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Seawolf Debate Team

CBPP Students Sam Erickson (BBA Finance) and Jacob Shercliffe (Economics) Advance to Nationals with the Seawolf Debate Team

CBPP students Sam Erickson (BBA Finance) and Jacob Shercliffe (Economics) defeated more than sixty teams from universities across the West to become this year’s regional champions.

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Dr. Kelcie Ralph

Economics Alumna Dr. Kelcie Ralph to Speak on the Role of Transportation Planners

Dr. Kelcie Ralph will be speaking at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, 2018 on the lower floor Student Union. In her talk, Dr. Ralph explains that transportation planners do not only fix congestion, they also tackle climate change, promote equity and improve safety.

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Oil Platform

Faculty & Student Seminar: Effects of Severance Tax on Economic Activity - Evidence from the Oil Patch

State governments often reassess and debate changes in severance tax rates on production, there are few empirical estimates of the relationship between drilling activity and severance taxes. Dr. Dale Manning helps fill this gap by estimating the responsiveness of drilling activity to changes in production severance taxes between 1986 and 2013.

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Marlaina Ross

Economics Alumna Marlaina Ross is Headed to Indonesia

Marlaina Ross, BA Economics 2017, is currently pursuing a MA in International Affairs with a concentration in International Economics at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Next summer she will be working for Planet Indonesia, assisting with the restructuring of PI’s community capital fund, a village level savings and loans program.

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Kevin Berry

Faculty in the Spotlight: Kevin Berry

Kevin Berry joined ISER as an assistant professor of economics in January 2017, with a joint appointment in UAA's economics department. His research interests include natural capital, endogenous risk, dynamic optimization, social-ecological systems, bio-economic modeling, and applied econometrics.

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