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Campus News |

UNLV's School of Public Policy and Leadership offers courses in data visualization that are helping to create a workforce pipeline.

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Campus News |

A collection of news highlights featuring students and faculty.

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People |

From the desert to the mountains to the market, Honors College student Allister Dias explores Morocco as part of Lee Business School's Global Entrepreneurship Experience.

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UNLV History |

The former student body president and longtime donor passes away, 60 years after UNLV's first commencement. 

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A roundup of the top news stories featuring UNLV students and faculty.

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As the nation's most-watched sports entertainment event rolls into town, UNLV researchers are available to provide expertise.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation Thursday that will allow Nevada to temporarily drop a ban on all but cage-free eggs in the state, an effort that was fast-tracked through the Nevada Legislature to address rising egg prices.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip have posted five consecutive months of year-over-year declines in gaming revenue. Gambling parlors in downtown Las Vegas and along the Boulder Strip have reported decreases in three of the past four months of available data.

Las Vegas Review Journal

President Donald Trump vowed to work with Congress to eliminate taxes on tipped income during a Las Vegas rally Saturday — a campaign promise he made in the same city seven months before.

Nevada Business

A new year feels like a change, finishing one chapter and starting the next. Ordinarily there’s a narrative that pulls everyone along, because most situations, events and circumstances don’t change overnight. This time the change feels momentous. Individuals and industries want to predict what’s going to be familiar, and what’s going to be completely changed.

Travel Weekly

Uncertainty about 2025 hovers over the Las Vegas hospitality and gaming sectors after what in many respects was a robust 2024.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Joseph Dutra remembers the sticker shock he saw for the price of cocoa beans. As the manufacturer of Kimmie Candy in Reno, Dutra’s business purchases chocolate ingredients one year in advance. Cocoa beans from Africa – also feeling the effects of inflation – cost roughly $3,000 per metric ton in 2023. In April, the market was up to $12,000, before more recently settling around $7,000.

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Recent Business and Economic Research Accomplishments

Stephen Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) had his paper, "Does Debt  Management Matter for  REIT Returns?", with co-authors Zhilan Feng, Clarkson University, and Dogan Tirtiroglu, Ryerson University appear as the lead article in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, January 2025. Asset and debt…
Stephen M. Miller (Business; Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella, formerly UNLV, along with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl and Mohammad Ghasemi Doudkanlou published an academic paper, "On the speed of adjustment (SOA) toward the target financial leverage ratios and its determinants: Evidence from the capital structure of the…
Stephen M. Miller (Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) and Yevgeniy Teryoshin (Economics) had a paper published by Economics Letters titled "Income Inequality and Monetary Policy Regimes.” This paper reconsiders the possible effects of monetary policy on income inequality to determine whether monetary policy can indirectly…
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.
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…
Andrew Woods, Stephen Miller, Jinju Lee, graduate student John Magee, and graduate student Zahra Moradpour (all Center for Business and Economic Research) recently won the 2022 Award of Excellence in Print Publications for the center's Population Forecast 2020-2060 from the Association for University Business and Economic Research (AUBER).…