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A September 2025 post here at Turner Business reported on new research by Center for Economic Education Director Frank Mixon and the University of New Haven's Kamal Upadhyaya that offers the first examination of why some U.S. states have established sovereign wealth funds while others have not. In doing so Mixon and Upadhyaya find that various demographic and economic variables explain this choice. More specifically, linear probability, probit and Bayesian maximum likelihood analyses indicate that less populated, high-income and land-and oil-rich states are more likely than their more populated, lower-income and resource-poor counterparts to currently possess a sovereign wealth fund. Additionally, spending on K-12 education per pupil in a state is negatively related to the likelihood the state owns a sovereign wealth fund, perhaps because states that spend more heavily on education have limited absorptive capacities relative to the scale of their resource revenues. Lastly, p...

Turner College alum  Tamara Todorova continues to have a productive academic career with her recent study of the determinants of the average price level. Now a member of the economics at American University in Bulgaria, Todorova's recent publication in Economies provides a mathematical approach to understand the effect of demand shifters such as consumer income and the level of advertising on the average price level in a simple partial market equilibrium model. The study then discusses the effect of supply shifters such as the exogenous tax level, worker wage, rental rate, and technology. While government spending triggers inflation, taxes have the opposite effect. Money supply increases national income and prices while reducing the equilibrium interest rate. Therefore, money supply has pro-inflationary effects. The effect of money demand is the opposite—it increases the equilibrium interest rate, thereby lowering national income and prices. Augmentin...

Turner College management professor Mark James  has been experiencing a very successful 2025-26 academic year. In September 2025 we reported news that an investigation of  the ethics of using hidden prompts to detect AI generated writing in student submissions in asynchronous online university classes  by James, Turner College accounting professor Charles Boster and Turner College management professor Laurence Marsh  had been published by the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice . Later t hat same month we  reported that  James' work on  the link between community and work for gays and lesbians  with  Zhimin Hu of the University of Padua was published in the Journal of Business, Industry and Economics . Completing a one-week stint in September 2025 when James announced three new publications,  we reported that research by James, Boster, Nicholas Busko of Worcester Preparatory School and Towson University's Micheal Schuldt t...

The University System of Georgia announced with great fanfare yesterday that its Georgia Degrees Pay webpages now include a new online calculator with features allowing prospective and current students to compare their expected future earnings between both academic majors and USG institutions for a given academic major (see webpage capture below). For these and other comparison situations the comparison groups can be restricted to graduates who remain in Georgia or those graduates venturing out across the U.S. Turner Business took the occasion to compare expected future earnings of graduates from the various State Universities category of institutions for management, finance and marketing majors. In all cases we restricted the groups to graduates who remain in Georgia after graduation.  The table below provides a short-, intermediate- and long-term view of what graduates of each USG State University have achieved in terms of post-graduation earnings. In the spirit of the upcoming ...

The Turner College team of Charles Boster , Mark James and Jasmine Bordere , along with Zhimin Hu, a Research Fellow in the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology at the University of Padua, recently received news that their study of college students'  perceptions of belonging, support, and success is set to be published in a 2026 issue of the Research in Higher Education Journal . The study c ompares the perceptions of these three metrics that are held by African American and Caucasian students at a minority-majority university in the U.S. South. In November of 2025, the team was able to present their research at the  International Conference on Human Resources, Strategies and Development, which was held at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Research and Development in Cuenca, Ecuador. Published by the Academic and Business Research Institute,  Research in Higher Education Journal  specializes in papers on retention, assessment, accreditation, financial...

The presence of the Turner College's Butler Center for Research and Economic Development has not only benefitted local businesses and governments, it has also provided a unique opportunity for some of the Turner College's most talented students. That applies to  Jordan Mills , a  Turner College marketing major who works as an  Economic Research Assistant in the Butler Center. This position has afforded Jordan with the responsibility of c ontributing to regional economic research by designing professional reports and publications highlighting the Butler Center’s economic analyses and impact studies. Jordan and her colleagues in the Butler Center use Excel and data organization tools to compile, clean, and format datasets for reports and presentations. They also coordinate communication with faculty, staff, and external partners , including outreach to local businesses to support collaborative economic initiatives. " I['ve also] had the opportunity to attend the Georgia ...