ACCOUNTING ECONOMICS

Urton Anderson received the ‘Auditing Section Outstanding Educator Award’ at the Audit Midyear Meeting.

The IIA recognized UK’s Von Allmen School of Accountancy thanks to Urton Anderson and Dave Osborne’s work developing and delivering a popular and innovative Internal Audit elective school.

Monika Causholli received the Gatton College Research Excellence Award for Academic Impact.

Ben Commerford was honored with the Best Reviewer Award for Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. He was also recently appointed to the editorial board at The Accounting Review

Duke Ferguson’s “Gaming the IRS’s ThirdParty Reporting System: Evidence from Pari-Mutuel Wagering” was accepted in the Journal of Accounting Research

Tom Lewis received the Gatton College Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

Hong Xie’s co-authored paper, “Tax Avoidance and Firm Value: Does Qualitative Disclosure in the Tax Footnote Matter?” was accepted for publication at Review of Accounting Studies

Jennifer Siebenthaler was presented with the student nominated outstanding faculty of the year award at the Beta Alpha Psi banquet.

Olga Malkova’s paper, ”Time to Grow Up? Adult Children as Determinants of Parental Labor Supply,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of European Economic Association

Felipe Benguria’s paper, “Productivity and Trade Dynamics in Sudden Stops,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of International Economics

Lala Ma’s paper, “Racial Gaps in Federal Flood Buyout Compensations,” was accepted for publication in the AEA: Papers and Proceedings

Ken Troske was appointed a member of the National Academies of Science panel on social and economic mobility.

Jim Ziliak served as chair of National Academies of Science, that published a report on revising the measure of poverty in America.

Chuck Courtemanche’s paper, “Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Health Economics

Darshak Patel’s paper co-authored with Justin Roush (Xavier University), “Emoticons as Performance Feedback for College Students: A Large-Classroom Field Experiment,” was published in the AEA: Papers and Proceedings