James P. Ziliak presented "Restoring Economic Opportunity for 'The People Left Behind': Employment Strategies for Rural America" at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group, on August 7-10, 2018 in Aspen, CO.
James P. Ziliak is Principal Investigator (Craig Gundersen, Co-Investigator, University of Illinois) on a $1.5 million grant, “Understanding Food-Related Hardships among Older Americans,” from the Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Anthony Creane is spending the academic year on sabbatical at Universitat Pompeu Fabra as a Visiting Scholar, an honorary faculty-level appointment at Pompeu Fabra. Universitat Pompeu Fabra/BGSE is ranked 17th Economics Department in the world by IDEAS.
Ana Maria Herrera's paper, "Forecasting Crude Oil Price Volatility" (with Liang Hu and Daniel Pastor), is forthcoming in the International Journal of Forecasting.
Ana María Herrera is spending the academic year as a Visiting Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Visiting Faculty at the Barcelona Graduate School for Economics.
Xiaozhou Ding (Ph.D. student) and Lala Ma's paper "Flood Risk and Salience: New Evidence from the Sunshine State" (with Laura Bakkensen) is forthcoming in the Southern Economic Journal.
Tony Creane presented "Shipping The Good Apples Under Strategic Competition" at the 45th Annual Conference of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics Athens University of Economics and Business and XXXIII Jornadas de Economia Industrial, Universitat Barcelona.
Congratulations to Huiwen Lian and her co-authors (Linde Liang, Douglas Brown, Samuel Hanig, Lance Ferris, & Lisa Keeping) on being awarded an Ig Nobel Prize from Harvard University for their research, “Righting a wrong: Retaliation on a voodoo doll symbolizing an abusive supervisor restores justice,” The Leadership Quarterly, Feb., 2018. The research used voodoo dolls to explore how and why employees retaliate against abusive supervisors. The prize, announced Sept.
Steve Borgatti and Joe Labianca, in collaboration with the College of Medicine and the College of Pharmacy, have been awarded a 2-year grant worth $425,745.
Haipeng "Allan" Chen and coauthors have won the 2018 Naresh K. Malhotra award for the greatest long-term contribution to the Review of Marketing Research.
