Alison Davis (PI, joint appointment with Economics), Jenny Minier (Co-PI), and Michael Clark (Co-PI, Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) received a $500,000 grant for their project “The Importance of Access to Health Care in Rural Economic Development” from the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Additional Co-PIs include Christina Studts and Jennifer Hunter of UK and Thomas Harris of University of Nevada-Reno.
Felipe Benguria's paper (with Alan M. Taylor,) "After the Panic: Are Financial Crises Demand or Supply Shocks?
In today’s data-driven world, business success demands leveraging and harnessing data to tell compelling stories.
The Gatton College of Business and Economics officially welcomes the 2019/20 One Year MBA cohort to the University of Kentucky. The collective class brings a diverse set of personal and professional experiences along with a high achievement of academic excellence. Some highlights of the full class profile include:
Ph.D. student Evisa Bogdani presented the paper "The Role of Assurance in Equity Crowdfunding" at the International Symposium on Audit Research (ISAR) Conference in Boston, MA. The paper is co-authored with Monika Causholli and W. Robert Knechel from the University of Florida.
A team of researchers from Gatton's department of Marketing and Supply Chain, including Dan Sheehan, David Hardesty, Alex Zeigler and Allan Chen, has new research accepted for publication in the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.
In May 2019, during the 30th annual Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) conference, Haoying Sun was selected as one of the “Best Reviewers” for the Production and Operations Management Journal.
Monika Causholli recently presented the paper titled “The Role of Assurance in Equity Crowdfunding” at Catholic University Leuven, Belgium. The paper is co-authored with Evisa Bogdani (Gatton Ph.D. student) and W. Robert Knechel from the University of Florida.
This month, Simon goes behind the scenes at UK's 2019 graduation, and introduces a number of our graduating seniors, who talk about their plans for the future, the amazing jobs they’re starting, and how Gatton has prepared them for the next steps in their careers.
Audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP has named University of Kentucky professor Jeff Payne, KPMG Professor in the Von Allmen School of Accountancy in UK’s Gatton College of Business and Economics, as the 2019 KPMG James Marwick Professor-In-Residence.
Payne believes accounting students should understand the opportunities that technology provides in improving financial statement audits, but also importantly, the new risks that are created by their use.
