Honors Theses 2005

AUTHOR THESIS TITLE DATE
William Adams Unemployment and the Consumer Credit Market (pdf) May 2005
Kehinde Ajayi Regional Financial and Economic Integration in West Africa (pdf) May 2005
Glenn Bean Decision Market Predictions: Separating Efficiency and Bias (pdf) June 2005
Dennis Chang September 11th Federal Loan Guarantees and the Effect on U.S. Airline Pricing Behavior (pdf) May 2005
Jack Chung Beyond Geeks: Effects of Increased Casual Gamer Demand in the Videogame Industry from 1995 to 2002 (pdf) May 2005
Chad Clamage Risk and Effort in Rank Order Tournaments: The Case of the 2004 PGA Tour (pdf) May 2005
Vikram Fielding-Singh Reputation Building as Counterterrorism: Theory and Evidence (pdf) May 2005
Aaron Gelband Opportunities After Sarbanes-Oxley: Can Outsiders Earn Abnormal Profits by Mimicking Insider Trades? (pdf) June 2005
Lauren Gross Altruism, Fairness and Social Intelligence: Are Economists Different? (pdf) June 2005
Michael Hasper Intellectual Property Rights Protections in Developing Countries: The Effect of TRIPs on the Production and Dissemination of Cures Specific to Developing Country Diseases (pdf) June 2005
Kalikolehua Hurley A Follow-up Experimental Analysis of Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments (pdf) June 2005
Juhyun Jeong The Determinants of Child Labor and Schooling in Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama (pdf) May 2005
Dawson Kaaua Investigating The Connection Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity (pdf) May 2005
Kathryn Ladewski Distributional Equity and School Location in the Chilean Education Voucher System (pdf) May 2005
Katrina Lake The Relationship Between Poor Health Behaviors and Medicare Costs (pdf) May 2005
Waynn Lue Peer-to-Peer Networks and Radio Play: An Unexplored Link (pdf) May 2005
Josh Meltzer Average Salary and Contract Length in Major League Baseball: When Do They Diverge? (pdf) May 2005
Kate Messmer The Effect of the Gender Composition of Occupations on the Gender Wage Differential (pdf) May 2005
Joshua Mitchell Forecasting the Effects of the August 23rdFair Labor Standards Act Overtime Changes Evidence from a California Natural Experiment (pdf) May 2005
Kenneth Moon Information & Identity: An Application to Political Campaign Media (pdf) May 2005
Alexander Pagon Polls and Markets in the 2004 Presidential Election: A Risk Premium to Explain Deviations between Polling Predictions and Market Prices (pdf) May 2005
Kelly Paulson Lawyers and the American West An Empirical Investigation into the Components of Demand for Legal Services from 1850 to 1930 (pdf) May 2005
Alexandra Pocek The Earnings Consequences of Worker Displacement in Reunified Germany (pdf) May 2005
Michael Ryan Enlargement Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy (pdf) May 2005
Krishna Savani Essays in Experimental Economics (pdf) May 2005
Sonam Sherpa Wealth Effect on Consumption during 1985 -2003 (pdf) May 2005
Mark Somers Decoupled Income Support: The Case of United States Direct Payments (pdf) May 2005
Eric Sun The Effects of Auction Parameters on Price Dispersion and Bidder Entry on eBay: A Conditional Logit Analysis (pdf) May 2005
Junyuan Christopher Tan The Liberalization of Trade in Textiles and Clothing: China's impact on the ASEAN economies (pdf) May 2005
Richard R. Townsend Choosing Among Competing Theories of The Wage Curve (pdf) May 2005
Sean Tyan The Effects of Shipping Costs on Bidder Entry and Seller Revenues in eBay Auctions (pdf) May 2005
Nithya Vaduganathan Do Perceived Benefits or Costs Drive the Demand for Primary Education in Karnataka? (pdf) June 2005
Sterling Witzke Differential Income Advantages in the U.S. Market for Physicians: Male vs. Female returns to Board-Certification (pdf) May 2005