Assistant Professor Dylan Brewer's paper "Household Responses to Winter Heating Costs: Implications for Energy Pricing Policies and Demand-Side Alternatives" was published in the journal Energy Policy. Brewer writes:
O'Neal is the 2023 School of Economics Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Learn more about the annual awards ceremony.
I am a commercial insurance broker in the technology, fintech, and private equity industry verticals. I specialize in cyber/technology errors and omissions liability, management liability and alternative risk, and international exposures.
I work as an associate project manager, and the major project I’m working on is the innovation and technology commercialization professional program. It’s a certificate course offered on the Georgia Tech Professional Education website about technology transfer and commercialization.
We have international connections, and some of our projects include building new innovation/technology parks in other countries.
Assistant Professor Casey Wichman's paper "RCTs Against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?" was accepted by the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Assistant Professor Mayra Pineda-Torres joined the School of Economics faculty in 2022 and teaches ECON 4510 Health Economics. Learn more about her work on her research page.
Cici McNamara teaches undergraduate industrial organization, which is the study of how firms acquire and maintain market power. The course uses microeconomic and game theory to model strategic interactions between firms and examines how antitrust law has regulated firm conduct to achieve certain market outcomes.
Assistant Professor Casey Wichman's article on "Water Affordability in the United States" will be published in Water Resources Research. He writes:
The provision of affordable water and sewer service is a growing concern in the United States. However, the extent of the problem is not known, and the effectiveness of different policy options is underexplored.
Mobile money allows people to receive, store and spend money and remotely access banks using a mobile phone -- provided that conditions are stable enough to support phone signals and towers. But what if a country is at war?
When an emerging infectious disease outbreak occurs, such as Covid-19, institutions of higher education (IHEs) must weigh decisions about how to operate their campuses.
By Gita Smith