On December 2, 2020, Darshak Patel was a panelist at the 11th EconTEAching seminar. The livestreamed event was hosted by the Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics (CTaLE) at University College London and University of Warwick. It focused on the important questions of how careers in economics teaching have developed in higher education and what can be done to increase the profile of teaching track careers.
Susan Zhu and fellow contributors recently partnered with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) to better understand how business schools and employers approach leadership development programs and how both parties can be better aligned to improve the leadership development processes and offerings at business schools.
Economics undergraduate student Elena Liu (Mentor: Dr. Yoko Kusunose) received an honorable mention in the social sciences category of the 56th Oswald Research and Creativity Competition for her work, "The Coffee in Your Cup: Reviewing Fair Trade’s Impact on Development."
Christopher Waller, executive vice president and research director at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Federal Reserve governor. The Federal Reserve System comprises the Board of Governors along with 12 independent Reserve banks across the country. Waller will fill a currently unexpired term ending Jan. 31, 2030.
A paper by Will Gerken and Marc Painter '19 entitled, "The Value of Differing Points of View: Evidence from Financial Analysts' Geographic Diversity" was presented at the NBER Conference on Big Data and Securities Markets.
Congratulations to two University of Kentucky Accounting students, Ariel Q. Brent (left), and Geetika Rakhraj, who received Legacy Scholarships from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The two students received the Scholarship Award for Minority Accounting Students for the current academic year.
On October 30, VASOA Ph.D. candidate Valbona Sulcaj presented the paper “Litigation Risk, Financial Reporting Quality, and Critical Audit Matters in the Audit Report: Early U.S. Evidence” at the 2020 PCAOB/TAR Conference on Auditing and Capital Markets. The paper is part of her dissertation work under the guidance of Professors Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli (co-chair), Dave Ziebart (co-chair), and Joseph Waddington.
On November 5 and 6, Darshak Patel was part of a panel session on "Creating Engaging Large-Enrollment Classroom Experiences: Remotely or (again someday) in Person" at the 2020 St. Louis Fed Professors Conference. The panel consisted of Martha Olney (University of California, Berkeley), and Aselia Urmanbetova (Georgia Institute of Technology) and moderated by Gail Heyne Hafer (St. Louis Community College-Meramec).
Allan Chen has been named Associate Editor for the Journal of Consumer Research.
John Garen was named a Distinguished Kentucky Economist at the Kentucky Economics Association 2020 Meeting. Dr. Garen also delivered the KEA keynote address, “The Economics of Organizations as Applied to Schools: Confessions of an Old-Fashioned Economist.”
