Daniel Chi (Finance) and his co-authors, Manu Gupta (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Shane A. Johnson (Texas A&M University), recently had a paper, “Short-Horizon Incentives and Stock Price Inflation,”  accepted for publication by the Journal of Corporate Finance. This publication is considered to be an "A" journal in…

Peter Grema (Honors College and Brookings Mountain West) recently was selected to present his summer internship research on "The Price of Legal Cannabis and Other Industry Policies" at the Summer 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium earlier this month. Grema's research explores three distinct public policy areas wherein the legal U.S.…

Ember Smith (Economics and Brookings Mountain West) recently was selected to present her summer internship research on "Automation and Artificial Intelligence in Las Vegas" at the Summer 2019 Undergraduate Research Symposium, which took place earlier this month. Smith's research draws on work by the McKinsey Global Institute and the…

Ashley Schobert (Law and Brookings Mountain West) recently wrote a report with Brookings Senior Fellow Richard Reeves titled "Elite or Elitist? Lessons for Colleges from Selective High Schools." In the report, the pair present data that show how selective high schools are racially unrepresentative of the districts they are located in, and…

Won-Yong Oh (Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology) and his co-authors' article, "Transpitality: How Autonomous Driving Technology Will Reshape the Industry Landscape," appeared in the European Business Review, a UK-based leading business magazine. This article shows how autonomous driving technology will disrupt several related industries,…

Donald Jones (Accounting) wrote an article, "Business Entity Organization Form for the Entrepreneur: An Educational Insight," which was published in the August issue of Practical Tax Strategies.

Nicholas B. Irwin (Economics) recently published a paper, "Keeping Up Appearances: Spatial Spillovers and Housing Renovations" in Papers in Regional Science. The paper models the extent of spatial spillovers in housing renovations and estimates the effect previously observed renovations by a neighbor have on a homeowner's likelihood to…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) presented the economic outlook for Nevada on a session, "Western States Economic Forecasts," at the Western Economic Association International conference in San Francisco earlier this month. Presenters were directors of centers for business and economic research and covered Arizona…

Danny Siciliano, Ingrid Zarate, Annie Lu, Claire Stanley, Alex Durham, and Bryan Shaffer (all Accounting) won the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) Case Competition and took home $5,000. This is the third time UNLV has participated in the competition, and the third time a UNLV team has won first place. The Student Case Competition gives…

Mary Blankenship (Chemistry, Economics, and Brookings Mountain West) recently co-authored a brief featured on the Brookings Institution blog, the Brown Center Chalkboard. The piece discusses the shortage of STEM teachers and the wage penalties teachers face in STEM. The piece originally was published June 17. She is an undergraduate…

Stephen M. Miller (Center for Business and Economic Research) published recently “The Micro-Foundations of an Open Economy Money Demand: An Application to the Central and Eastern European Countries,” with Claudia Tiberiu Albulescu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, and Dominique Pépin, University of Poitiers in the …

John Starkey (Business) taught a BUS 103 class during spring semester that raised $5,003 for charity. The money will benefit five organizations chosen by the students The ALS Association - Nevada Chapter JAG Nevada Spread the Word Nevada Critical Care Comics Forget Me Not Animal Sanctuary Students who participated in this semester's fundraising…