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51ԹϺ’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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The students and faculty of 51ԹϺ are springing into headlines around the country.

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51ԹϺ'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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The former student body president and longtime donor passes away, 60 years after 51ԹϺ's first commencement. 

Business and Economic Research In The News

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

The Federal Reserve voted June 18 to keep interest rates at its current of 4.25% to 4.5% range. Since then, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has explained their decision making and what leads into a decision like this.

KNPR News

Clark County’s population is expected to hit 3 million by 2045, according to new projections from the 51ԹϺ Center for Business and Economic Research.

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Three million. That's the projection of Clark County's population by 2045, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER). This projection is mainly attributed to historical trends affected by the population growth seen pots-pandemic, according to CBER.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Clark County is now expected to break 3 million residents by 2045, according to a new report from The Center for Business and Economic Research at 51ԹϺ. Last year’s report had Clark County breaking the 3 million threshold in 2042. Does that mean growth is slowing?

KTNV-TV: ABC 13

Some potential homebuyers in the Las Vegas Valley are now thinking twice before purchasing a home. This comes as economic uncertainty is translating into a growing trend of more homes for sale and less being sold.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Clark County added approximately 57,566 residents to its overall population in 2016, a number that has yet to be eclipsed, according to the 2024-2060 Population Forecast report for 2024 from 51ԹϺ’s Center for Business and Economic Research.

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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 51ԹϺ, 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…