John Starkey’s BUS 103-1010 students from Lee Business School excitedly embraced the opportunity to collaborate and raise $2,000 for local non-profit organizations in Nevada. By using their entrepreneurial skills and social media platforms, the class exceeded their goal, reaching a remarkable total of $2,879. The chosen non-profit organizations…

Gregory Moody (Business), the director of UNLV’s cybersecurity program, was interviewed by Fox 5 on the prevention of cyber attacks. Last week we learned hackers gained access to tens of thousands of students’ personal information when they attacked the Clark County School District. That information is coming from hackers, so we still don’t know…

Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) presented the outlook for the Southern Nevada economy to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Oct. 26 at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. The presentation was followed by a Q&A.

Daniel Chi (Finance) presented his research paper, “Information Technology and the Information Content of Financial Markets,” at the 2023 Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. FMA is the world’s premier association on finance research and education. Chi’s paper was selected as a semifinalist for the best paper…

Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) published “Estimating U.S. housing price network connectedness: Evidence from dynamic Elastic Net, Lasso, and ridge vector autoregressive models" in the International Review of Economics and Finance with David Gabauer, Academy of Data Science in Finance, Vienna, Austria and…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) and co-author David Wolf of Kobe University, Japan, recently published an article, "Is it really bridging the gap? Fiber internet's impact on housing values and homebuyer demographics," in The Journal of Regional Science, the pre-eminent journal in regional and urban economics. The paper examines the…

Yong Li (Management, Entrepreneurship, Technology), Lee Business School professor and research director of the Troesh Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, published the paper, "Entrepreneur Weirdness as a Double-Edged Sword," in Personnel Psychology, an "A+" journal on Lee Business School's SARS list. The paper is co-authored with Jun-…

Nicholas Irwin (Economics) was recently interviewed by 8 News Now (CBS-Las Vegas) as part of a news story about the upcoming sports and entertainment events in Las Vegas.

Eda Anlamlier (Marketing & International Business) led a study in the Journal of the Academy for Marketing Science. The study covers ways that companies can boost positive consumer behavior in a new "access-based industry," where consumers pay for temporary access to products and services through companies like Rent the Runway, Netflix,…

Bradley Wimmer (Economics) recently published an infrastructure policy brief with The Lincy Institute titled, "Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment in Nevada." His report explores how Nevada can benefit the most from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment Bill and American Jobs Act's Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program…

Kaiyang Wu (Marketing and International Business) published "Short-Asking with Long-Encouraging (SALE): A simple method to increase purchase quantity", in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, an "A+" journal on Lee Business School's SARS list. This paper is co-authored with Zoe Y. Lu (Tulane University) and Christopher Hsee (…

In a recently published paper in the world's top entrepreneurship journal (Journal of Business Venturing), Hans Rawhouser (Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology) and co-authors draw on the perspectives of social entrepreneurs operating in contexts of persistent and pervasive need in Africa. Rather than concerns about mission drift in…