Research Spotlights
2013 Spotlights
William Lastrapes
When Texas policymakers rethought their state’s outdated ideas on home foreclosures, they also shed light on new ways to understand how housing markets affect the overall economy.
Chris Cornwell
Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys—even when they perform worse on standardized tests? New research from Terry helps explain the gender disparities that exist in our classrooms.
2012 Spotlights
Berrak Bahadir
Economics professor Berrak Bahadir’s research shows that if banks have enough credit information on borrowers it can mitigate the potential for a banking crisis.
2011 Spotlights
Nathaniel Grow
Nathaniel Grow argues in his award-winning paper that Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption hasn’t led it to behave much differently than the other pro sports leagues that don’t operate as unregulated monopolies.
Jane Thayer
Financial markets move faster than ever, but Thayer's research shows investment decisions are still undermined by the same old biases of human emotions.
Health Economics
By bringing in three, new health-economics researchers to the faculty, the Terry College makes a major commitment to an area of national concern.
2010 Spotlights
Tao Shu
Tao Shu and his colleagues employed exhaustive research methods to look for evidence of insider trading in six years of data on each trade of NASDAQ stock and found the misuse of information seems to be very rare.
Michael Pfarrer
In a study of intangible assets, Michael Pfarrer’s research asks whether a company’s strong reputation or celebrity status helps or hurts the market’s reaction when it makes a surprise announcement about earnings.
2009 Spotlights
Michael Eriksen
The U.S. government spends $30 billion annually to encourage homeownership, but Eriksen's study challenges the widely accepted notion that homeownership creates good neighbors.
Carolyn Dehring
Does land conservation have measurable benefits capitalized into the land market? Professor Carolyn Dehring is researching the answer as part of a National Science Foundation-funded program.
Elena Karahanna
MIS professor Elena Karahanna's initial interest in telemedicine stemmed from an NBC News report on a startup called Health e-Station that offered doctor consultations via webcam. Her idea earned her a Terry-Sanford Research Award, and the resulting paper was accepted for publication.
Rob Hoyt
With recent hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods inflicting damages that amount to tens of billions of dollars, traditional means of dealing with large-scale risk have proven insufficient. Some businesses must operate in environments where these natural disasters have the potential to create havoc with infrastructure, production, and revenue. Catastrophe securitization is a viable alternative to insurance because it helps spread risk, saves companies from potential financial ruin, and even provides corporations and qualified investors a low risk security with a favorable return on their investment — a winning proposition for all.
2008 Spotlights
Maric Boudreau
Maric Boudreau and Rick Watson are in the early stages of research that involves monitoring "Green IT," a new environmental movement to combat the startling fact that the global-wide use of PCs, servers, and telecom networks produces as much greenhouse gas as all of the world's airplanes. And for these two MIS professors and a collaborator from Georgia State, there's much more to Green IT than just the computer-generated pollution that's making news today.
Daniel Feldman
Feldman, who is associate dean for research and international programs and also holds the Synovus Chair of Servant Leadership in the Institute for Leadership Advancement, investigates how individuals make decisions to enter or change careers and how new hires adjust to new work environments and to pressure from veteran employees.
Robert Vandenberg
Vandenberg is internationally recognized as an expert in research methods and has lead workshops or courses on research methodology in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. As a Distinguished Research Methodologist for the Center for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis, his workshops are attended by faculty and PhD students from across the U.S. and webcast to 50 different universities around the world.
Vanessa Patrick
The Athens eatery Mama's Boy is where Assistant Professor Vanessa Patrick and doctoral student Henrik Hagtvedt briefly posed as waiters to investigate the phenomenon of art infusion. They were collecting data for groundbreaking research appearing this June in the Journal of Marketing Research.
2007 Spotlights
Steven Pottier
The American Council of Life Insurers recently contracted with Steven Pottier, a Terry College professor of risk management and insurance, to conduct a research study related to the proposed Optional Federal Charter, which is an offshoot of the National Insurance Act of 2006.
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
A new study co-authored by Terry finance professors Jeff Netter and Jim Linck and former doctoral student Tina Yang finds that the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 — as well as related rule changes at major stock exchanges — have dramatically altered the makeup of corporate boards, making them larger and more independent.
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