Senior Honors Thesis
Writing a senior thesis is an excellent way for students to build upon their economics coursework and pursue research that is meaningful and interesting to them. It also allows students to hone the skills they檝e developed and apply frameworks and knowledge in a way that develops an even greater analytical perspective.
Writing a senior thesis requires organization, planning, and focus. Students interested in writing a senior thesis should consult the Senior Honors Thesis Guidelines. The guidelines document describes the philosophy behind the senior thesis and walks you through the process of selecting a topic, engaging a faculty adviser, and registering for the two-semester senior honors thesis seminar.
Past thesis students have found this experience richly rewarding. Read the testimonials below to learn how the opportunity to work closely with a faculty adviser and to think critically and deeply about a significant intellectual problem of their own selection helped these 51动漫 alumni grow as researchers, analysts, writers and critical thinkers. While a thesis is arguably essential for students who intend to pursue graduate work in economics, it is also incredibly valuable for the majority of thesis students who follow other paths.
Students who are interested in writing a senior thesis should begin the process in the spring of their junior year (identifying a faculty adviser and developing a research idea in late March or early April).聽
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- Senior Honors Thesis guide to
- To see samples of past theses by economics students, please visit the eScholarship page on the .
- Current and past years� thesis topics
Student Testimonials
Current and Past Years� Senior Honors Thesis Topics
Presentations will be in O'Neill 257.聽 We will meet from 8:30-10:15 a.m.聽 Advisers are invited to attend.聽 Each presentation should be about 15-20 minutes in length with some additional time for questions.聽聽
| March 25 | Christopher Walko: 淗ow Legalized Sports Betting Impacts Casinos� (McGowan) Hunter Linton: 淧overty and Peso: The Relationship Between Inflation and Poverty in Contemporary Argentina� (Regan) Maximilian Trulby: 淒issecting the Dead Cat Bounce� (Cox) Sophie Sun: 淎ssessing the Health Impacts of Natural Disasters on the U.S. Population� (Baum) |
| March 27 | Hannah Fuller: 淭he Impact of Newborn Screening on Infant Mortality by U.S. State for Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders� (Sanzenbacher) Solomon Park: 淎n Emotional Market? Analyzing Investor Overreaction to Economic Shocks� (Sanzenbacher) Jinju Park: 淒id Bail Reform Affect Failure to Appear Rates? Exploring Efficacy of Cash Bail in Ensuring Court Hearing Attendance� (Sanzenbacher) John Herrington: 淭he affect of light rail expansion on traffic related health externalities� (Sanzenbacher) |
| April 1 | Martin Brozman: 淔inancial well-being of retirees in Public Retirement Funds exempt from contributing to Social Security� (Rutledge) Anthony Yang: 淏ridges to Early Retirement and Maximizing Social Security Benefits� (Rutledge) Oliver Bernstein: 淗ow advanced hockey analytics explain NHL players� salaries� (Rutledge) Edward Deng: 淣ews Sentiment and Volatility Prediction in the Commodities Market� (Ulusoy / Murphy) |
| April 3 | John Leech: 淧rofit as a function of GDP acceleration� (Ireland) Charles Loeb: 淔iscal Influences on COVID-19 Inflation: Analyzing the Price Level Using the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level� (Ireland) Andrew Baker: 淪overeign Bond Mispricings and Economic Outcomes� (Ireland) Ryane Oswald: 淔rom Cuts to Crisis: Austerity Long-Term Impact on the Pandemic Response in Spain and Italy� (Bejan) |
| April 8 | Kaylyn Eigen: 淒isparities in Affordability of Diabetes Medications: How Price May Affect Quality of Life� (Grubb) Marco Luo: 淩ent Deflation from Vacancy Taxation: Vancouver's Empty Homes Tax� (McCullagh / Grubb) Jonah Liwschitz: 淭he Effects of Universal Preschool on Maternal Employment� (Cichello) Katherine McCaffrey: 淐losing the Gender Wage Gap in Developing Countries: The Impact of Inward FDI on Labor Market Outcomes in Bangladesh� (Cichello) |
| April 10 | Grace Medjo: 淒ata Control Rights and Sludge: A Policy Analysis of the CCPA� (Felter) Harold Wang: 淚mpartial Intergenerational Beneficence as a Source of Professional Meaning� (Liane Young / Stylianos Syropoulos) Jane Guirl: 淭exas TRAP Laws: Are They Trapping Mothers with Unpaid Work?� (Venator) Denis Mulcahy: 淧aying the Citizen-Soldier: Earnings Outcomes for Non-Retiree Veterans entering the Civilian Labor Market� (Ventor) |
| April 15 | Jean-Fran莽ois Filippi: 淓ffects on the Employment and Reservation Wage of Older Workers from the Increase in the Legal Retirement Age in France in 2010� (Quinn) Caroline Morrissey: 淭eacher Labor Market Effects on Student Outcomes� (Quinn) Mary Perez: 淪ocial Security:聽 Is now the time to change a leg in the retirement stool?� (Quinn) Yisi Liu: 淲hy do people prefer anti-social behavior in the group than individually?� (Coffman) |
| March 26 | Braden Kramer: 淎ssessing Initial Impacts of the Great American Outdoors Act on Gateway Community聽Demographics� (Murphy) |
| April 2 | Brock Daylor: 淓xpect The Unexpected: The Impact Of Natural Resource Price Volatility On Governance and Corruption澛�(Sanzenbacher) Adalyn Schommer: 淭he Impact of Test-Optional Admissions Policies for Catholic Colleges and Universities� (Sanzenbacher)聽 Liuying Huang: 淭he Impact of CEO Involvement in the Media Industry on Financial Markets: a Case Study on Elon Musk Twitter Activity on Asset Prices澛�(Cox) Ansel Kufta: 淐an Vitamin D and UV-Exposure Explain Opioid Use澛�(Cox) |
| April 4 | Tyler Smith: 淧ost-Pandemic Inflation: An Analysis of the Causes of the Wide Variety in Inflation Across Countries Following the Covid-19 Pandemic澛�(Ireland) Rona Sun: 淲hat is the impact of the banking crisis on society's trust in the banking system?澛�(Ireland) Sky Lyu: 淯nveiling the Veil of Growth: The Hidden Impact of Neoliberal Economic Reformation on Labor Productivity in Chile from 1973 to 1982澛�(Guerron) Ian Leissner: 淗ow Occupational Exposure to Automation Impacts Wages澛�(Cichello) |
| April 9 | Esther An: 淗as increased聽working mobility post-Covid changed companys' hiring preferences of new grads in Tech, Finance, and Healthcare industries?澛�(Rutledge) Cooper Mae Cavallo: 淪uccess or Failure:聽 Effect of the "Every Student Succeeds Act" on Eighth Grade Reading and Mathematics澛�(Rutledge) Christian DiBiase: 淗ealthcare on the Front Lines: Economic Realities for Nurses Pre, During, and Post COVID-19 in the U.S.澛�(Rutledge) Garrett Domaratzky: 淎 difference-in-difference estimate on the effects of ACA medicaid expansion on ER visits for individuals with poor mental health澛�(Rutledge) |
| April 11 | Yixiao Sun: 淗ow did the entry of Japanese cars in the U.S. market change the U.S. automobiles design and consumer welfare from the 1970s to the 1990s?澛�(Murry) Yanting Wang: 淭he Green Initiative: California's success in reducing GHG emissions澛�(Baum) Yuhao Wang:聽淧ost-COVID Changes in Means澛�(McHugh) Jack Sui:聽淎ssessing the variation in SNAP Participation and Food Insecurity Across States澛�(Anderson) |
| April 18 | Catherine Bennett: 淓mergency: RN Staffing Levels, Vacancies, and Work Satisfaction澛�(Sanzenbacher) Emily Howell: 淪tudent Loans and Financial Literacy: Set-backs or Tools for Success?澛�(Sanzenbacher) Zhichen Zhou: 淎I fever and technology companies� financial performance澛�(Sanzenbacher) Duncan Wang: 淗ow social capital affects the overdose death rates in different races/ ethnic groups澛�(Heyman) |
| April 23 | Kevin Lee: 淔ootball coach discount rates and draft pick trading澛�(Grubb) Aditya Rao: 淯sing Green Bond Spreads to Quantify How United States Clean Energy Expansion Policy Shifts Investment in the European Union: A Difference-in-Difference Approach澛�(Grubb) Nick Traver: 淟earning and Memory Given Most Information is Already Known澛�(Coffman) Eamon O'Malley: 淐harging Ahead: Exploring the Impact of State Incentives on Electric Vehicle Adoption and Emission Reduction Targets澛�(Pideret) |
| April 25 | Thomas Esterbrook: 淏eyond the Debate: A Meta-Analysis on Minimum Wage Effects on Employment� (Quinn) Laura Lu: 淭he聽impact of global conflicts on the ESG performance of companies� (Maxwell) Ben Ragland: 淥verworked and Underloved: Exploring the聽Relationship聽Between聽Overtime聽Work and聽Marital聽Stability� (Venator) Matthew Sher: 淭he Impact of Human-Capital Active Labor Market Policies on Unemployment during the 2020 Coronavirus Recession� (Venator) |
| March 28 | Liam Dietrich: 淥h, SNAP! The Effect of Improved Nutrition Assistance on Enrollment� (Cichello) Emma Mayfield: 淲inners and Losers: Enrollment Rates in Post-Civil War Liberia� (Cichello) Neha Suneja: 淓valuating the Impact of Crop Diversification on Smallholder Farmer Resilience in Nigeria� (Cichello) Jackson Danforth: 淓nvironmental Policies and Their Relative Effectiveness at Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Comparative Analysis� (Sanzenbacher) |
| March 30 | Jesse Wu: 淭hree Year Analysis of Tulsa Remote on U.S. Computer Scientist Migration� (Kazarosian) James Monahan: 淪hould States Legalize Sports Betting?聽 A Cost-Benefit Approach*� (McGowan) Gural Nuriyev: 淭he Deferred Acceptance Algorithm for the New-Graduate Software Engineering Labor Market� (Yenmez) Yingke "Sharon" Chen: 淗ow inflation affects net housing value and pension wealth in the United States� (Baum) |
April 4 Note: Class starts at 8:15 a.m. | Silvia Ianeselli: 淲hat is the elasticity of electric vehicle demand with respect to price and how does it聽 differ between low- and high-income households?� (Sweeney) Yanjing (Helena) Xie: 淚nvestigating the Immediate Economic Impact of the U.S. Government Rhetoric and Threats During the U.S.-China Trade War� (Valchev) Joe Milosh: 淎 Cost Comparison of Clinical and Novel In-Vitro Diagnostic Methods in the Incidental Cardiac Disease Patient Population� (Regan / Bezzerides) Lauren Gillet: 淭he Overeducation of Syrian Immigrants in Jordan� (Sankaran) Thamar (Naika) Jean Laurent: 淢onopolizing Bodies: An economic analysis of Kidnapping for ransom in Haiti� (Sankaran) |
| April 11 | Shijian (Russell) Zhang: 淐ontract Renewal Incentive Effect: Is Contract Year Phenomenon Real in the NBA?� (Grubb) Louis Gleason: 淜nowledge Spillovers and the International Partnership Program for Aerospace* � (Guerron) Jakin Jeong: 淎 Sick Anomaly: Reevaluating the Relationship Between the Economy and the Stock Market in the Pandemic� (Ireland) Chenghan Lu: 淢onetary and Fiscal Policy During Covid*� (Ireland) |
| April 13 | Yujia Shi: 淗ow do the big tech acquisitions impact the venture capital market in the AI industry?� (Murry) Katherine (Jiayu) Yan: 淲hat are the effects of pandemic supply chain disruption in the automotive industry?� (Murry) Julia Curtin: 淭reating Two Epidemics: Mitigating OUD in Prisons with Public Policy� (Wesner) William Crowley: 淯ncertainty in Inflation: What Kind of Landing Are We Heading Towards?� (McHugh) |
April 20 Note: Class starts at 8:15 a.m. | Zhuoran (Grace) Liu: 淚nvisible Gap: Gender Wage Differentials in Modern China� (Rutledge) Will Ortyl: 淐losing the SNAP Gap: Under-Participation in SNAP Among Low-Income College Students� (Rutledge) Grace Wagner: 淏arriers to Build: Procedural Requirements and Housing Development in Greater Boston� (Rutledge) Luke DeMartin: 淪ystematic Behavioral Biases in Major League Baseball Umpiring� (Maxwell) Haolun Huang: 淓xploring Dynamic Pricing in the U.S. Rideshare Industry� (Maxwell) |
| April 25 | Dominic Cischke: 淓RC-20 Cryptocurrency Market Efficiency: Investigating High-Frequency Efficiency and Ether Independence Across The Ethereum Merge� (Sanzenbacher) Katie Garrett: 淢arriage Equality and the Reported LGBT Hate Crimes Rate in the United States� (Sanzenbacher) John Hayfron-Benjamin: �'Hidden diversity'聽 An analysis of income differences between African Americans and Nigerian Americans through the first and second generations� (Sanzenbacher) Aman Sinha: 淚nflation Targeting Venezuela Hyperinflation� (Sanzenbacher) |
| April 27 | Isabelle Bury: 淒eterminants of Recidivism for the Formerly Incarcerated� (Quinn) Nadia Capolino: 淲orking Women: Will the Long-term impacts of Covid-19 be beneficial in the fight for gender equality?� (Quinn) Andrew Pitten: 淲hat Factors Mitigate Adverse Localized Effects of Trade Exposure with China� (Quinn) Yunhui (Sunny) Sun: 淭he impact of Housing Prices on Chinese Fertility Rate: Looking for Possible Solutions to China's Aging Society Problem� (Quinn) |
| April 4 | Yiqing Kuang: 淚mpact of Face Mask Mandates on the COVID-19 Cases in the United States� (Baum) Caitlin Hearty: 淒oes increased access to primary education decrease economic inequality in Costa Rica?� (Cichello) |
| April 6 | Joe Lamoureux: 淚s a Helping Hand Better than an Invisible One? The Effect of Helpfulness on Employee Engagement� (Cox) John Dempsey: 淧re-Health Track Educational Disparities and Impact on Future Labor Market Outcomes� (Sankaran) Shaokai Wang: 淭he Invisible Hand: Political Cycles, Economics, and the Stock Market� (Ireland) |
| April 11 | Grace Tymann: 淒oes Minimum Wage Influence Union Votes?� (Sanzenbacher) Augusta Imperatore: 淚s Inclusionary Zoning Creating the Inclusive Communities it Intends?� (Sanzenbacher) Allison Pyo: 淔rom One-Room Schools to Graded Schools: Analyzing the Shift in Education During the Mid-1800s� (Rutledge / Higgins) |
| April 13 | Natalie Almonacid: 淭he Great Unequalizer: How State Responses to COVID-19 Differently Impact the Unemployment Rate of Racial and Ethnic Groups� (Sanzenbacher) Dylan Frick: 淗ow Allowing the US to Negotiate Prescription Drug Prices Would Impact Innovation� (Sanzenbacher) Ryan Ollestad: 淚mproving Microloans in Developing Countries with Blockchain Technology� (Regan) |
| April 20 | Rita LaPlante: 淯nderstanding Green Gentrification in Boston: A GIS Approach� (Maxwell) Eleana Tsiamtsiouris: 淒oes the Type of Lawyer Representation Really Matter? Exploring the Differences in Defendant Outcomes between Private Retained Counsel and Private Court-appointed Counsel in Criminal Cases� (Maxwell) Ryan Cattich: 淓stimating the Negative Externalities of Disinformation� (Wesner) |
| April 25 | Maxwell Vogliano: 淓conomic Welfare: How Various Ethical Underpinnings for Calculation Affect Welfare Policy� (Quinn) Chris Bunner: 淭he Social Effect of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment Subsidies� (Sweeney) Bryan Kim: 淭he ULCC Effect: How Does The Entry of Ultra-Low Cost Carriers Impact Airfares of Incumbent Airlines?� (Murry) |
| April 5 | Eugene Park: 淭he Relationship between Cycles and Imbalances in the Market� (Murphy) Justin Lee: "Cross-Border M&A in Emerging Markets: Differences in Innovation Spillovers by Industry" (Murphy) Yin "Elaine" Huang: 淭ech Hubs and Youth Employment: Evidence from Kenya� (Cox) |
| April 7 | Minda Zhu: "The Effect of Changes in Tariff Policy Against China Under the Trump Administration on Domestic Unemployment in the U.S� (Sanzenbacher) Matt Ventrella: 淓xamining the Effects of Political Spending by Teacher Unions on Public Pension Funding� (Sanzenbacher) Hannah Wolfe: 淓xploring the Effects of Economic Insecurity on Deaths of Despair� (Sanzenbacher) |
| April 12 | Rodrigo Ibarra Gallardo: 淭he Effect of Criminal Reform on Feminicides in Mexico� (Rutledge) Brendan Curry: 淭he Volatility of Employment and Income of Professional Musicians before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic� (Rutledge) Jason Boyle: 淎n Analysis of Hospital Revenues During the Course of the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak in Massachusetts (Richardson) |
| April 14 | Xingrui "Victor" Liu: 淧redicting Fed Decision on Adjusting Federal Funds Rate� (Ireland) Suren Akopyan: 淚nvestigating the Reasons Behind the Underperformance of Value stocks in the Recent Decades� (Ireland) Abbie Schlageter: "Examining the Environmental Kuznet Curve in Canada Transport Sector" (Maxwell) |
| April 19 | Yuchuan "Grace" Peng: 淯ncovering Online Retailing: Glimpsing into the Era post- COVID� (Maxwell) Matt Kraft: 淪treakiness in Sports: Do Individual Players Actually Become 楬ot� or 楥old�?� (Maxwell) Will Peters: 淭he Vaporfly Effect: Innovation or Omitted Variables?� (Maxwell) |
| April 21 | Julia Kraus: 淕ender Quotas and Firm Performance: Evidence from Germany� (Cichello) Max Bahar: 淗ow Does Parental Migration Affect the Long Term Labor Market Outcomes of Left Behind Children?� (Cichello) Micheal Griglak: 淭he Effects of Venezuelan Migrants in the Colombian Informal Sector� (Cichello) |
| April 26 | Yudong "Steve" Zhang: 淭he US IPO market during COVID-19� (Chahrour) Dylan Agema: "Rolling the DICE on the Doughnut: The Viability of Ethical Growth" (Akin-Olcum) Geoffrey O'Malley: "The Economic Impact of Pandemics" (Quinn) |
| March 30 | Alex Eishingdrelo: 淥ffensive Play Calling in the NFL: Does the Run set up the Pass?� (Murphy) William Johnson: 淒o Retirement Savings Plans Help Small Businesses Attract and Retain Quality Employees?� (Sanzenbacher) Jill Cusick: 淓valuating the Use of Behavioral Nudging as a Policy Tool� (Cichello) |
| April 1 | Vojtech Machytka: 淐ost Effectiveness Analysis of Aspiration Therapy� (Richardson) Liam Cleary: 淧rimary Care Risk Score Coding Effect on Diabetic A1c levels and Other Healthcare Disparities� (Richardson) Miranda McDonald-Stahl: 淓valuating Addiction-Recovery Services and Barriers to Coverage Among Immigrant Populations in Boston� (Regan) |
| April 6 | Matthew Lynch: 淭he Impact of Student Debt on College Major Decisions� (Erbil) Joshua Jiang: 淓xamining Factors Predicting Recessions� (Ireland) Peixuan Huang: 淓valuating the Effectiveness of Financial Adjustment to External Imbalances� (Valchev) |
| April 15 | Michelle Kondratiev: 淭he Relationship Between State Minimum Wage and Educational Attainment� (Sanzenbacher) Leonid Rempel: 淢onetary Policy in Virtual Economies� (Chahrour) Ziyu Fan: 淐osts of Public Transportation and its Implications, a Gas Consumption Perspective� (Sweeney) |
| April 22 | Kate Peaquin: 淓xploring Impacts of Sectarian Violence on Retirement Outcomes in Northern Ireland� (Rutledge) Cole Cassady: 淭he Effects of Changes in Hospital Profitability due to the Affordable Care on Healthcare Sector Wages� (Rutledge) Sherty Huang: 淢etropolitan Migration and Effects on Minority Communities� (Cox) |
| April 27 | Noah Jussila: 淣otions of Substituability in Matching Markets� (Yemnez) Jeong Yeon Cho: 淣ash equilibrium analysis of the UK University Market� (Yemnez) Zoe Greenwood: 淟abor Market Discrimination against Ethiopian Israelis: What role does race play?� (Cichello) |
| April 1 | Oliver Boucher: 淭he Effect of International Political Risk on Government Bond Pricing� (Murphy) Crystal Tian: 淚mpacts of Patent Expiration: Prescription Drug Price and Drug Utilization under Medicare Part D� (Richardson) |
| April 3 | Bianca Scharkowski: 淢inimum Wage in Seattle Washington 2016 - 2018: What are the True Effects of this Policy Change?� (Maxwell) Elena Tori: 淓ffects of Women Education on Society in Developing Countries� (Maxwell) |
| April 8 | Margaret Andersen: 淭he Impact of Domestic Violence on Children Health and Educational Outcomes in Uganda� (Cichello) Jason Barreira: 淚mpact of NFL Risk Aversion on Win Maximization� (Maxwell) Jack Hammond: 淭anking in the NBA� (Maxwell) |
| April 17 | Claire Driscoll: 淎ttitudes Concerning Immigration in Post-Communist Europe� (Valchev) Nicholas Bergeron: 淣ew Hampshire and Vermont: Differences in the 淗ub and Spoke� Model of Opioid Treatment� (McGowan) Conor Sheehy: 淪peculative Asset Bubbles & Adaptive Expectations� (Petersen) |
| April 24 | Xinyi Deng: 淧re-Holiday Equity Market Anomalies in Mainland China and Hong Kong� (Ireland) Ariana Kishfy: 淭he Subprime Mortgage Crisis and its Effect on Geographic Mobility� (Rutledge) Matthew Fernbach: 淧redicting and Understanding the Effects of Automation on The Labor Market� (Ekmekci) |
| April 29 | Sydney Apple: 淗ousehold Bargaining in the Middle East� (Olivetti) Christy Verhoog: 淎nalyzing the Impact of Nigeria Agricultural Import Policy on Household Welfare� (Anukriti) Gwyneth Miner: 淩eaping What You Sow: Conflict and Seasonal Unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa� (Nyshadham) |
| May 1 | Melanie Qing: 淓ffects of Medicaid Expansion on Access to Prescription Drugs� (Grubb) Lydia Cao: 淧rice Elasticity and Product Substitutability in U.S. Television Advertising Market� (Mortimer) Andrew Kuna: 淔actors Affecting Prison Recidivism� (Quinn) |
| April 4 | Elizabeth Kopec: 淪ustainable Intergenerational Utility� (Segal) Andrea Yepez: 淯nderstanding Differing Effects of the Oil Price Drop on Ecuador and Colombia� (Murphy) |
| April 9 | Mark Sullivan: 淭he Big Shortfall: The Impact of Pension Deficits on Municipal Bonds� (Rutledge) Francisco Ruela: 淭he Impact of Child Earnings on Retirement Expectations� (Sanzenbacher) Kyle Waters: 淭he Impact of Geography and Startup Team Background in Venture Capital Funding� (Cox) |
| April 18 | John Hennig: 淭he Effect of Quantitative Easing on Yields and Asset Prices in Financial Markets� (Ireland) Christophe Bernier: 淒eveloping a Win Probability Model for Hockey� (Maxwell) Amy Jin: 淓ffects of Gender on Crowdfunding Behaviors� (Maxwell) |
| April 23 | Charles Rogan: 淧rivate Label Entry Effect on National Brands and Food Prices� (Grubb) Jung Ho Lee: 淚s the Korean Gender Gap Understated? Evidence from Korean Labor and Income Panel Study� (Olivetti) Melissa Lei: 淭he Effect of the One-Child Policy to Two-Children Policy in China on International Immigration� (Anukriti) |
| April 25 | Shuang Li: 淎nalysis of Monetary Union Failures� (Ireland) Tianhang Sun: 淭he Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Health in California from 1990 to 2016� (Maxwell) Erica Lindsey: 淭he Misguided War on Processed Food: How and How Not to Fix the American Obesity Crisis� (Quinn) |
| April 30 | Michelle Kang: 淪tepping Toward Solar: The Impact of Tier Prices on Solar PV System Size� (Lewbel) Christian Wilson: 淚mpact of Retail Clinics On Prices for Common Physician Services� (Richardson) Audrey Setiadarma (Richardson) |
| March 30 | Russ Barnard: 淭he Implications for the Modern Phillips Relationship� (Murphy) Xufei Shen: 淎 Study of Different Factors Affecting Technology Transfer of CDM Projects in China� (Sweeney) Amin Gholizadeh: 淚ncreasing Market Efficiency Through Machine Learning� (Murphy) [Graduated December 2016] |
| April 4 | Owen Lyons: 淲hat Drives Renewable Energy Consumption?� (Tresch) Christopher Dalla Riva: 淭he Effect of Airbnb on New York City Hotels� (Tresch) Connor Tobin: 淭he Legal, Economic, and Financial Motivations Behind Corporate Tax Inversions� (Tresch) |
| April 6 | Xiaojie Li: 淎n Evaluation of the Stock Connect Programs in China� (Baum) Ana Grisanti: 淰enezuela: Its Fiscal Challenges and some Policy Solutions� (Baum) Carolyn Ruh: 淭he Impact of Mobile Money on Savings in Uganda� (Anukriti) |
| April 11 | James Ledoux: 淭he Law of Concentrations of Crime at Place� (Maxwell) Nicolas Barker: 淏reakdown and Analysis of Uber's Surge Pricing through Price Discrimination Theory� (Maxwell) |
| April 18 | Carlie Ladda: 淢-Pesa: The Effects of Mobile Banking on Small Businesses in Kenya� (Cichello) Greta Ritzenthaler: 淐hild brides: The Causes and Repercussions of Early Marriage for Women in Uttar Pradesh, India� (Cichello) Lily Peng: 淕endered Effects: Analyzing the Employee/Supervisor Relationship in the IT and Healthcare Industries� (Olivetti) |
| April 20 | Byeol (Ellie) Kim: 淔rom Education to Medical Practice: An Analysis of American Healthcare Spending� (Regan) Kanghun (Tim) Lee: 淭he Economic Assimilation of Migrants and Refugees in Germany� (Wagner) Kirsten Hedde: 淓ducation Returns in Tanzania� (Nyshadham) |
| April 25 | Ryan Schnoor: 淓conomic Impact of Hosting the Olympics� (Quinn) Emma Dawley: 淒emography in Crisis: A Cohort Analysis of Wealth and Retirement Preparedness� (Rutledge) James Ahle: 淲elfare in Retirement: A Cross-Country Analysis� (Rutledge) |
| April 7 | Madison Meehan: 淒ivision 1 Women's Soccer: Predicting NCAA Tournament Results� (Maxwell) Hyung Lee: 淎nalysis of the EU Emissions Trading System� (Tresch) Thomas Petricone: 淓xpected Education and Income Earning Ability: Determinants and Distributions� (Tresch) |
| April 12 | Andrew Ferdowsian: 淎 Costly Signaling Model� (Yoeli) Jeffrey Klofas: 淗edge Funds and Financial Crises: 2007-2009 Performance Characteristics� (Ireland) Samantha Pinsak: 淓verything is not Sawa Sawa: Abuse and Informal Employment in Kenya� (Erbil) |
| April 14 | Maria Boria: 淗uman Trafficking and Natural Disasters: An Empirical Analysis� (Anukriti) John Bagamery: 淎 Hypothetical Universal US Sports Betting Market: Modeling the US Market Using Australian Panels� (McGowan) |
| April 19 | Sarah Black: �Superstar Effect on Professional Baseball Players' Salaries� (Maxwell) Lifeng Chen: � The Impact of Medicaid on Health: Evidence from the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment� (Maxwell) Eduardo Karotsieris: 淎ugmenting the Relative-Strength Momentum-Investing Strategy: Implications for the Efficience Markets Hypothesis � (Maxwell) |
| April 21 | Andrew Lee: 淢onetary Policy in Zero Rate Environments� (Murphy/Schenck) Bradley Gazdag: 淪elf-Checkout in Retail Costs� (Grubb) Peter Stein: 淭he Demand for Advertising on Television� (Mortimer) |
| April 7 | Julia Gorman: 淟eglislative Staff Size and Government Spending� (Murphy) Joe Marin: 淐onvergence in the EU� (Murphy) Tony Freiji: 淐ollege Graduation Rates and College Sports� (Murphy) |
| April 9 | Giuliana Zaccardelli: 淭he Market for Prescription Drugs: A Case Study of COX-2 Inhibitors� (Regan) Andrew Millette: 淭he Impact of Population Characteristics on the Effectiveness of United States Health Care Exchanges� (Regan) |
| April 14 | Andrew Skaras: 淟ong-term Interest Rates in the Euro Zone� (Petersen) George Jiranek: 淐anadian-U.S. Border Effects on Pricing in the Gasoline Market� (Strasser) Paul Davey: 淭he Economic and Cultural Impact of Germany's Hartz IV Reforms� (Beauchamp, Economics and Resler, German Studies) |
| April 16 | Steven Wagner: 淧rivatization of Prisons� (McGowan) Anders Grorud: 淧rimary Care and Walmart� (Cichello) Jaime Fellers: 淔inancial Education and Microfinance� (Cichello) |
| April 21 | Angela Petrone: 淗ealth Care Reform in China� (Rutledge, Li) Daniel Neagu: 淚mpact of Mergers and Acquisitions in Pharmaceuticals on Drug Innovation, Healthcare Costs, and Labor Markets� (Grubb) John Beyer: 淧ay for Delay� (Grubb) |
| April 23 | Sean Dvorak: 淧eer Effects in the NHL� (Maxwell) Clara Dawley: 淭he Oregon Health Experiment: The Effect of Health Insurance on Public Health� (Maxwell) Lea Oriol: 淓nvironmental Regulation and Innovation� (Maxwell) |
| April 28 | Sean McBride: 淯ber and Taxi Medallions� (Quinn) Collin Anderson: 淭V Ads and Competing Firms� (Mortimer) Trevor Graney: 淒ivestiture in an Experimental Framework of Merger Evaluation� (Mortimer) |
| April 10 | Alison Wawrzynek: 淓ntrepreneurship in Post-Reunification Germany� (Baum) Jordan Kelleher: 淧redicting Pay-Per-View Numbers for UFC Events� (McGowan) John Morrison: 淭he 2008 Financial Crisis: Deregulation Impact on Ethical Behavior� (McGowan) |
| April 15 | Brandt Davies: 淓xplaining Trends in American Inequality� (Tresch) Shawn Quinn: 淐ongestion Tax in New York City: A Progressive or Regressive Tax? (Tresch) |
| April 22 | Nicolas Doering: 淐onsumption and Happiness� (Beauchamp) |
| April 24 | Caitlin Hegarty: 淢isreported Data and Money Demand: The Case of Argentina� (Ireland) John Sherman: 淭he Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and Speculative Bubbles: A Theoretical Analysis of Divergence in Mainstream Economic Thought� (Petersen) |
| April 9 | Adam Rohde: 淒o Consumers Overweight Energy and Food Prices in Expectations of Inflation?� (Murphy) Eric Parolin: 淔iscal and Monetary Policies over the Political Cycle� (Murphy) |
| April 11 | Colleen Sinnott: 淭he Medical Brain-Drain in Sub-Saharan Africa� (Cox) Kevin Morris: 淩emittance Flows to Latin America� (McGowan) |
| April 16 | Daniel Adams: 淲ho's to Gain, and Who's to Blame: The Expected Value of Strikes and Lockouts in Professional Sports Leagues� (Maxwell) |
| April 18 | Tian Tan: 淩ole of Capital Controls in A vs. H Share Discount� (Dvir) Elizabeth Raymond: 淐hild Labor in India: Education and Its Effects� (Fulford) Ace Pidoriano: 淪ocial Media and Stock Market Movements� (Maxwell) |
| April 23 | Anne Pemberton: 淕overnment Regulation in the Cell Phone Industry� (Gollop) Andrew Choi: 淓ffects of Taxation on the Income Distribution� (Tresch) Ryan Giannotto: 淭he Economic Costs of Remediating Dyslexia: A Cost-Benefit Analysis to the Individual and Society� (Strasser) |
| April 25 | Katherine McKenna: 淕lobal Housing Booms and Bubbles� (Petersen) Garred Greenberg: 淗ealth Care Reform� (Kraus) Roger Larach: 淒eterminants of Mergers and Acquisitions in Latin America� (Taillard) |
| April 10 | John Anderson: 淭he Role of Governance in Explaining Income Differences Across Countries� (Murphy) Mark Cloutier: 淩ethinking the Phillips Curve: A Study of Recent Inflation Dynamics in the G-7� (Murphy) Ross Tremblay: 淣FL Ticket Demand: The Movement of Prices in the Secondary Market� (Maxwell) |
| April 12 | Mike Fernandes: 淓xcitement Factors in Team Success: A Comparison Across Major Professional Sports Leagues� (Murphy) Steven Schmitt: 淧rivate Equity Investment in Brazil: Interest Rates and Other Key Determinants of Dealflow� (McGowan) |
| April 17 | Gabe Stacy: 淭he Business Cycle, the Technology Bubble, and the 楴ew Economy� of the 1990� (McGowan) Mark Zimowski: 淭he Effect of Rising College Tuition Costs on College Demographics� (McGowan) Kieran Mara: 淎 Statistical Analysis of Municipal Bond Yield Anomalies� (Petersen) |
| April 19 | Hanyin Cheng: 淧seudo - Endowment Effect in Penny Auctions� (Maxwell) Margaret Connolly: 淢id-Level Providers: Limiting the Trade-Off between Quality and Cost in Health Care� (Maxwell) Ben Stroud: 淓ffects of High-Frequency Trading on Intraday Volatility of DJIA Components� (Maxwell) |
| April 24 | Sam Hocking: 淢oney and Banking with Chinese Characteristics� (Ghironi) Tara Sullivan: 淭he Political Economy of Monetary Disunion� (Ghironi) John Maney: 淏ank Liquidity during the 1893 Panic and Other Financial Crises� (Fulford) |
| April 26 | Lauren Marra: 淭he Effectiveness of Post-Crisis U.S. Government Policy: A Look at Prices Across Asset Markets� (Ireland) Ryan DiStefano: 淓xamining the Economic Impact of Patent Trolls and Patent Infringement Litigation� (Mortimer) Collin Currao: 淧otential Benefits of Legalizing Internet Gambling� (McGowan) |
| April 7 | Frances Schwiep: 淭he Performance of Ex-Offenders in the Labor Market� (Maxwell) Ashley Le Zhang: 淢oral Hazard in Post Financial Crisis Refinance� (Maxwell) Sjur Hoftun: 淭he Repercussions of Title IX on Small-Time Men's Sports� (Maxwell) |
| April 12 | Sean Macdonald: 淎llocating Scarce Resources: A Look Inside the NFL Salary Cap� (Maxwell) Chanqing Huang: 淚s the U.S Trade Deficit to China Caused by Renminbi Undervaluation?� (Dvir) |
| April 14 | Rob Galligan: 淎merican Wheat Subsidies Effects on World Exports� (McGowan) Cliff Baratta: 淭he Effects of Fair Trade on Household Incomes for Coffee Farmers� (McGowan) Nicholas Franco: 淢icrofinance and Growth in Latin America� (McGowan) |
| April 19 | Alvaro Zapatel: 淢icrofinance and Property: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Development in Peru and Guatemala� (McGowan) Michael Gordon: 淓xamining the Sources and Costs of Funding Urban Mass Transit: A Case Study of Six Major Urban Transit Systems� (McGowan Kevin Schuster: 淭he Status and Determinants of Women's Health in America� (McGowan) |
| April 26 | Lesley Zhixing Huang: 淐ost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs: Demand-Side Management (DSM) Future Role in Energy Markets And Feasibility of DSM-technology Transfer to China and Eastern Europe� (Fulford) Claire Ruffing: 淒etermined to Hope: A Comparative Policy Analysis of Microfinance in Africa� (Fulford) Kathleen Iannone: 淕reen Skies: Effects of Environmental Taxation on the U.S. Domestic Airline Industry� (Gollop) |
| April 28 | Daniel Belton: 淭he Credit Market During the Financial Crisis� (Baum) Luke Fernandes: 淐omparative Analysis of Exchange Rate Pass Through in Large versus Small Economies� (Strasser) Evan Waters: 淭he Financial Crises: An Event-based Investigation of Inflation Risk Premiums� (Ireland) |
| April 15 | Kevin Walton: "The Mystery of Governance: Its Direct and Indirect Impact on Economic Growth" (Murphy) James Mack: "The Resource Curse and Macroeconomic Policy" (Murphy) Cecelia McDonald: "When the Tide Goes Out: Executive Compensation, Leverage, and Firm Performance in a Recession" (Petersen) |
| April 20 | Kyle Butler: "An Analysis of Gambling Expansion in Massachusetts: Structure and Payoffs" (McGowan) Jonathan Pike: "The Behavioral Economics of Energy Efficiency Measures" (McGowan) Steven Twomey: "The State of the Beer Excise Tax: An Examination of States' Motivations for Excise Taxation Policies on Beer" (McGowan) |
| April 22 | Joseph Duggan: "The Problem of Abortion: A Social Choice Analysis" (Segal) Michael Stork: "A Gatekeeper's Guide to Economic Evidence in Tying Law" (Ireland) Vishal Mahadkar: "The Feldstein and Horioka Puzzle: A Mark of Financial Strength and Opportunity, Not Immobility" (Strasser) |
| April 27 | Michael Polark: "A Structural Break in the Colombian Coca Market" (Dvir) Andrew Steck: "Examining the Role of Risk Appetite in a Financial Economy" (Petersen) Jeffery Zhang: "Fiscal Policy Coordination after a Financial Crisis" (Ghironi) |
| April 29 | Ryan Beck: "Effects of Environmental Regulation on Innovation Decisions" (Konishi) Jason Adams: "The NBA's Revenue Sharing Scorecard: Determinants of Financial Success for Small Market Franchises" (Maxwell) Sarah Wiewel: "Is the 51动漫S Worth All the Fuss? The Impact on Revenues if Division I-A College Football Implemented a Post-Season Playoff System" (Maxwell) |
| April 7 | Trevor Stuart: "Corporate Governance and its Effects on Shareholder Returns" (Petersen) Discussant: Andrew Straub |
| April 14 | Andrew Straub: "How Coupled are Emerging Markets with Developed Markets?" (Petersen) Jeff Sun: "Non-Normal Distributions for Portfolio Returns" (Baum) Discussants: Joy Batra and Tom Quan |
| April 16 | Joy Batra: "Why Do Mutual Funds Advertise?" (Murphy) Tom Quan: "American Tribal Religion: An Analysis of Tribal Isolationism in the Fan Bases of the Four Major U.S. Sports Leagues" (Maxwell) Discussants: Trevor Stuart and Jeff Sun |
| April 21 | Michelle Lamy: "Non-Market Contributions to Output Across Countries" (Seitz) Ryan O'Neil: "The Effect of Women's Education on Growth" (Seitz) Discussants: Jeff Renshaw and Lauren Evangelista |
| April 23 | Jeff Renshaw: "Solar Power: Electricity Generation and Government Incentives" (Dalton/Gollop) Lauren Evangelista: "The Effect of Ethanol Use on the Prices of Corn and Gasoline" (Gollop) Discussants: Michelle Lamy and Ryan O'Neil |