Maxwell School News and Commentary

Badi H. Baltagi, James P. Lesage, R. Kelley Pace

Emilyn Ruble Whitesell, Leanna Stiefel & Amy Ellen Schwartz

Qing Miao, Yilin Hou & Michael Abrigo

This paper employs panel vector autoregression to examine the dynamic fiscal response to disaster shocks.

Shannon M. Monnat & Raeven Faye Chandler

James Tatum III article on Central Falls, Rhode Island, "Central Falls' Bankruptcy and the Principle of Shared Pain," was published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Finance and Management.

This op-ed, titled “The Coast Guard's Flawed Icebreaker Plan,” criticizes the Coast Guard for pursuing a plan to build a new icebreaker at the cost of $1 billion. That icebreaker, which will take 10 years to complete, will provide only the second icebreaker in America’s fleet, at a time when other nations vying for control of the Arctic have dozens.

Anthropology student Soleil Young — a senior who is also majoring in biology — was featured in the Daily Orange earlier this fall because of unusual archaeological research she is conducting for her honors thesis.

An interdisciplinary team of SU cybersecurity, engineering, economics, and law experts are conducting research into various “two-way, distributed” energy market designs to assess potential security and privacy risks inherent in each and the trade-offs between reducing risk and optimizing market performance. Funded with a $344,184 grant from the National Science Foundation, the team is drawn from SU’s School of Information Studies (iSchool), College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS), Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and College of Law.

A Daily Beast article profiles the founders of the Well Dressed Movement at Syracuse University. Kwame Phipps and his roommates co-founded the movement to challenge racial stereotypes.