This fall, the UK Finance Society held its first meeting via Zoom. Dr. Wendy Liu, Director of the Wall Street Scholars and faculty advisor to the Finance Society, hosted the one-hour meeting which included five speakers from Koch Equity Development (KED). The panelists included analysts, associates, as well as KED’s director of finance.
On August 16, VASOA PhD candidate Valbona Sulcaj presented the paper "Litigation Risk, Financial Reporting Quality, and Critical Audit Matters in the Audit Report: Early U.S. Evidence." The paper is part of her dissertation work.
On August 15, VASOA PhD candidate Valbona Sulcaj presented the paper "Non-Gaap Earnings and Board Connectedness in a Multiplex Network." The paper is co-authored with Monika Causholli and Nicole T. Jenkins (University of Virginia).
Allan Chen is co-editing a special issue of the Decision Sciences Journal on "Behavioral Pricing in the Platform Economy."
On Friday, August 21, the Gatton Inter-Departmental Research Seminar (GIDRS) was successfully launched. According to organizer Allan Chen, more than 50 faculty members and Ph.D. students attended.
Mike Clark was quoted in the following WTVQ article, "Hospitality jobs slowly coming back, overall rebound slow: State." Clark was also interviewed on Larry Glover Live on WVLK.
January 2020
For many people, there is nothing more satisfying than engaging in meaningful work that has a positive outcome for society.
Economics faculty member Aaron Yelowitz was quoted in the Yahoo! Finance article, "Supreme Court to hear arguments on Obamacare, now crucial amid coronavirus pandemic, right after election."
Mike Clark, economics faculty member and director of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Business and Economic Research, was recently quoted in the Messenger-Inquirer. Read the article, "Unemployment drops in all area counties."
