A paper co-authored by Haoying Sun and Steve Gilbert (University of Texas, Austin) titled “Retail Price Competition with Product Fit Uncertainty and Assortment Selection” is accepted for publication at Production and Operations Management.
In this paper, Sun and Gilbert study how the equilibrium pricing among competing retailers depends upon assortments when consumers must search for product fit information and are heterogeneous in their shopping behaviors.
Last week, University of Kentucky and Gatton College of Business and Economics students Michael Zhu, Will Smith and Frank Zhang traveled to the University of Georgia to compete in the South East Annual Stock Competition hosted by the Terry School of Business. Their stock pitch, a value-based investment in Dollar Tree, was selected from a pool of approximately 50 submissions to participate in the semi-finals in Athens.
Jim Ziliak, Director of the Center for Poverty Research and Executive Director of the Research Data Center, was recently quoted on a piece in Marketplace on the Urban Institute's analysis of the reach of the social safety net. Listen here.
Ana María Herrera presented “The Effect of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Credit Flows” (with Timothy Bianco, Ph.D. 2018) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Reus, Spain.
Ana María Herrera’s paper, “Oil Price Shocks and U.S. Economic Activity”(with Mohamad B. Karaki and Sandeep Kumar Rangaraju, Ph.D. 2016) is forthcoming in Energy Policy.
Lala Ma's paper, "Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution" (with Spencer Banzhaf and Christopher Timmins) was recently published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Aaron Yelowitz, Ken Troske, and Tim Harris (Ph.D., 2016) wrote an op ed that was published in the Orange Country Register in reference to Auto-IRAs on January 28, 2019. Read here.
Aaron Yelowitz contributed to MedPageToday in reference to Medicaid work requirements. Read here.
David Agrawal was cited in La Vanguardia, considered by many to be the top newspaper in Spain; and in
On Monday, February 11, Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) Director Jenny Minier was a guest on WUKY television. Listen here.
