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Noting that prosperity is increasingly tied to place and preparation, the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) — the applied economic research branch of the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky — released its 48th Kentucky Annual Economic Report today.


PhD candidate Jenny Wang presented her paper titled, “Man versus Machine: Complex Estimates and Auditor Reliance on Artificial Intelligence” at the Audit Mid-Year Meeting in Houston, Texas. This paper is co-authored with Benjamin Commerford, Sean Dennis (University of Central Florida), and Jennifer Joe (University of Delaware).


Frank Scott’s paper with David Barrus, “Single Bidders and Tacit Collusion in Highway Procurement Auctions” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Industrial Economics.


Noting that prosperity is increasingly tied to place and preparation, the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER)—the applied economic research branch of the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky—released its 48th Kentucky Annual Economic Report today.


Alumni Update: February 2020

 


The Gatton College of Business & Economics at the University of Kentucky presents the Gatton Pro Open House event on Tuesday, March 10th, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. (stop by anytime) in Woodward Hall on campus.


What is the outlook for Kentucky’s economy in 2020? Should investors be confident about how the stock market will perform this year or concerned?

Questions like these and many more will be addressed by a panel of experts Wednesday, Feb. 12, as the University of Kentucky hosts the 31st annual Economic Outlook Conference, at Central Bank Center (formerly the Lexington Convention Center), in downtown Lexington.


Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Gatton Chaired Professor of Management, recently published "Negative Ties and Signed Graphs Research: Stimulating Research on Dissociative Forces in Social Networks" along with Nicholas M. Harrigan and Filip Agneessens. This was the introduction to the special issue of the Journal of Social Networks on negative ties and signed graphs which the three co-edited.


Giuseppe (Joe) Labianca, Gatton Chaired Professor of Management, gave an invited presentation at the 2020 NetSciX conference at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan on January 20 entitled, "Recognizing the Positive and Negative Ties in a Network." The presentation covered joint research conducted with former UK Ph.D. students, Josh Marineau (Assoc.


Brian Bratten has been invited to serve on the editorial board of Contemporary Accounting Research commencing in mid-April of 2020.