Economics
In the 2007-2008 academic year the Economics Department began awarding one level of Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the highlighted titles has been deposited in Swem Library.
Key:
- Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members
2019-2020
- Cheng Chen, "Rust Belt City Revitalization: Estimating the Effects of Input Stock on Post-Recession Economic Recovery of 51 Rust Belt Cities" (Honors)
Thomas LaSalvia + Donald Campbell, Jungping Shi - Renee Garrow, "Health Effects of Spousal Caregiving Among Elderly Americans" (Honors)
Jennifer Mellor + Peter McHenry, Katie Lopresti - Owen Giordano, "The Impact of the 1981 Automobile Voluntary Export Restraint on Commuting Zone Level within the United States" (Honors)
John Lopresti + Nate Throckmorton, Rani Mullen - Ethan Harrison, "Modeling Movement: A machine-learning approach to track migration routes after displacement" (Honors)
Ariel BenYishay + Dan Runfola, Philip Roessler - Lincoln Hartnett, "An Empirical Study of Bicycle Sharing Systems Using a Product Diffusion Context" (Honors)
Thomas LaSalvia + Rui Pereira, Ron Smith - Madeleine Yi, "The Overrepresentation of Female Students in For-Profit Higher Education" (Honors)
Peter McHenry + David Feldman, Katie Lopresti - Henry Young, "The Legacy of State Farms on Ethiopia’s Spatial Structural Transformation" (Honors)
Admasu Shiferaw + Phillip Roessler, Berhanu Abegaz
2018-19
- Adam Abate, "On Macroeconomic Nowcasting and Forecasting with Satellite Imagery and Convolutional Neural Networks" (Honors)
Matthew Klepacz + John Lopresti, Martin White - James Bolard, "Interactions Between an Education Polygenic Score and SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood"
Peter Savelyev + Peter McHenry, Elyas Bakhtiari - Emily Martell, "Comparison of Global Solution Methods to a Zero Lower Bound Model" (Honors)
Nathaniel Throckmorton + Martin Rolek, Zhao Han, Donald Campbell - Xiangwen Sun, "The Effects of Tax Revenue Changes on Economic Growth"
Carl Moody + Zhao Han, Guannan Wang
2017-18
- Robert O'Gara, "The Importance of STEM: How Rust Belt Universities can Drive Economic Growth by Supporting High-technology Industry" (Honors)
John Parman + John McGlennon, Peter McHenry
2016-17
- Brandon Posner, "The Value of Statistical Life for College Students in the Context of Death by Homicide" (Honors)
Tatyana Kuzmenko + Jennifer Mellor, Joel Schwartz
2015-16
- Alyssa Brown, "The Compensating Wage Differential for the Risk of Injury" (Honors)
Peter McHenry + Caroline Hanley, John Lopresti - Collin Jones, "Oil Shock Effects and the Business Cycle" (Honors)
Lance Kent + Robert Hicks, Ross Iaci, Nathaniel Throckmorton
- James Ryan, "A Historical Examination of Creative Destruction, Turnover Rate, and New
Technology Based Firms in the Context of the Financial Times US 500 List" (Honors)
William Hausman + John Lopresti, Ron Rappaport
2014-15
- Jake Schneider, "The Middle Institutions Trap: A Parabolic Association Between Institutions and Income for OPEC Countries" (Honors)
Lance Kent + Till Schreiber, John Lopresti and Fahad Bishara - Carolyn Shira, "The Right Fit: Improving the Algorithm that Matches Students to Colleges Based on Test Scores" (Honors)
Donald E. Campbell + Bob Archibald and Rex Kincaid - Andrew Turscak, III, "Payoffs, Probabilities, and Preferences: Relative Risk Aversion Across Treatments of Multiple Payoff Structures" (Honors)
Lisa Anderson + Carl Moody and Lisa Szykman
2013-14
- Daniel Carlen, "Cooperation in a Repeated Public Goods Game with a Probabilistic Endpoint" (Honors)
Lisa Anderson + Rob Hicks, Christopher Freiman - Christopher Pickett, "An Agent-Based Network Simulation Model for Comprehensive Stress Testing and Understanding Systemic Risk" (Honors)
Lance Kent + Alfredo Pereira, Till Schreiber, John Merrick
2012-13
- James Harkrader Jr. "Okun's Law Across the Business Cycle: New Evidence on the Sources of Asymmetries" (Honors)
Rui Pereira + Carl Moody, Tanujit Dey
2011-12
- Amy Filipek, "Current Account Determination in the Eurozone" (Honors)
Till Schreiber + Olivier Coibion, Claire Rosenfeld - David Fisher, "Do Forecasters Know the Slope of the Phillips Curve?" (Honors)
Olivier Coibion + Till Schreiber, John Boschen
2010-11
- Taylor Kaye Porter, "Stuffing the Mattress: An Experiment on Risk and Bank Runs" (Honors)
Lisa Anderson + Beth Freeborn, Katherine Guthrie - Eric Robinson, "Start-Up Grants to Unemployed Immigrants in Germany: A Means to Reach Employment Parity?" (Honors)
Eric Jensen + Clay Clemens, Peter McHenry Samanthe Tiver, "A Closer Look at Nonprofit Evaluation" (Honors)
Robert Archibald + Monica Griffin, Melissa McInerney
2009-10
- Bradley Howard Akin, "Shall-Issue Laws and the Structure of Crime Data" (Honors)
Carlisle Moody + Olivier Coibion, Graham Ousey - Saika Shaolin Belal, "Motivation of Remittances and the Potential for Diaspora Philanthropy: Empirical Studies of Rural Bangladesh, and the US-Bangladeshi Diaspora" (Honors)
Eric Jensen + Arnab Basu, Rani Mullen
2008-09
- Daniel Byler, "Investigations into Alternative Sources of Disturbance and Bias in the Implied Volatility Surface" (Honors)
Carl Moody + Alfredo Pereira, David Dessler
- Bryan Callaway, "A Characterization of Optimal Strategies in a Reciprocal Product Dumping Environment" (Honors)
Arnab Basu
- Stephen Jensen, "Structural Change, Diffusion of Technology, and Heterogeneity of Economic Activities" (Honors)
Berhanu Abegaz + Till Schreiber, Brett Rushforth
- Jonathan Eggleston,"Decentralization and Corruption: A Model of Interjurisdictional Competition and Weakened Accountability" (Honors)
Berhanu Abegaz + Melissa McInerney, Paula Pickering
2007-08
- Luke Godwin-Jones, "Augmented Pivotal Mechanism" (Honors)
Donald Campbell + Sarah Stafford, Charles Johnson - Matthew Hanson, "The Economics of Roadside Bombs" (Honors)
Carlisle Moody + Martin Schmidt, PhillipDe Camp - You-Suk Kim, "Optimal Frequency of Introducing a New Edition of a Textbook and the Structure of the Secondhand Market" (Honors)
Donald Campbell + Robert Archibald, Rex Kincaid (defended December 2007) - Lauren Merrill, "Strategy-Proofness on the Condorcet Domain" (Honors)
Donald Campbell + Carlisle Moody, Larry Evans
2006-07
- Lauren Childers, "Knowledge of Wealth Inequality in Two-Person One-Shot Bargaining Games" (High Honors)
Lisa Anderson + Jennifer Mellor, David Philips - Keith Klovers, "Estimating the Effects of Transit on Residential Property Values: The Case of the Portland MAX System" (Highest Honors)
Alfredo Pereira + Will Hausman, Larry Evans - Ryan Lema, "Are Class Size Reductions Effective? A Look at Returns to School Resources in Texas" (Honors)
Robert Archibald + Scott Nelson, Eric Jensen
2005-06
- Paul Charpentier
David Feldman + Eric Jensen, Berhanu Abegaz, Charles Johnson - Francis DiTraglia, "Experimental Public Goods in Prague and Williamsburg: An International Comparison" (Highest Honors)
Jeffrey Gerlach + Lisa Anderson, Michael Trosset - Harrison Killefer, "The Tiger Effect: An Empirical Analysis of How One Athlete Changed the Face of Golf" (Honors)
Martin Schmidt + Don Campbell, James Armstrong - Daniel Kuehn, "Downstream Trade and the Vertical Structure of the Domestica Market: Evidence from the Steel Industry" (Honors)
Clyde Haulman + Sarah Stafford, Eric Jensen, Dee Royster - Kevin Park, "The Fourteenth Colony: An Economic History of Nova Scotia during the American Revolution and its Aftermath, 1760-1815" (High Honors)
William Hausman + Sarah Stafford, Clay Clemens
2004-05
- Bonnie Queen
Rob Hicks + Clyde Haulman, Rob Hicks - Amanda Young
Jeffrey Gerlach + Clyde Haulman, Richard Hynes
