ISFE Director Dr. Charles Courtemanche presented ISFE Working Paper No. 55 "The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use," co-authored by Chad Cotti, Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Erik Nesson, and Joseph J. Sabia, at the Global Action to End Smoking webinar on August 23rd.
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Annual Report
Current Research
Free Markets and Health Care: Lessons from Welfare Economics
Charles Courtemanche
Click here for the published version in the Southern Economic Journal
The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use
Chad Cotti, Charles Courtemanche, Yang Liang, Catherine Maclean, Erik Nesson, Joseph J. Sabia
Do E-Cigarette Retail Licensure Laws Reduce Tobacco Use?
Charles Courtemanche, Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Caterina Muratori, Joseph J. Sabia
Revisiting the Connection Between State Medicaid Expansions and Adult Mortality
Charles Courtemanche, Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, Daniela Zapata
Click here for the published version in the Southern Economic Journal
In the News
Congratulations to our director Charles Courtemanche and co-authors Yang Liang, Johanna Catherine Maclean, Caterina Muratori, and Joseph J. Sabia on their paper "Do E-Cigarette Retail Licensure Laws Reduce Youth Tobacco Use?" being published online by the Journal of Health Economics.
Op-Ed by Charles Courtemanche, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise, Gatton College of Business of Economics, University of Kentucky
New study by our director Charles Courtemanche and co-authors Jordan Jones, Antonios M. Koumpias, and Daniela Zapata that examines the connection between state Medicaid expansions and adult mortality was featured on Marginal Revolution
Congratulations to VACE's Fall 2022 Monday Night Session Entrepreneurs Bootcamp 1.0 winners! ISFE was proud to provide the prize money for this great competition!
1st Place: Erin Webb/Advosense
2nd Place: Vaugh Holder/Tranquil
3rd Place: Bertin Louis & Tina Ho/Navigating Higher Education
4th Place: Mark Litvin/Revelation Woodworking
5th Place: Demethra Sanders/Be Fly Fitness
Most Recent Video
Coronavirus Economics #7: New study shows government restrictions are stopping COVID-19.
Dr. Charles Courtemanche explains his latest study published in the Health Affairs journal about the effect of stay-at-home orders, business closures and other government measures in the spread of COVID-19.