Tomorrow David Bernstein will be speaking to students in the UCA College of Business Auditorium at 1:40pm. The talk is open to the public. Professor Bernstein will be discussing his book *Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America*

In this Forbes article, patrickmgleason looks at recent tax cuts in Arkansas, and cites the new Arkansas Center for Research in Economics ACRE and Tax Foundation book on future tax reform options for Arkansas: forbes.com/sites/patrickg…

Why has housing become so expensive lately? Today, Emily Hamilton Emily Hamilton from the @Mercatus Center's Urbanity Project will talk to UCA College of Business students about the barriers to building new housing The talk is open to the public! 1:40pm in the College of Business Auditorium

ACRE's final guest speaker this semester will be Dr. Michael Munger Michael Munger 🏖️🔪👨‍🍳 from Duke's PPE program. His talk tomorrow at 1:40pm in the UCA College of Business auditorium is open to the public. You don't want to miss Munger!

11 students in the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics ACRE Economics Reading Group visited Southern Methodist University in Dallas for a Reading Group Summit hosted by the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom on February 24th. Students engaged with Peter Jaworski, author of one of the books students read.

This Thursday in the UCA College of Business Auditorium, we will have Daniel Smith Daniel J. Smith from Political Economy Research Institute at MTSU talking to our students about the Federal Reserve during the pandemic. Open to the public, come to learn about macroeconomics and inflation!

This week ACRE welcomes our final guest speaker of the semester. Joy Buchanan Joy Buchanan will speak to students about her research on ChatGPT. Should students trust it? Come find out!

At #WomenInEconomics symposium @FederalReserve Bank St. Louis with students & colleagues. Inspiring role models & networking opportunities. St. Louis is beautiful! #WomenInEconomics

Detecting corruption isn't easy. Would you notice if $500,000 went missing in your district? Corruption should never occur, but it's slow to detect. Why? How can we speed things up? Read my op-ed wt AR Democrat-Gazette tinyurl.com/5ewe5jup #Transparency

David Boaz with the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics ACRE reading group in Fall 2022. He was very generous with his time and answering all questions from students thoughtfully. RIP David Boaz

In Spring 2024, ACRE supported several travel opportunities for UCA students to attend conferences. Several female students attended the Women in Econ conference at the St. Louis Fed. And our research fellows presented at the SOBIE conference Read more: uca.edu/acre/2024/05/2…

Arkansas: we have an income tax bill filed for the special session. SB1 and HB1001 will lower the top personal income tax rate from 4.4% to 3.9%, and the top corporate income tax rate from 4.8% to 4.3%. The changes would be retroactive to January 2024 arkleg.state.ar.us/Bills/Detail?i…

The Arkansas legislature is meeting this week for a special session that may further reduce taxes for Arkansas. How would the proposed income tax changes affect taxpayers? ACRE Director Jeremy Horpedahl Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 crunches the numbers uca.edu/acre/2024/06/1…

On October 31st ACRE will host Nadine Strossen for a discussion on free speech. She is a Senior Fellow at FIRE, past President of the ACLU, and professor emerita at NYU Law School. The event will start at 1:40pm in the UCA College of Business Auditorium.

Today we are excited to welcome Anne bradley from TFAS to speak at ACRE about women and economic freedom, this afternoon at 1:40pm in room COB 100

This Thursday, we will be hosting Leah Boustan at UCA College of Business. She will be giving a public talk at 1:40pm on "America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success"