20th.
Carlos Lamarche presented “A Panel Quantile Approach to Attrition Bias in Big Data: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” at the 2016 Latin American Econometric Society Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, on November 11th. The paper is co-authored with M. Harding (University of California at Irvine).
Gail Hoyt (with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick )presented “The Role of Teaching and Teacher Training in the Hiring and Promotion of Ph.D. Economists,” presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Economic Association in Washington, DC, November 20, 2016.
Gail Hoyt conducted the workshop “The Interactive and Engaging College Lecture,” for new faculty members and “The Effective Graduate Student Instructor,” workshop conducted for graduate student teaching assistants at San Diego State University on September 23, 2016.
Will Gerken's paper, "Capital gains lock-in and government choices" (with Steve Dimmock, Zoran Ivkovic, and Scott Weisbenner) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Financial Economics.
Alejandro Dellachiesa (with Myint A.P., (Bates ‘14)) paper "Trade Openness and the Changing Water Polluting Intensity Patterns of ‘Dirty’ and ‘Clean’ Industrial Sectors." recently appeared in Ecological Economics.
David Agrawal was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from November 2 to 4.
Citigroup whistleblower Richard Bowen will be on the University of Kentucky campus on Friday (Oct. 28) to share his story with students, faculty and staff at the Gatton College of Business and Economics. Bowen’s presentation is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in the college’s Kincaid Auditorium. Admission is free and members of the community are welcome to attend.
Bowen will discuss his effort to warn Citigroup about the possibility of a financial crisis due to faulty mortgage loans before the market officially crashed in 2008.
