UConn Professor, Colleagues Discover That Turkey’s Take-Charge Healthcare Initiative Saves Lives
Since the nation of Turkey launched an aggressive healthcare initiative, providing free and convenient access to primary care for all its citizens, at conveniently located walk-in clinics, the mortality rate has decreased, most dramatically among infants.Continue Reading
Stephen Park, an assistant professor of business law, was recently honored by the MS in Financial Risk Management Program for outstanding teaching. This past December, Park was awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award by the graduating class for the second consecutive academic year. Park teaches a course on Legal and Ethical Issues in Financial Risk Management. His innovative teaching emphasizes qualitative risk analysis and writing skills, and incorporates role-based simulation exercises.Continue Reading
“If the person next to you in class leans over and whispers, ‘I love you,’ you have to say: ‘Not until after class. I have to focus on Kochanek’s lecture now!'”
That’s one of the many witty remarks that Professor Richard “Dick” Kochanek has used to engage the 250 underclassmen in his “Principles of Financial Accounting” class.
Kochanek, who retired at the end of fall semester, is one of the most beloved and highly regarded professors at UConn. He has extremely high ratings from his students and is widely credited with turning their curiosity about accounting into a life-long career.Continue Reading
Lessons in Patriotism, Family, Perseverance Resonate in Connecticut Accordion Museum
When Paul Ramunni was just 10 years old, his mother announced that he was going to learn to play the accordion.
His reaction was instant disdain.
“No Mom! Anything but that,” he said.
But his mother insisted, and play he did. He rarely practiced and, consequently, wasn’t very good. He considered the instrument a burden. Competitions were stressful. And, worse, it didn’t boost the social status of Ramunni, a glasses-wearing, Italian kid from Long Island. A few fights broke out on the school bus because of the teasing.Continue Reading
How Wins and Losses Affect Stock Prices
Scripps Media, Inc. – Of the 32 teams in the NFL, 24 play in stadiums that have sold their naming rights to large corporations. (Well, pending the name of the new home of the Los Angeles Rams; but their former home in St. Louis was sponsored by the financial services firm Edward Jones, which is included in this total.)
Some are getting relative deals: RCA and Ford pay only $1 million a year for the naming rights to the RCA Dome and Ford Field, the respective home of the Indianapolis Colts and Detroit Lions. The numbers can go as high as the $11 million a year that Levi’s pays to sponsor the San Francisco 49er’s home stadium.
The List’s Jimmy Rhoades asks…is it worth it?
KCBS – Ever wonder what the payoff is—other than increased name recognition—for those companies that pay millions of dollars to put their name on a sports facility? New research has found that those companies and their investors can reap rewards or suffer losses depending upon the outcomes of the high interest games in those stadiums.
For a closer look, KCBS chats with Assaf Eisdorfer, associate professor of finance at the University of Connecticut School of Business:
Finance Professor Wins Best Paper Award for Creating Insightful, Novel Method of Risk Assessment
Finance professor Yaacov Kopeliovich and his RiXtrema research team colleagues have won the 2015 Peter L. Bernstein Award for Best Paper for their work titled, “Robust Risk Estimation and Hedging: A Reverse Stress Testing Approach.”
The article originally appeared in the Journal of Derivatives in May 2015. It was selected by a three-person review committee and was chosen from a pool of nominations from 11 top financial journals. The judges looked for an original or new approach to the field or subject of study; surprising and/or insightful results or implications; and both practical and academic relevance.Continue Reading
Welcome to the Fall 2015 Research Newsletter of the University of Connecticut School of Business. It has been a busy semester, with our colleagues conducting innovative research in a variety of fields and winning awards along the way.
Professor and OPIM Department Head Ram D. Gopal received the prestigious INFORMS Information Systems Society’s Distinguished Fellow Award, recognizing his intellectual leadership, stewardship and impactful research.Continue Reading