James Ziliak and Christopher Bollinger are the recipients of a new, 3-year, $373,000 National Science Foundation grant that will fund their ongoing research on earnings volatility and inequality.
Brian Murtha has been selected as a winner of the 2018 Outstanding Reviewer Award by the Journal of Marketing editors. He was selected from the journal’s 182-person editorial review board.
Leonce Bargeron’s paper “Why do Firms Disagree with Short Sellers? Managerial Myopia Versus Private Information”, co-authored with Alice Bonaime, has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Kristine Hankins' paper, "Do Firms Hedge During Distress?", co-authored with Heitor Almeida (Illinois, NBER) and Ryan Williams (University of Arizona), won the Best Paper in Risk Management at the European Financial Management Association's 2019 meeting.
University of Kentucky MBA alum and Chief Medical Officer at UK Healthcare, Dr. Phillip Chang recently accepted the Gage Award for Quality on behalf of the approximately 9,000 people of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals that represent UK Healthcare.
Jenny Minier and Alison Davis presented an overview of the economic regions of Kentucky at the Leadership Kentucky orientation in Berea on June 20.
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?
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.
