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Campus News |

UNLV’s Take Your Child to Work Day gives kids a chance to see what their parents do while exploring a fun range of educational and career-related activities.

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Campus News |

The students and faculty of UNLV are springing into headlines around the country.

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Campus News |

UNLV's School of Public Policy and Leadership offers courses in data visualization that are helping to create a workforce pipeline.

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Campus News |

A collection of news highlights featuring students and faculty.

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People |

From the desert to the mountains to the market, Honors College student Allister Dias explores Morocco as part of Lee Business School's Global Entrepreneurship Experience.

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UNLV History |

The former student body president and longtime donor passes away, 60 years after UNLV's first commencement. 

Business and Economic Research In The News

Las Vegas Review Journal

In Southern Nevada, business confidence “plunged” this quarter to its lowest level in 16 years, according to UNLV’s Center for Business and Economic Research. All told, local business leaders’ view of U.S. economic conditions “nosedived,” and their view of conditions in Nevada “also sank,” the center reported.

KSNV-TV: News 3

The "No Tax on Tips" Act, which aims to eliminate federal taxes on tips, passed the Senate on Monday, drawing significant attention in Las Vegas, where 17% of the workforce relies on tips, according to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's Center for Business and Economic Research.

APM Research Lab

Since 2020, Nevada’s unemployment rate has been significantly higher than the national average, even as tourism has recovered

Nevada Current

Nevada’s Economic Forum adjusted the tax revenue forecast down $191 million for the upcoming biennium, representing a further dimming of& an already dreary outlook of how the economy will fare under the Trump administration.

Las Vegas Weekly

The economic impact of the Vegas sports boom has been a fast-moving phenomenon, so specific and intriguing that the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER)and Sports Innovation Institute have created a tracking tool, the Southern Nevada Sports Economy Data Dashboard, to serve as an evolving research document.

KNPR News

After weeks of tariff changes, and the resulting market dips, Americans are terrified of looking at their 401ks, prices are fluctuating for just about everything and consumer confidence hasn't been this low since the pandemic.

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Recent Business and Economic Research Accomplishments

Megan R. Griffard (Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education), Brian Labus (Epidemiology and Biostatistics), and Brian Woods (Center for Business and Economic Research) composed an expert panel for a special collaborative episode of Vegas PBS's Nevada Week and KNPR's State of Nevada that looked back at the COVID-19…
Stephen Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) had his paper, "Does Debt  Management Matter for  REIT Returns?", with co-authors Zhilan Feng, Clarkson University, and Dogan Tirtiroglu, Ryerson University appear as the lead article in the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, January 2025. Asset and debt…
Stephen M. Miller (Business; Center for Business and Economic Research) and Giorgio Canarella, formerly UNLV, along with Mahdi Ghaemi Asl and Mohammad Ghasemi Doudkanlou published an academic paper, "On the speed of adjustment (SOA) toward the target financial leverage ratios and its determinants: Evidence from the capital structure of the…
Stephen M. Miller (Economics and Center for Business and Economic Research) and Yevgeniy Teryoshin (Economics) had a paper published by Economics Letters titled "Income Inequality and Monetary Policy Regimes.” This paper reconsiders the possible effects of monetary policy on income inequality to determine whether monetary policy can indirectly…
Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) presented the outlook for the Southern Nevada economy to the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Oct. 26 at the Gold Coast Hotel and Casino. The presentation was followed by a Q&A.
Stephen M. Miller (Economics; Center for Business and Economic Research) published “Estimating U.S. housing price network connectedness: Evidence from dynamic Elastic Net, Lasso, and ridge vector autoregressive models" in the International Review of Economics and Finance with David Gabauer, Academy of Data Science in Finance, Vienna, Austria and…