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.
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.
On Friday, February 8, Brian Bratten presented his paper (co-authored with Stephannie Larocque and Teri Yohn), "On the Informativeness of Unexpected Exclusions from Street Earnings" at the University of South Florida.
On January 18, Accounting department faculty Brian Bratten, Monika Causholli, and graduate student Valbona Sulcaj earned a Best Paper Award at the 2019 American Audit Association Auditing Section Midyear Meeting in Nashville for their paper, “Overseeing the External Audit function: Evidence from Recent Audit Committee Activities”. Professor Causholli presented the paper at a plenary session at the conference.
A new paper by Adam Craig, Marisabel Romero, and Anand Kumar, title "Mapping Time: How the Spatial Representation of Time Influences Intertemporal Choices" has been accepted for publication to the Journal of Marketing Research.
A paper coauthored by Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Daniel Levy, Avichai Snir, titled “Price Points and Asymmetric Price Rigidity,” has been accepted for publication to the Journal of Monetary Economics, (equal contribution). Great Job Allan!
