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Author:

Dolente, Christine Marie

Title:

Commodity Futures Pricing: Testing for the Nonzero Premium and Predicting the Future Spot Price

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

commodities
futures contracts
pricing theory

File:

Download Dolente_Christine_CommodityFuturesPricing.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
Timothy T Simin, Faculty Reader

Author:

Gorgonzola, Benjamin David

Title:

Leveraged Buyouts Between 2005-2007

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Leveraged
Buyout
Private Equity

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Chris Muscarella, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hopkins, Matthew Christopher

Title:

Financial Transaction Taxes: A Comparative Study

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Financial
transaction
tax
securities
volatility
revenue
volume
rates

File:

Download Hopkins.Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
Chris Muscarella, Faculty Reader

Author:

Ebeling, Brandon M

Title:

Investing Around Earnings Announcements: An Options-based Trading Strategy

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

finance
earnings announcement
options
straddle
strangle
PEAD
Post earnings announcement drift

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
Timothy T Simin, Faculty Reader

Author:

Foreman, Nikolai Michael

Title:

Event Study Analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility Actions and Firm Stock Return

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Corporate Social Responsibility
CSR
Stock Return
Stock Price
Valuation
Finance

File:

Download Foreman_Nikolai_EventStudyAnalysisofCSRActionsandFirmStockReturn.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Chris Muscarella, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Brandolini, James Brian

Title:

Does Equity Crowdfunding Have Potential in the U.s.?

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

crowdfunding
equity crowdfunding
jobs act
equity
online fundraising

File:

Download EquityCrowdfunding.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Professor Christoph Hinkelmann, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hoffman, Matthew Jean

Title:

Municipal Bond Hedging In A Post-detroit Bankruptcy World

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Municipal
Bonds
Default
Detroit
Bankruptcy
Cross Hedging
Fixed-Income Securities

File:

Download Thesis_FINAL_COPY.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Joel Matthew Vanden, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
James Alan Miles, Faculty Reader

Author:

Mittal, Rishi Kumar

Title:

An Analysis of Natural Gas Commodity Analyst Forecasting and Natural Gas Market Prices

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Finance
Commodity
Forecasting
Natural Gas
Trading Strategy
Ranking

File:

Download Mittal_Rishi_ananalysisofnaturalgascommodityanalystforecastingandnaturalgasmarketprices.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. George David Haushalter, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Kim, Yujin

Title:

Sustainable Finance

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Sustainability
traditional finance
behavioral finance
sustainable finance
sustainability valuation
LEED
the DJSI

File:

Download Honors_Thesis_-_Sustainable_Finance_.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
William Kracaw, Faculty Reader

Author:

Valdivia, Lauren N

Title:

Pricing Methods for American Put Options

Area of Honors:

Interdisciplinary in Finance and Mathematics

Keywords:

Finance
Options
American Put Options
Binomial Pricing Model
Finite Difference Methods
Monte Carlo Simulations

File:

Download LValdivia_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Leonid N Vaserstein, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Victoria V Sadovskaya, Thesis Honors Advisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor