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Author:

Dewey, Robert Benjamin

Title:

Dollarization in Latin America The Cases of Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Dollarization
Latin America

File:

Download THESIS_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Saroj Bhattarai, Thesis Supervisor
James R. Tybout, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Mcconnell, Emily Elizabeth

Title:

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ITS IMPACT UPON POLITICAL INSTABILITY: AN INDEPTH EXAMINATION OF THE ARAB SPRING

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Economic Growth
Political Instability
Arab Spring

File:

Download McConnell_Emily_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James R. Tybout, Thesis Supervisor
Bee Yan Roberts, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Shutt, Allison J

Title:

The Acumen Fund and Development Indicators: Low-cost bednets and impact on health in Tanzania

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

development economics
economics
Tanzania
international economics
health indicators
malaria
Africa
transitional economics

File:

Download Shutt_Allison_TheAcumenFundandDevelopmentIndicators.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James R. Tybout, Thesis Supervisor
Bee Yan Roberts, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Arakali, Shuvya T

Title:

Can Conditional Cash Transfer Programs Be Implemented On A large Scale In India?

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

conditional cash transfer
CCT
India
development economics

File:

Download Arakali_Shuvya_CCTprograms.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Bee Yan Roberts, Thesis Supervisor
Bee Yan Roberts, Thesis Honors Advisor
James R. Tybout, Faculty Reader

Author:

Cadmus, Alexander Jay

Title:

Institutional Art Funding: the Interaction of Governmental and Private Donation

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

institutional arts
public finance
crowding effects
charitable giving

File:

Download cadmus_final_submission.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Stephen Ross Yeaple, Thesis Supervisor
Bee Yan Roberts, Thesis Honors Advisor
James R. Tybout, Faculty Reader

Author:

Lee, Dongkeun

Title:

On decision theory models incorporating the Ellsberg paradox

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Ellsberg paradox
Economics
Microeconomics
Decision Theory
Anticipated Utility
Choquet Integral
Expected Utility

File:

Download Lee_Dongkeun_Ellsberg_paradox.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Kalyan Chatterjee, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor
N Edward Coulson, Faculty Reader

Author:

West, Sara Colleen

Title:

The Financial Impact of a Post-season Playoff in College Football

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

college football
playoff
Bowl Championship Series
BCS
regular season attendance
TV contract revenue
television contract

File:

Download 1-West_Sara_CollegeFootballPlayoff.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Stephen F Ross, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Lorenz, David Andrew

Title:

Predicting the Financial Benefit form Relocating Struggling NHL Franchises to High-Demand Markets

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Sports Economics
Economics
Econometrics
NHL
Hockey

File:

Download Lorenz_David_NHLFinancial.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

N Edward Coulson, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Neely, Dane William

Title:

Unconventional Monetary Policy and Beyond

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Unconventional monetary policy
conventional monetary policy
effectiveness of monetary policy

File:

Download Neely_Dane_unconventionalmonetarypolicy.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Bartell, Nathan Roderick

Title:

R&D Elasticity and Firm Performance: An Empirical Analysis

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

R&D
elasticity
firm performance
production function

File:

Download Bartell_Nathan_RDproductivity.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

James R. Tybout, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Perrotta, Fernanda Analia

Title:

The Burden That Inflation Imposes On Society: The Case Of Argentina

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Seigniorage
Convertibility Plan
Argentina
Hyperinflation
Laffer Curve
Gini Index
Lorenz Curve

File:

Download Perrotta.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Jiang, Huijing

Title:

Corporate Reputation vs Marginal Cost: An Empirical Analysis

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Corporate Reputation
Related Party Trade
Multinational Corporations
Environmental Performance Index
Empirical Analysis

File:

Download Jiang_H_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Stephen Ross Yeaple, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Hite, Kathryn Elaine

Title:

Evaluating Microcredit Using Randomized Controlled Experiments

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

microcredit
economics
randomized controlled experiments
Grameen Bank

File:

Download hite_kathryn_evaluatingmicrocredit.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Bee Yan Roberts, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Ringel, Benjamin Harry

Title:

A Quantitative Analysis of the Use and Efficacy of the Franchise Tag in the National Football League

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

econometrics
treatment regression
NFL
franchise tag
economic analysis
sports
salary cap
STATA
probit

File:

Download BenjaminRingelThesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

N Edward Coulson, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Bryant, Andrew David

Title:

Revisiting the Superstar Externality: Lebron's 'Decision' and the Effect of Home Market Size on External Value

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Economics
Sports Economics
National Basketball Association
NBA
LeBron James
superstar

File:

Download Andrew_Bryant_SHC_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

N Edward Coulson, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Prichard, Stephen Chadwick

Title:

Speculation in the Foreign Exchange Markets Using Intertemperal Empirical Models

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Speculation
Foreign Exchange
Technical Analysis

File:

Download Speculation_in_the_Foreign_Exchange_Markets_Using_Intertemperal_Empirical_Models.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Stephen Ross Yeaple, Thesis Supervisor
David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Tatko, Ryan W

Title:

Cursed Equilibrium Refinements in Sequential Auction Games

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

auctions
game theory
economics
Nash equilibrium

File:

Download MasterThesisFinalI.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

David Shapiro, Thesis Honors Advisor
Vijay Krishna, Thesis Supervisor

Author:

Kannell, Daniel Alexander

Title:

Happiness and Economic Inequality – Evaluating the Effects of National Inequality on Levels of Happiness

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

economics
economic
inequality
happiness

File:

Download kannell_daniel_happinessandeconomicinequality.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

David Shapiro, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Wang, Yuan

Title:

The Efficiency of Prize Money Structure of WTA Tournaments

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

Labor Economics
Sport Economics
Tennis Tournament
Prize Money Structure

File:

Download Wang_Yuan_Honors_Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

David Shapiro, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Jiang, Liyin

Title:

Geographic Heterogeneity of Returns to Education in China

Area of Honors:

Economics

Keywords:

returns to education
geographic heterogeneity
China

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

David Shapiro, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Russell Paul Chuderewicz, Thesis Honors Advisor