Faculty activities

Professor Mike Shor participates in Science Salon on Climate Change

Posted on November 17, 2015September 17, 2021 by McConnel, Mark

Last Thursday, eighty Hartford-area residents met at NIXS in Hartford for cocktails and a discussion of climate change, part of UConn’s ongoing Science Salon series.

Professor Shor discussed his latest research about how people process (and ignore) scientific evidence in favor of preconceived notions. One audience member (failing to appreciate the irony) told the entire panel of scientists that he does not believe a word of what they are saying but their “so called facts” conflict with his prior view.

Background:

For the first Science Salon (including Dick Langlois): http://econ.uconn.edu/2015/06/08/professor-langlois-at-uconns-first-science-salon/

Ken Couch of UConn visits RAND and USC

Posted on September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 by McConnel, Mark

Kenneth Couch from UConn visited the Pardee Graduate School at RAND in Santa Monica, California in September where he made a research presentation.

While in Los Angeles, he also visited with one of his research collaborators, Julie Zissimopoulos, and a Co-Editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Elizabeth Graddy, at USC. Professor Graddy serves as Vice Provost of Academic and Faculty Affairs for USC.

Professor Prakash Presents Paper

Posted on September 18, 2015December 13, 2024 by McConnel, Mark

Professor Nishith Prakash presented his paper titled, “Do Criminally Accused Politicians Affect Economic Outcomes? Evidence from India” at various places including Dartmouth College, Yale University and Wellesley College during the past spring semester.

Couch Serves on APPAM Strategic Planning Committee

Posted on July 28, 2015October 2, 2015 by McConnel, Mark

Professor Kenneth Couch is participating in a Strategic Planning Committee of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

APPAM is a scholarly association representing roughly 90 member institutions and 2000 individual members. The committee is charged with developing a five-year strategic plan for APPAM and is chaired by a Harvard Professor and the Chief Economist of the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Other members of the committee include representatives of Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Howard University, Mathematica, MDRC, Pepperdine and the University of Minnesota.

Professor Naknoi Presents at the Society for Economic Dynamics meeting in Poland

Posted on July 9, 2015August 24, 2015 by McConnel, Mark

Professor Naknoi presented her paper on exchange rate pass-through in the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Dynamics, which was held in Warsaw, Poland, June 25-27.

Professor Harmon on ‘Nontraditional Magic’ Panel

Posted on June 16, 2015October 2, 2015 by McConnel, Mark

Professor Harmon took part in the panel “Nontraditional Magic: Online and Service-Learning Pedagogy and Teaching,” joining panelists: Diana Rios, UConn Professor of Communication and El Instituto, and UConn Professor Carl Salsedo, Extension Educator, Horticulture, at the 2015 American Association of University Professors Conference on the State of Higher Education, Washington, D.C. June 11, 2015.

The roundtable focused on reconfiguring traditional “live” ways of learning and lecturing into another kind of “magic.” Contemporary “magic” refers to dynamic inspiration to share knowledge and to instigate learning among Millennials.

Professor Langlois at UConn’s First Science Salon

Posted on June 8, 2015December 13, 2024 by McConnel, Mark

Professor Langlois took part in the first UConn Science Salon, joining panelists from across disciplines to discuss “3D Printing: Living Tissue to Human Organ.”

See pictures and highlights from the event at UConn Today.

Prof. Ahking presents paper at conferences

Posted on April 2, 2015December 13, 2024 by Ahking, Francis

Prof. Ahking presented a paper “The Economies of the Great Lakes States” at the 54th Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association in Mobile, AL, March 26 – 28. He also presented the paper at the 2014 Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings in Atlanta, GA, in November 2014. The conference paper is available for download from ResearchGate.

Prof. Naknoi has paper accepted by JME

Posted on April 1, 2015October 2, 2015 by Ahking, Francis

Prof. Naknoi and co-author YiLi Chien (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) have their paper “The Risk Premium and Long-Run Global Imbalances” accepted for publication in the Journal of Monetary Economics. The paper examines the sustainability of U.S. trade deficits, given the assumption that U.S. investors take on more aggregate risk than foreign investors. It predicts that half of US trade deficits is sustainable. A copy of the working paper is available for download from RePEc.

Prof. Couch Appoints New Members of JPAM Editorial Team

Posted on March 13, 2015December 13, 2024 by Ahking, Francis

Since becoming Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) in 2014, Professor Ken Couch has invited a number of prominent researchers to join its editorial team. Scholars from American University, Berkeley, Cornell, Duke, Indiana, George Washington, Michigan, Oxford, NYU, Penn, RAND, UConn, USC, the Urban Institute, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin are among this group. JPAM is a leading outlet for applied research on innovations in policy and management.