University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics presented the fourth annual Commonwealth Supply Chain Innovation Award, sponsored by SAS, to John Lindsey, supply chain manager for R.J. Corman Material Sales in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The presentation ceremony was held during Thursday’s eighth annual Supply Chain Forum, held in the Woodford Reserve Club at Kroger Field.
Dr. Mark Liu, Associate Professor of Finance, has been invited as a guest editor of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal’s special issue on Asian Risk Management.
Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation featured a post on Will Gerken's article (co-authored with Stephen Dimmock, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott Weisbenner) entitled "Capital Gains Lock-In and Governance Choices". The blog post can be found here: https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/02/18/capital-gains-lock-in-and-governance-choices/
Gail Hoyt's paper “Teacher Training for PhD Students and new Faculty in Economics” with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick. Work funded with support of the Teagle Foundation through the American Economic Association. Journal of Economic Education, forthcoming 2018
Gail Hoyt's paper “The Role of Teaching and Teacher Training in the Hiring and Promotion of Ph.D. Economists,” with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick. Work funded with support of the Teagle Foundation through the American Economic Association. Southern Economic Journal, forthcoming 2018.
Gail Hoyt and Chris Bollinger's paper “A New Look at Lake Wobegon: Who’s in Your Canoe?” with Tisha Emerson, and Linda English is forthcoming in the Papers and Proceedings of the American Economic Review Vol. 108, Issue 5, May 2018 forthcoming.
Felipe Benguria's paper "Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil" (with Jorge Alvarez, Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser) was recently published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.
The CFA Research Challenge Team won the 10th Annual CFA Society Louisville Research Challenge held on February 7, 2018 against a field of local colleges such as University of Louisville and Indiana. The team consists of Gatton students: Joseph Back, Camden Booker, Tyler Harris and Kevin Short. The team was also assisted by industry mentor Jeff Thomison. The team will next compete at the CFA Americas (winning teams from other CFA chapters in North and South America) in Boston, MA on March 19-20, 2018.
Sean Dennis’s paper (co-authored with Karla Johnstone), titled “A Natural Field Experiment Examining the Joint Role of Audit Partner Leadership and Subordinates' Knowledge in Fraud Brainstorming” was accepted for publication at Accounting, Organizations and Society.
