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Economist examines Humana’s impact across Kentucky

UofL applied economist Thomas E. Lambert, authored an independent analysis examining Humana’s economic contributions across Kentucky. The report found that Humana’s operations generated nearly $20 billion in economic activity across the Commonwealth in 2025, supporting jobs, businesses and communities.

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Summer 2026 Publications

July
Navigating the grey: Microfoundations of informal economic activities among registered firms

Navigating the grey: Microfoundations of informal economic activities among registered firms

Daniel Bennett & Sadek Showkat; Journal of World Business.
Beyond exit: The afterlife of socioemotional wealth in business families

Beyond exit: The afterlife of socioemotional wealth in business families

Isabel Botero; Journal of Small Business Management.
From catastrophe to culture: The role of historical disasters in shaping long-term orientation

From catastrophe to culture: The role of historical disasters in shaping long-term orientation

Per Fredriksson; Journal of Development Economics.
A data stream approach to predicting risk: An incremental learning model

A data stream approach to predicting risk: An incremental learning model

Jozef Zurada, Jeff Guan, Sandeep Goyal; IEEE Access.
Long-wave economic cycles, Political realignment elections, and the Baran Ratio.

Long-wave economic cycles, Political realignment elections, and the Baran Ratio.

Thomas Lambert, World Review of Political Economy
The protective role of sleep in tempering the impact of ICT-driven off-hour interruptions on exhaustion at work.

The protective role of sleep in tempering the impact of ICT-driven off-hour interruptions on exhaustion at work.

Rui Sundrup; Occupational and Organizational Psychology.
Digital divide in clinical and operational artificial intelligence adoption and implementation stages: US hospital diffusion patterns and AI deserts.

Digital divide in clinical and operational artificial intelligence adoption and implementation stages: US hospital diffusion patterns and AI deserts.

Rui Sundrup; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Enhancing System Safety Analysis in Aviation: A Causal Knowledge Graph Framework Powered by Large Language Models for Proactive Risk Identification

Enhancing System Safety Analysis in Aviation: A Causal Knowledge Graph Framework Powered by Large Language Models for Proactive Risk Identification

Jozef Zurada; Reliability Engineering and System Safety.

Spring 2026 Publications

January – April
Believe who you trust: auditor source credibility, PCAOB inspection outcomes, and non-professional investor judgments.

Believe who you trust: auditor source credibility, PCAOB inspection outcomes, and non-professional investor judgments.

Dereck Barr-Pulliam; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
The Urban Equilibrium Effects of Electric Vehicle Tax Credit.

The Urban Equilibrium Effects of Electric Vehicle Tax Credit.

Weihua Zhao; Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics
CAM Reporting for Material M&A Transactions: Evidence from the First Year of AS 3101.

CAM Reporting for Material M&A Transactions: Evidence from the First Year of AS 3101.

Xi Ai & Hilda Carrillo; Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy.
Unpacking the Relationship between Sales Growth and Profitability.

Unpacking the Relationship between Sales Growth and Profitability.

Sergey Anokhin; Strategic Business Research.
), “Safe” Annuity Retirement Products and Possible Future U.S. Retirement Risks, Threats, and Shortfalls

), “Safe” Annuity Retirement Products and Possible Future U.S. Retirement Risks, Threats, and Shortfalls

Tom Lambert; Journal of Economic Issues.
) Predicting Stock Returns of Past-winner Stocks and Bond Returns of Past-loser Stocks with a Stock’s 52-week Price Anchor

) Predicting Stock Returns of Past-winner Stocks and Bond Returns of Past-loser Stocks with a Stock’s 52-week Price Anchor

Chris Stivers; Journal of Banking & Finance. Volume 186.
Equivalence between tying and vertical integration with Pareto-improving foreclosure

Equivalence between tying and vertical integration with Pareto-improving foreclosure

Yong Chao & Babu Nahata; Economic Inquiry.
Practically relevant: Re-evaluating the "relevance problem" through a review of practical turnover recommendations

Practically relevant: Re-evaluating the "relevance problem" through a review of practical turnover recommendations

Carl Maertz; Journal of Management.
Trust and momentum: International evidence

Trust and momentum: International evidence

Ming Shou; Journal of Empirical Evidence.
Aligning Incentives for Social Responsibility: Evidence from Performance-Contingent Equity Awards

Aligning Incentives for Social Responsibility: Evidence from Performance-Contingent Equity Awards

Xudong Fu & Lori Tang; The Financial Review.
The Intersection of Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models, and Mass Spectrometry: Data: Progress and Applications

The Intersection of Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models, and Mass Spectrometry: Data: Progress and Applications

Jozef Zurada; Wires: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
HG-RAG: Hierarchical Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Metabolomics

HG-RAG: Hierarchical Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Metabolomics

Jozef Zurada; KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems.

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