Accomplishments: Department of Finance
Steven Wei Ho (Finance, Business) had a paper (co-authored with Alexandre Lauwers at The Graduate Institute, Geneva): 鈥淚s There Smart Money? How Information in the Commodity Futures Market Is Priced into the Cross-Section of Stock Returns with Delay,鈥 accepted for publication by the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, which is a鈥
G Liu (Finance) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health) presented an interdisciplinary poster entitled, 鈥淓ffect of Fear of Missing Out in Cryptocurrencies and Meme Stocks in a University Population鈥 at the 15th annual Nevada State Conference on Problem Gambling held in Las Vegas earlier this month. Liu, a graduate student, secured a grant鈥
Congratulations to the recipients of these 2022 性视界传媒 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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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, 鈥淚s Language an Economic Institution? Evidence from R&D Investment,鈥 was recently鈥
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鈥
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鈥
Daniel Chi (Finance) recently had a research paper, 鈥淚s Language an Economic Institution? Evidence from R&D Investment,鈥 accepted for publication by the Journal of Corporate Finance, which is considered an 鈥淎鈥 journal in finance. The study shows that how a language describes the future affects the speaker鈥檚 perception about the timing of鈥
Daniel Chi (Finance) and his co-authors, Manu Gupta (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Shane A. Johnson (Texas A&M University), recently had a paper, 鈥淪hort-Horizon Incentives and Stock Price Inflation,鈥 accepted for publication by the Journal of Corporate Finance. This publication is considered to be an "A" journal in鈥
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鈥