Tag: economics and management

Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management) had two articles appear at the end of 2020. The first, titled “Premises, promises and perils of the Academic Potemkin Village,” was published in Management Learning, and argues for leveraging collaboration and consortia in higher education as one solution to financial distress. The second, titled “Experiential pedagogy and the…

Sheng Yang (Economics and Management) was recently invited to join the Reviewer Board of the Journal of Risk and Financial Management. JRFM is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published by MDPI. It is ranked B in the 2019 ABDC Journal Quality List and has been indexed by a number of databases, including the Emerging…

Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Economics and Management) had a paper, “Minimum Wage and Employment Growth,” accepted for publication in International Advances in Economic Research. This paper was co-authored with Shaun Gilyard ’19, who is now pursuing a PhD in economics at West Virginia University. Their research was made possible by a Presidential Student-Faculty Collaboration Grant awarded for…

Kathy Lund Dean recently published an article entitled, “From advocacy to accountability in experiential learning practices” in Management Learning, a critical theory journal in business and management learning. Lund Dean also served as a keynote plenary speaker at the Academy of Management international meeting in Boston this August and was recently elected to the Board…

Sheng Yang collaborated with Gustavus graduate Thanh Nguyen ’15 to publish an article titled “Skewness Preference and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market” in Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

Tom Clement had a paper, “A Conceptual Framework of Entrepreneurial Finance,” accepted for publication in Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, a spin-off publication of the top-tier journal Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. The paper offers the first-ever comprehensive framework that differentiates entrepreneurial finance from corporate finance and provides content and learning outcomes for educators on what to…

Marta Podemska-Mikluch published an article “Inequality, Entanglement, and Entrepreneurship—the Role of Voluntary and Forced Investors” in Cosmos + Taxis.

Marta Podemska-Mikluch co-authored a policy brief, “How Medicare Is Hindering Health Care Innovation, and a Way Forward,” that was recently published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The brief borrows from a research paper by Podemska-Mikluch published earlier this year.

Sheng Yang published an article, “Entry and Exit Decisions with Switching Regime Excess Capacity,” in International Advances in Economic Research. Applying the switching regime methods of Goldfeld and Quandt to a logit model, the study examines how expected excess capacity fosters impediments to entry and incentives to exit in the U.S. aluminum industry.

Marta Podemska-Mikluch gave a series of talks at the Rockford University Center for ethics and entrepreneurship. Podemska-Mikluch spoke on the topic of innovation, regulation, and freedom in healthcare. She also shared her findings regarding the regulatory obstacles that delay and prevent access to a life-saving therapy for patients suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.