{"id":3997,"date":"2022-05-01T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2022-05-10T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T09:00:24","slug":"april-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/05\/01\/april-news-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"April News RoundUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Engaging, Speculating, Researching, Winning. Celebrating a Successful Spring in our monthly RoundUp. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"page-title\" class=\"article__title\">The Musk Effect<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Student Kheireddine Adeyemi is working on his Stage 3 dissertation -how Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter activity effects financial markets. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4014\/the-musk-effect\">With Musk\u2019s recent bid to acquire Twitter, he\u2019s had a busy week<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Engaging Students through Innovative Teaching<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2988\/cherodian-rowan\">Rowan Cherodian<\/a> teaches Introduction to Time-Series Econometrics to Stage Two Economics students. Recently, he held a meme contest, where the students with the top three memes got free drinks at K-Bar. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3951\/memes-contest-engaging-students-through-innovative-teaching\">See more<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Research News!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/05\/03\/how-does-interoperability-in-mobile-financial-services-affect-financial-inclusion-of-low-income-urban-women-in-a-developing-country\/\">Study<\/a> conducted in Bangladesh should help to improve financial inclusion for low-income urban women in a developing country. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/4001\/interoperability-in-mobile-financial-services\">Read here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Hat trick!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Economics Society have scooped the best Academic Society of the Year award at Kent Union\u2019s Activities Awards for the third year running!<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3949\/hat-trick-the-economics-society-wins-academic-society-of-the-year-for-the-third-year-running\">Congratulations!<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Stock Pitch Challenge<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Stock Pitch Challenge is Kent Invest\u2019s annual flagship event. Members work in teams to create a stock pitch on a particular company they think is going to outperform the market\u2013\u2013generating higher returns than the S&amp;P 500.<strong> Sebastian Loftblad finds out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\/3947\/the-annual-stock-pitch-challenge\">more<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/news\"><strong>Keep up to date with the latest news from the School of Economics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engaging, Speculating, Researching, Winning. Celebrating a Successful Spring in our monthly RoundUp. The Musk Effect Student Kheireddine Adeyemi is working on his Stage 3 dissertation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/05\/01\/april-news-roundup-2\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61662,"featured_media":4032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}