Economics

In the 2007-2008 academic year the Economics Departmentbegan awarding 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

2010-2011

• 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 Arthur Godwin-Jones, "Augmented Pivotal Mechanism" (Honors)
  Donald Campbell + Sarah Stafford, Charles Johnson
• Matthew Arthur Prescott Hanson, "The Economics of Roadside Bombs" (Honors)
  Carlisle Moody + Martin Schmidt, Phillip De 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 Nicole Merrill, "Strategy-Proofness on the Condorcet Domain" (Honors)
  Donald Campbell + Carlisle Moody, Larry Evans

2006-07

• Lauren Elizabeth Childers, "Knowledge of Wealth Inequality in Two-Person One-Shot Bargaining Games" (High Honors)
  Lisa Anderson + Jennifer Mellor, David Philips
• Keith Butler 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 Albert 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