<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>College of Business News</title><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_home.aspx</link><description>The latest news in the College of Business</description><item><title>A minute with Don Fullerton, finance professor &amp; energy policy expert

</title><description>Fullerton discusses the economic and environmental impact of the Keystone XL pipeline</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1886</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1886</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>How Do Energy Policies Affect the Environment?</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, explains the unavoidable interconnections between energy and environmental policies.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1771</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1771</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>"Negative Leakage" Could Be Key to Reducing Carbon Emissions</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, says the fear of any one country raising its own costs of production through a carbon tax, and thus making itself less competitive with its neighbors, is somewhat unfounded.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1600</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1600</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Happy Medium of Tax Collection</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, Jon Davis, professor and head of the department of accountancy, Norma Lauder, director of the ILLINOIS MS Tax Program, Kurt Meier, adjunct lecturer, and Brian Whitlock, adjunct lecturer, each contribute to this story.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1589</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1589</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton's Prediction for Gas Prices</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, is interviewed for his thoughts on the future price of gas.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1562</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1562</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Cheaper Gasoline, or Energy Independence: You Can?t Have Both</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, blogs about the benefits of energy independence.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1529</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1529</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>$4 Fuel the New Norm</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, comments on this story about the effects of higher gas prices.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1519</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1519</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton: Fluctuating Gas Prices Not Unusual</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, is quoted in this story  about the hype of rising gas prices.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1501</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1501</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Questions Ending Tax on Natural Gas</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, expresses his doubt for the effectiveness of ending the state tax on natural gas, a measure pursued by Governor Quinn.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1484</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1484</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Sees Nothing Good About Tax Cheaters</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, blogs about fewer IRS agents and the increased tax gap in America.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1447</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1447</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Energy Independence: A Minute With Don Fullerton</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, discusses energy independence with News Bureau editor Phil Ciciora.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1428</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1428</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Elected VP, AERE</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, was elected to be the vice president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1420</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1420</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton's Choice of Green Cars: 1980 Bonneville</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, blogs about why his 8-cylinder GM vehicle is a green choice.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1391</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1391</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Working on Nobel-Recognized UN Project</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, is working with authors around the world to write the Fifth Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1352</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1352</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Asks, Are U.S. Taxes Too High?</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, blogs about the low U.S. tax rate relative to other developed countries.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1322</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1322</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Says No Short-run Policy Can Impact Gas Prices</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, is quoted in Tribune-Star  story on rising vehicle gas prices.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1211</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1211</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gas Price Fluctuations Not Unusual, Says Fullerton</title><description>Finance Professor Don Fullerton, formerly deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury Department, says real, inflation-adjusted price of a gallon of gas has barely budged over the past five decades.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1173</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1173</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>List of Business Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students-FALL 2010</title><description>The results for the FALL 2010 administration of student ratings of instructors are now available. Results are based on ICES questionnaires.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1148</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1148</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Explains Gas Prices</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, blogs about historic gas prices in real dollars.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1142</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1142</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Says Government Should Take Proactive Steps with Energy</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, believes gas prices will rise again. Though higher pump prices will not "kill" the recovering economy, energy alternatives should be considered.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1131</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1131</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton: Pollution Tax Rebates Not Enough to Protect Low Paid</title><description>Don Fullerton, finance professor, says that using revenue from pollution taxes to lessen its regressiveness on low-wage workers is not enough to offset higher commodity prices and shrunken real wages that would result from such a tax.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1117</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1117</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Identified as Senior Participant of Climate and Energy Policy Center</title><description>Don Fullerton, Gutgsell Professor of Finance and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, has been identified as a senior participant of an NSF-funded climate/energy policy center at the University of Chicago.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1106</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1106</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Asks, ?How Much Should Congress Leave to the Regulators??</title><description>Professor Don Fullerton blogs about current efforts to take power from the EPA and what it could mean for polluters.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1100</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1100</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Comments on Climate Policy Research</title><description>Don Fullerton, professor of finance, notes the importance of a study authored by MIT researchers looking at divergent cost estimates for climate policy.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1094</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=1094</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Center for Business and Public Policy Hosts Expert Panel on Energy Regulation</title><description>Professor Don Fullerton moderated a discussion between Bill Von Hoene Jr., EVP Exelon, Mark Brownstein, deputy director of the Environmental Defense Fund's energy program, and Jon Anda, vice chairman and head of environmental markets for UBS Securities.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=996</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=996</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Comments on Urbana Gas Tax Proposal</title><description>Finance Professor Don Fullerton says its better to have comparable taxes with competing jurisdictions.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=901</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=901</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Gas Prices Unlikely to Rise This Summer (USA Today)</title><description>Finance Professor Don Fullerton gives his perspective on gas prices this summer.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=855</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=855</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Organizes Research Panel on Climate Policy Implementation</title><description>Twenty of the world?s top academic experts on energy and environmental economics will share research on how best to implement possible U.S. climate regulations during a conference for federal policy analysts.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=845</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=845</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton: Summer Gasoline Price Surge Unlikely</title><description>?Barring the unforeseen, prices this summer aren?t going to be much different than they are now,? said Finance Professor and former deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department, Don Fullerton.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=836</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=836</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>2009 ICES "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students" - Draft</title><description>The unofficial "Incomplete List" identifies many great teachers  in the College.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=784</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=784</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton on Carbon Caps and Trade</title><description>Professor Don Fullerton Don Fullerton, a UI economist who specializes in research on energy and environmental policy, covers the basics of a cap and trade economy. Audio is included.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=708</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=708</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Affecting Climate Change</title><description>Don Fullerton and other prominent economists discussed climate change and it is being combated on national and international levels. The event was sponsored by the Center for Business and Public Policy, the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, and the Environmental Change Institute.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=671</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=671</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Panel of Experts Address Economic Aspects of Policy on Climate Change</title><description>Don Fullerton and other prominent economists slated to discuss climate change in Deloitte Auditorium.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=661</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=661</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Keynote Speaker at EU Conference</title><description>Fullerton, an expert on the economic impact of environmental regulations, will outline cost-effective options to reduce carbon emissions at a Nov. 30 global warming conference for European Union tax commissioners in Brussels, Belgium.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=651</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=651</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>CBPP Sponsors Forum on Climate Policy Prospects</title><description>The Center for Business and Public Policy are sponsoring a forum on global warming held in BIF on Nov. 3.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=652</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=652</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton is Keynote Speaker at European Commission Conference</title><description>Professor Don Fullerton has been invited to be the keynote speaker at a conference of European Union tax commissioners in Brussels, Belgium, on November 30th.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=647</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=647</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Discusses Congress' Fight for Pollution Control</title><description>Finance Professor Don Fullerton is interviewed about U.S. and European pollution control measures.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=641</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=641</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton: "The most important thing is an agreement in Copenhagen"</title><description>Last week EU's finance ministers and governors of central banks met in Goteborg, Sweden. Don Fullerton, an expert on taxation and environmental economics, was invited to speak about cost-effective policies for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=627</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=627</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Speaks at Ecofin in Gothenburg</title><description>On Thursday and Friday, the EU's finance ministers and central bank governors will meet in Gothenburg. Don Fullerton, a specialist in, among other things, taxes and environmental economics, are invited to talk about cost-effective policy to reduce carbon emissions.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=618</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=618</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton to Address European Global Warming Conference</title><description>A College of Business environmental policy expert will outline the economic impact of pollution regulations at a meeting of European Union finance ministers that will be a springboard for upcoming negotiations on a new international treaty to combat global warming.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=588</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=588</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Comments on Tough New U.S. Fuel Efficiency Standards</title><description>"A Minute With" interview with expert Don Fullerton.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=555</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=555</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton Advocates Incentive System for Waste</title><description /><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=510</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=510</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Post-Ike Gas Prices Should Level Off</title><description>Hurricane Ike threatened to send already steep gasoline prices soaring, despite a steady decline in crude oil prices, a College of Business finance professor says.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=422</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=422</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Commuters, Employers Rework Practices to Deal with Gas Prices</title><description>In the Chicago Tribune finance professor Don Fullerton comments on how higher gas prices are affecting the workplace.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=397</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=397</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Big Changes Loom If High Gas Prices Hold</title><description>Americans' usual fuel-saving shortcuts could give way to dramatic changes affecting the nation's auto, housing and even job markets if gasoline prices stay at record highs nearing an average $4 a gallon nationwide, a College of Business finance professor says.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=389</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=389</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Fullerton: The Coming Tax Rebates</title><description>More than $150 billion in federal tax rebates will be doled out soon - cash the government hopes will boost the economy. But Don Fullerton, a visiting professor in the finance department, says taxpayers should do what's best for them - even if it means squirreling the money away.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=375</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=375</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Lending Hand</title><description>A woodworker in Guatemala hopes to expand his business. A maid in Ecuador dreams of establishing a craft stand. A young woman in Africa wants to open a salon. None has a credit history, none has collateral, but all have workable ideas and a need for capital.  Microfinance institutions attempt to fill this lending void.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=307</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=307</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item><item><title>Field of Green: Exploring Environmental Economics</title><description>Don Fullerton considers himself an environmentalist, but he readily concedes that like-minded folks may fervently disagree. That's because Fullerton, a visiting professor of finance, is an environmental economist. He believes that the environmental benefits ought to exceed economic costs of any program to reduce or clean up pollution.</description><link>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=310</link><guid>http://www.business.uiuc.edu/publications/news_item.aspx?ID=310</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>