Katelin Gilbertson (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) and Eshaan Vakil (Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently published an op-ed in the Nevada Current titled "Not an L, not a V, not a Nike swoosh: Nevada’s K-shaped recovery" Their piece discusses the difference in economic recovery between white-…

Rajiv Kishore (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) had a paper,"Social Media-Enabled Healthcare: A Conceptual Model of Social Media Affordances, Online Social Support, and Health Behaviors and Outcomes" accepted by the Technological Forecasting & Social Change, an "A" journal on the Australian Business Deans Council journal…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) published the article "How Do Investors Value Corporate Social Responsibility? Market Valuation and the Firm Specific Contexts," in the Journal of Business Research. This study explains when a company's social responsibility creates a market premium (or not) from the investor's point of…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) published “125 Years of Time-Varying Effects of Fiscal Policy on Financial Markets," with Hardick A. Marfatia, Northeastern Illinois University, and Rangan Gupta, University of Pretoria. This paper examines the effect of fiscal policy on financial markets over a pan of 125 years.…

Katelin Gilbertson (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) was awarded the Best Lightning Talk Presentation Award in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for her excellence in research during the fall 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by the office of undergraduate research (OUR). Her research on The…

Mary Blankenship (Economics, Chemistry, Brookings Mountain West, The Liny Institute, Honors), was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award during the fall 2020 Virtual Undergraduate Research Symposium, sponsored by the office of undergraduate research (OUR). This award recognizes one outstanding UNLV undergraduate student…

Emir Malikov (Economics), together with Jingfang Zhang and Valentina Hartarska, both of Auburn University, coauthored an article, "Product and Geographic Market Diversification in U.S. Banking," that has been accepted at the Finance Research Letters. The paper studies whether the market expansion opportunities resulting from deregulation helped…

Kim Nehls (Marketing and International Business) recently published a study in the journal Philanthropy & Education titled "Campus and Community Relationships: The Impact of Student Affairs Advisory Boards." The study used resource dependence theory to examine how advisory boards made contributions in six areas: (1) To provide advice to…

Katelin Gilbertson (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had her OpEd "The Future for ‘Side-hustle’ Economy in Southern Nevada" published in the Nevada Independent. Gilbertson discusses the imminent threat of unemployment or underemployment that gig workers face without financial aid such as the Pandemic Unemployment…

Mary Blankenship (Economics, Chemistry, Brookings Mountain West, Honors) recently was featured in the Global News article "‘Playing with Fire’: How Politicians Can Perpetuate Baseless Conspiracy Theories" where she discusses steps individuals can take to stop the spread of misinformation on Twitter.

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research and Economics) earlier this year published “The Time-series Linkages Between U.S. Fiscal Policy and Asset Prices” in Public Finance Review, along with Ghassen El Montasser, Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Tunis; Rangan Gupta, University of Pretoria; and Jooste Charl, University of…

Anjala Krishen (Marketing), Han-fen Hu (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology), Andrew Spivak (Sociology), and  Olesya Venger (Journalism) recently had their paper, "The Danger of Flavor: E-cigarettes, Social Media, and the Interplay of Generations," accepted by the Journal of Business Research. This interdisciplinary study…