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Student News
Week in Washington DC
Students engaged with professionals at think tanks, government organizations and international lending institutions opening career paths to new opportunities.
Consulting Internship Panel
At a Business Economics Society club meeting, current QAMO students shared their summer internship experience at various consulting companies.
QAMO Alumni Event: Football vs Weber State
QAMO alumni gathered to reconnect, network and enjoy a Utes victory!
QAMO Conversation: Sophomore Macy Crowell
Massachusetts native Macy Crowell is a rising sophomore majoring in QAMO.
QAMO Major: Enriching the Student Experience
Quantitative Analysis of Markets & Organizations (QAMO) majors builds analytical, technical, and problem-solving skills by utilizing game theory and econometrics to answer real-world questions.
Political Economy and Theory
Prosecutor Elections and Police Accountability
Prosecutors play an important role in holding police accountable by determining whether or not an officer has broken the law.
Applied Game Theory
In this chapter we put forward a framework for using game theory to study politics. In our view, the rigorous analysis of strategic interactions can make a number of [...]
Dispute Resolution Institutions and Strategic Militarization
A voluminous literature seeks to understand which institutions effectively resolve disputes that might otherwise lead to military conflict. The emergence of a dispute is usually taken as the starting [...]
Taxes and Public Economics
Should Utah eliminate the sales tax on food?
Utah legislators are once again debating whether to eliminate the sales tax on food, in hopes of giving a break to lower-income households. But Eccles School professor Adam Looney argues [...]
What Would a Cash Flow Tax Look Like For U.S. Companies? Lessons from a Historical Panel
In this article, Patel and McClelland present a prototype destination basis cash flow tax to replace the existing corporate income tax. To gain some insight into the potential consequences [...]
The Impact of Investor-Level Taxation on Mergers and Acquisitions
Investor-level taxation may distort merger and acquisition decisions when capital gains are taxed at a preferable rate, relative to dividends. The intuition is that the value of a target’s assets [...]
Marijuana Taxation and Imperfect Competition
We investigate the tax implications for the new recreational marijuana industry in the United States, which reached a size of $9 billion in 2017. We exploit administrative data from [...]
Covid Blogs
State Government’s Leadership Role in Utah’s Economic Recovery and Business Success
[Original air date: May 29, 2020] State Government's Leadership Role in Utah's Economic Recovery and Business Success View Recording View PowerPoint [...]
Key Insights that Matter Most to Short- and Long-Term Planning
[Original air date: May 22, 2020] Key Insights that Matter Most to Short- and Long-Term Planning View Recording View PowerPoint [...]
Schools & Sports — When and How Do Large Groups Return?
[Original air date: May 15, 2020] Schools & Sports — When and How Do Large Groups Return? View Recording View PowerPoint [...]
Building Confidence in the Next Phase of Recovery
[Original air date: May 8, 2020] Building Confidence in the Next Phase of Recovery View Recording View PowerPoint Moderator: [...]
The Construction Industry: How to Build Your Way Back
[Original air date: May 5, 2020] The Construction Industry: How to Build Your Way Back View Recording View PowerPoint View Colliers [...]
The COVID-19 Economic Tsunami: A Business Forecast You Can Use
[Original air date: May 1, 2020] The COVID-19 Economic Tsunami: A Business Forecast You Can Use View Recording View PowerPoint [...]