Sticking the Landing
A new study by Turner College economics professor Frank Mixon and Richard Cebula of George Mason University investigates the pattern of innovations in women’s artistic gymnastics that have led to eponymous gymnastics skills like that developed by, and attributed to, Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci. In her gold medal-winning performance at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Comăneci’s flawless performance of the “Comăneci salto” was a crucial element in scoring a perfect 10 on the uneven bars. In their 2022 paper appearing in the Journal of Sports Economics, Mixon and Cebula investigate the impact of appropriability on the supply of innovation by examining the frequency of eponymous skills in women’s gymnastics before and during the transition to a new market-based economic order in Eastern Europe. The study posits that following the early 1990s dissolution the communist governments of the Soviet Bloc and its satellites, the supply of innovation in the form of eponymous skills in women’s gymnastics moved away from these countries and toward western nations, where property rights freedoms were much more secure. Combining eponymous skills frequency data (from 1969 to the present) with measures of property rights freedom from the Heritage Foundation and the Fraser Institute, goodness-of-fit tests and a stochastic dominance approach support the contention of the study, namely that innovation in this case derives from the ability of athletes to appropriate, through either government support (largesse) or market-based capitalization, the returns to their human capital investments.
The Turner College's new marketing intern Lizzy Grant , a senior marketing major from Newnan who previously attended Gordon State College, where she played varsity soccer, and is scheduled to graduate from the Turner College in May of 2024, has hit the ground running in her new position. She recently played a large role in the creation of a video tour of the Synovus Center, the main campus home of the Turner College. The video helps to guide new students on where to go in the building and who they can talk to if they help. The video showcases the Student Services Center, the main lobby, and more. The video is played as part of a loop on video screens placed throughout the Synovus Center. Lizzy's list of activities at CSU is impressive. She is the Treasurer of the Turner College's Marketing Club, the President of Marketing for the Turner College's chapter of the Financial Management Association, and an Ambassador for the Turner College. She is also the Treasurer of her s
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