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…

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…

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…

The office of undergraduate research (OUR) recently held its Fall 2020 Undergraduate Research Symposium and the College of Sciences brought home several honors, including: The School of Life Sciences earned the Champions of Undergraduate Research Award for its commitment to excellence in research education. The…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller (Economics) published their paper "Does U.K.’s Real GDP Have a Unit Root? Evidence from a Multi-Century Perspective" in Applied Economics with co-authors Rangan Gupta, University of Pretoria, and Tolga Omay, Atilim University. A recent nonlinear unit-root test as well as other linear and nonlinear tests…

Peter Grema (Economics, Real Estate, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute, Honors College) and Kristian Thymianos (Political Science, Brookings Mountain West, The Lincy Institute) recently had their OpEd, "To Our CCSD Educators, Here’s a Note of Appreciation and Support" published in the Las Vegas Sun. They applaud CCSD teachers…

Giorgio Canarella and Stephen M. Miller both (Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) published their paper, "Long-Memory Modeling and Forecasting: Evidence from the U.S. Historical Series of Inflation" in Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics with coauthors Heni Boubaker, Rabat Business School, and Rangan Gupta,…

Eshaan Vakil (Brookings Mountain West and The Lincy Institute) and Katelin Gilbertson (Economics, Brookings Mountain West, and The Lincy Institute) recently co-authored, “Feds Aren’t Protecting You From Tech Giants,” published in the Nevada Current. Their story highlights the need for the Nevada Legislature to step up and follow in the…

Emir Malikov (Economics), together with Ruiqing Miao and Jingfang Zhang, both of Auburn University, coauthored an article, "Distributional and Temporal Heterogeneity in the Climate Change Effects on U.S. Agriculture," that has been accepted at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. The paper provides new…

Ian McDonough (Economics) has been awarded the S.J. Hall Faculty Fellowship. Awarded to tenured professors in the department of economics, the fellowship provides incentive for continuing research productivity and teaching performance. The fellowship is funded in the memory of Sherwood James Hall, a successful lumber entrepreneur who sought to…