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.
A field experiment into the cheating habits of undergraduate students sheds new light on the use of threats and sanctions to curb dishonest scholastic behavior. Georgia Tech School of Economics professor Daniel Dench, along with Theodore Joyce at Baruch College, published the research online in the February 14, 2022 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. They conclude that a professor informing students that the school has the means to detect cheating has little effect.
Despite earning more than half of all doctoral degrees conferred in the U.S., women are significantly underrepresented in faculty positions at colleges and universities. This is particularly true in tenure-track and tenured positions, with women making up just over a third of all full professors. Women are also less likely to receive tenure or be promoted to full professor, a situation known as the academic “leaky pipeline,” where women’s representation continues to decline the further they advance in their careers.
Professor and School Chair Laura Taylor's paper "Utility-Scale Solar Farms and Agricultural Land Values" was accepted into the journal Land Economics. She writes:
Stephanie Moody was featured in our IAC Alumni Around the World page. In her spare time away from her work as a project manager at Warner Bros. Discovery, she runs an animal rescue founded with her husband in the North Georgia mountains.
