UTC alumni, Joshua Lawson (finance major, 2019) recently co-published the paper titled, “Speculation and Food-Grain Prices”, with his mentors Drs. Rafayet Alam (UTC) and Xiaoli Etienne (West Virginia University). The paper was published in the A-rated journal Applied Economics. The published research is associated with an undergraduate research project Josh completed with Dr. Alam in 2018-2019. This paper previously won the Best Student Paper award at the Academy of Economics…