Category Archives: Publication

The Canadian dollar has gotten weaker and weaker the last few years, so it costs Canadians more to pay for anything from a can of peas to a vacation condo.

Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs joined distinguished panelists, economists and guests at the Orange County Convention Center for the 2016 Economic Summit on Thursday, Jan. 21. Immediately following the Economic Summit, Mayor Jacobs hosted the inaugural Florida TechMatch, an event that paves the way for local tech companies to build relationships and contracts with national industry leaders.

Economics is a subject that most of us scratch our heads at, but for Sean Snaith, the director of the UCF Institute for Economic Competitiveness, it is a passion that has grown throughout a lifetime.

Orange County’s annual economic summit highlighted the Orlando region’s steady growth in the number of jobs Thursday.

100 of Central Florida’s most influential people weigh in on current events.

“We are closer to the next recession than further from the last,” Snaith said at a Jan. 29 Dean’s Speaker Series hosted by the University of Central Florida College of Business. “I’m 100 percent sure there will be another. I’m just not 100 percent sure of when.”

with A. Akhigbe and A. Martin., Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, February 2015, 1-21

with A. Akhigbe, Journal of Corporate Finance, April 2015, 31, 271-283

with A. Akhigbe and M. Newman, forthcoming, Financial Management

Business professionals in Central Florida want to bridge a gap early stage tech firms often face: connecting with established companies for potential work.