Accomplishments: Department of Finance
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…
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…
Rebecca T. Barber (Financial Planning, Budget, and Analysis) presented a two part invited webinar on Finance for Institutional Research Professionals.
The event was hosted by the Association of Institutional Researchers and had the goal of helping institutional research professionals better understand and use financial data in their…
Zihan Ye (Finance) and her co-authors, Kimberly Cornaggia, John Hund, and Giang Nguyen, recently had their paper, "Opioid Crisis Effects On Municipal Finance," accepted to The Review of Financial Studies. The paper investigates the effects of opioid abuse on municipal finance. Research shows opioid abuse lowers credit ratings, increases…
Daniel Chi (Finance) had his recent research on how language affects R&D investment featured in Harvard Business Review (HBR). In each issue, HBR highlights the findings of three to four notable research papers in its Idea Watch section. This paper, “Is Language an Economic Institution? Evidence from R&D Investment,” was recently…
Angela Chen (Finance) and Justin de Leon (Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction) placed second out of 14 teams in the Sherwin-Williams Marketing Design Competition with the digital marketing plan they created and presented. Chen is a junior in the finance program at the Lee Business School. De Leon is a junior in civil…
Hyun "Grace" Chatfield, Seyhmus Baloglu (both Hospitality), Robert E. Chatfield, and Percy Poon (both Finance) recently published their article "Preferred Stock Issuance in the Restaurant Industry and Financial Distress" in the Journal of Foodservice Business Research.
The purpose of this study is to offer insights into why…
Daniel Chi (Finance) recently had a research paper, “Is Language an Economic Institution? Evidence from R&D Investment,” accepted for publication by the Journal of Corporate Finance, which is considered an “A” journal in finance. The study shows that how a language describes the future affects the speaker’s perception about the timing of…
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…
Chris Utterback (Finance) received the 2017-2018 Partner of the Year Award from the Las Vegas chapter of the International Association of Insurance Professionals for the development of the insurance classes that he teaches at the Lee Business School.
Daniel Chi (Finance) and his co-authors' paper "Why Has the Value of Cash Increased over Time?" was published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. This publication is considered to be an A+ journal in finance.
Additionally, he recently was interviewed by Las Vegas Sun and discussed issues concerning debt…
Daniel Chi (Business) is a participant in a grant awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for approximately $350,000 over a five-year period. Collaborating with him is Guotai Chi and his team at China's Dalian University of Technology. NSFC has designated the endeavor as a "key project." It will develop…