G Liu (Finance) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented an interdisciplinary poster entitled, “Effect of Fear of Missing Out in Cryptocurrencies and Meme Stocks in a University Population” at the 15th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling held in Las Vegas earlier this month. Liu, a graduate student, secured a grant…

Vivek Sah and Shawn McCoy (both Economics), along with their co-author Luis Lopez from University of Illinois, Chicago have had their paper, "Steering Consumers to Lenders in Residential Real Estate Markets" accepted at Real Estate Economics, the top real estate journal with an impact factor of 3.41. The journal is recognized as "A-" in the Lee…

Emir Malikov (Economics), together with his former doctoral advisee, Jingfang Zhang who is currently at the University of Kentucky, co-authored an article, "Off-Balance Sheet Activities and Scope Economies in U.S. Banking," that has been accepted at the Journal of Banking & Finance, an A-level journal on the Lee Business School journal list.…

Giorgio Canarella (Economics) is co-author of a paper, "Topology Identification in Distribution System via Machine Learning Algorithms," that appears in Plos One. This paper contributes to the literature on topology identification (TI) in distribution networks and, in particular, on change detection in switching devices’ status. The lack of…

Yong Li (Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation) and co-author Jing Li (Simon Fraser University) recently won the Case Centre's best case award for the Strategy and General Management category in 2022 for their case, Amazon Goes Global 2020. The case covers Amazon’s global strategy in the last two decades, with a focus on entry timing…

Olivia Cheche (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute), Peter Grema (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute), Blanca Peña (Criminal Justice), and Nicole Thomas (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education) co-wrote a recent Op-Ed titled, "Students, Taxpayers Once Again Robbed by Higher…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (both Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) published "Globalization, Long Memory, and Real Interest Rate Convergence: A Historical Perspective," with Luis A. Gil-Alana (University of Navarra) and Rangan Gupta (University of Pretoria) in Empirical Economics, 2022. This paper investigates…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (both Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) published "The Behavior of Real Interest Rates: New Evidence from a ‘Suprasecular’ Perspective," International Finance 2021 with co-authors, Luis A Gil-Alana, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and Rangan Gupta, University of…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (both Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) published  "Firm Size, Corporate Debt, R&D Activity, and Agency Costs: Exploring Dynamic and Non-linear Effects" in the June issue of The Journal of Economic Asymmetries. This paper empirically investigates firm-specific determinants of…

Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 UNLV teaching awards: Outstanding Teaching by Part-Time Faculty Award Xiaoling Hays - Chinese/World Languages and Cultures, College of Liberal Arts Elizabeth "Hope" Hinchman - School of Nursing Yousif Muradian - Finance, Lee School of Business Hiroko Tadano - Japanese/World Languages and…

Eda Anlamlier (Marketing and International Business) published a book chapter, "Experiential Conspicuous Consumption on Social Media," in the book Experiential Marketing in an Age of Hyper-Connectivity: Navigating the Customer Experience Journey, which was edited by Nadia Pomirleanu and John Schibrowsky (both Marketing and International…

Caren Yap (undergraduate student) has been selected as 1 of 22 students nationwide to become a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow for the Summer of 2022. At UNLV, she is pursuing a double major in international business and business marketing with a double minor in global entrepreneurship and Brookings public policy. As a fellow, she…