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Author:

Olsho, Benjamin A

Title:

A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Hollywood Stock Exchange's Forecasting Accuracy and Risk vs. Return Relationships

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Hollywood Stock Exchange
HSX
Prediction Markets
Virtual Markets
Forecasting
Risk vs. Return
Box Office
Movies

File:

Download Olsho_Ben_Final_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

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

Author:

Ingber, Jacob Lee

Title:

A Discussion of the Secondary Patent Market: How Bulk Patent Purchases and Sales Affect Stock Prices

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Patents
Event Study
Equities
Finance

File:

Download Ingber_Jacob_SecondaryPatentMarket.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

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

Author:

Heaphy, Joseph J

Title:

Retirment Account Withdrawal Rates and Market Valuation Levels

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Withdrawal Rate
Asset Allocation
Price to Earnings Ratio
Dividend Yield

File:

Download Heaphy_Joseph_RetirementWithdrawal.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

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

Author:

Mathis, Michael Curtis

Title:

Value Creation and Prominent Shareholder Activists

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

shareholder
activist
activism
icahn
value
creation

File:

Download Value_Creation_and_Prominent_Shareholder_Activists.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Joseph Randall Woolridge, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Zhou, Yunhua

Title:

A Personal Wealth Management Guide for College Students

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Financial Planning
Personal Income Tax
Budgeting
Consumption Smoothing

File:

Download Yunhua_Zhou_CollegeStudentFinancialPlanningFinal.pdfDownload Yunhua_Zhou_Collegestudentfinancialplanning_Excel.xlsx

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Joseph Randall Woolridge, Faculty Reader

Author:

Gillooly, Sean Ryan

Title:

The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) as a Predictor of S&P 500 Volatility and Returns

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

VIX
CBOE
Volatility
S&P 500

File:

Download THESIS_GILLOOLY_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Joseph Randall Woolridge, Faculty Reader

Author:

Ahmed, Tariq

Title:

An Analysis of the Hedge Fund Industry

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

hedge fund
investing
finance
equity
market returns

File:

Download Final_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James Alan Miles, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Joseph Randall Woolridge, Faculty Reader

Author:

Lafata, Jason Michael

Title:

Grameen Bank Replicators: An Analysis of Tulay Sa Pag-unlad, Inc., Pro-mujer, and South Pacific Business Development

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

micro-credit
Grameen Bank
replication
success

File:

Download final_thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Terrence Robert Guay, Thesis Supervisor
James Alan Miles, Thesis Honors Advisor
James Alan Miles, Faculty Reader

Author:

Lally, Katharine Gifford

Title:

Market Beta as a Measure of Risk in the Context of Outlier Events

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Beta
Outliers
Risk
Investments
Portfolio Management

File:

Download Lally_Katharine_marketbetaasameasureofrisk.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

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

Author:

Sandler, Jeffrey Michael

Title:

Evaluating The Performance Of Jim Cramer's Stock Picks

Area of Honors:

Finance

Keywords:

Jim Cramer
Stock Picking
Efficient Market Hypothesis
Random Walk

File:

Download Sandler_Jeffrey_EvaluatingThePerformanceOfJimCramer.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

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