The Kentucky Society of CPAs (KyCPA) recently recognized outstanding accounting educators at its awards banquet at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, including the University of Kentucky’s Jane Wells. Wells received an Educator Who Made a Difference award from the organization. Wells was nominated by Vickie Richardson of Vickie C. Richardson CPA PSC, in Mt. Sterling. In her nomination, Richardson said she was inspired by Wells' real-world accounting experience, and touched by her thoughtful encouragement.
David Agrawal presented “Commodity Taxation with Honesty, Avoidance and Evasion: Evidence from the United States” at the National Tax Association conference, Baltimore, MD on November 11.
The Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise held a session featuring work by Institute affiliates at the Southern Economic Association conference In Washington, DC on November 21, 2016. Papers presented were:
Frank Scott presented “Single Bidders and Tacit Collusion in Highway Procurement Auctions” (co-authored with David Barrus) at the Southern Economic Association meetings in Washington, D.C. on November 21, 2016.
Darshak Patel presented "Does “Mathiness” Matter? How Student Perceptions Create Barriers to Economics” at Southern Economic Association in Washington, DC on November 20th.
Lala Ma presented “Estimating Heterogeneous Preferences to Avoid Flood Risk and Implications for Disaster Exposure” (co-authored with Laura Bakkensen) at the Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington D.C. on November 20th.
Carlos Lamarche presented “A Panel Quantile Approach to Attrition Bias in Big Data: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment” at the 2016 Latin American Econometric Society Meeting in Medellin, Colombia, on November 11th. The paper is co-authored with M. Harding (University of California at Irvine).
Gail Hoyt (with Sam Allgood and KimMarie McGoldrick )presented “The Role of Teaching and Teacher Training in the Hiring and Promotion of Ph.D. Economists,” presented at the annual meetings of the Southern Economic Association in Washington, DC, November 20, 2016.
Gail Hoyt conducted the workshop “The Interactive and Engaging College Lecture,” for new faculty members and “The Effective Graduate Student Instructor,” workshop conducted for graduate student teaching assistants at San Diego State University on September 23, 2016.
David Agrawal was a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from November 2 to 4.
