Dr. Kelsi Hobbs, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics, continues to advance her research program on housing evictions and affordable housing. She has multiple active research projects focused on housing evictions and the impacts of public policies, such as unemployment insurance, on housing evictions. During a recent tour of The Advanced Structures and Composite […]
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Dr. Tim Waring, Associate Professor in the School of Economics, gave an open webinar, The Role of Cooperation in the Evolution of Cooperatives, in the Prosocial World seminar series. Waring delivered his talk to a global audience on February 10, 2023. His webinar explored the fundamental question – How do organizations evolve? Dr. Waring generally […]
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Andrew Crawley, Associate Professor in the School of Economics, spoke to the New York Times about the impacts of recent in-migration on Maine’s housing and labor markets. For now, it’s a blip, not a trend — but even as a blip, it’s incredible, and if it holds steady, then it’s huge,” Mr. Crawley said. “For […]
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School of Economics (SOE) Professor Jonathan Rubin recently spoke about the economic impacts of climate change in Maine as part of The Maine State Chamber of Commerce’s Economics of Climate Change Webinar Series. The January 18th Webinar in this series focused on the current impacts of climate change on the Maine economy. Dr. Rubin contributed […]
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Dr. Kathleen Bell, Professor in the School of Economics (SOE), recently presented her research on community resilience at the 69th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International in Montreal, Canada. Her talk, Learning about rural community resilience and capacity from municipal actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, focused on local government participation in […]
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Dr. Jonathan Malacarne, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics (SOE), recently presented at American Economic Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. His talk, Locus of Control as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Experience and Learning. explored agricultural technology adoption and beliefs about the perceived returns to adoption using the lens of locus […]
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Dr. Jonathan Malacarne, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics (SOE), recently gave a research seminar at The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC . His talk, Bundling Genetic and Financial Technologies: Evidence of impact, valuation, and the learning process, offered insights about improving programs designed to support farmers. For more information […]
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Dr. Kelsi Hobbs, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics (SOE), presented her research on rental housing evictions at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association’s (AREUEA) International Conference in Dublin, Ireland. Her talk, The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Rental Housing Evictions, focused on the impacts of unemployment insurance on rental housing evictions. […]
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Dr. Tommy Wiesen, Assistant Professor in the School of Economics (SOE), presented his research on modeling responses to shocks at the 2022 Annual Conference of the Western Economics Association International in Portland, Oregon. His talk, A Joint Impulse Response Function for Vector Autoregressive Models, addresses the usefulness of developing new approaches to assess the impacts […]
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SOE Professor Jonathan Rubin is spending the Fall Semester in Canada as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at University of Ottawa’s Smart Prosperity Institute. Rubin, who also Directs the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Canada Research Chair in the Environment and Economy. While in Ottawa, he will be researching US- […]
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