Category Archives: Publication

The bright, shiny new year for the recovering economy grew quickly tarnished this past week with the Dow and S&P stock markets delivering their worst start to a new year. Ever.

During the most recent Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) negotiation process in 2010-11 between National Basketball Association (NBA) team owners and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), the owners proposed adding a new element to the then-current free agency rules—a “franchise player designation.” A franchise tag would have allowed each NBA team to designate one player […]

While some major Daytona Beach projects are on track, others won’t open as soon as hoped.

UCF economist Sean Snaith predicts growth in real consumer spending from 2015 to 2018 will average 3 percent.

Addressing Household Indebtedness: Monetary, Fiscal and Macroprudential Policy? with Sarah Zubairy, European Economic Review, forthcoming.

Eating with a fork instead of a spoon can help you lose weight, new research suggests.

Worried about overindulging on rich food during the holidays? Hang a mirror in your dining room at table height. It may stop you from enjoying unhealthy food as much.

It seems like a disarmingly simple suggestion, but installing a mirror in the dining room and kitchen could be the best way to avoid piling on the pounds.

A new study has found that watching yourself eat something unhealthy, like a slice of chocolate cake, can make that food seem less tasty. And that, in turn, might make you eat less.