Comps, honors papers, and prize-winning works of the Economics Department are featured here. All works have been self-submitted by the student authors. Descriptive information about each work is available to search or browse. Access to the full text of the works is limited to current Carleton affiliates with faculty permission. Learn more about how to submit your work and how to request access to the full text of works.
Submissions from 2015
Caitlin Mary Throne, Economics (ECON) 2015, The Helicopter Effect: Parental Participation's Impact on Academic Achievement in India
Devint Martin Tomson-Moylan, Economics (ECON) 2015, Content Villagers and Unhappy Urbanites: Exploring the Rural-Urban Happiness Divide
Shenlun Wang, Economics (ECON) 2015, Examining the effect of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Act on Bank Risks and Derivatives Risks
Shuchao Wang, Economics (ECON) 2015, To hoard, or not to hoard? Motives for reserve accumulation and its long-run economic consequences
Claire Hannah Willeck, Economics (ECON) 2015, Is Education the Key to Happiness? An Examination of the Impact of Educational Attainment on Female Life Satisfaction
Yue Zhang, Economics (ECON) 2015, Payment Method on Spending: The Impact of Payment Transparency on Consumer Behavior
Submissions from 2014
Michael Aaron Chappell, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Labor Market Effects of National Health Insurance: Evidence from Singapore
Jeffrey Andrew Dsida, Economics (ECON) 2014, Spend it Like Beckham
Joshua Estes, Economics (ECON) 2014, Does Scoring Matter? The Effects of Scoring on Team Revenue and and Player Salaries in the NBA
Daniel A. Geiger, Economics (ECON) 2014, An Empirical Study of the Relationship Between the New York Yankees World Series Performance and U.S. Equity Markets
Taylor Carl Hanson, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Impact of Contracts and Guaranteed Money on Production in the NBA
Michael Knutson Hovick, Economics (ECON) 2014, Examining the Flight-to-Quality Phenomenon in Europe during the Global Financial Crisis
Yuqing Lin, Economics (ECON) 2014, Exchange Rate Risk on Stock Market: Evidence from 2008 Financial Crisis
Micah Benjamin Muhr, Economics (ECON) 2014, Shooting to Win: An Analysis of the Effects of Team Performance Metrics on Winning in the NBA Playoffs and the Regular Reason
Joseph Herman Pedtke, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Effects of Fiscal Policy on Output during Different Periods of the Business Cycle: Evidence from the United States
Ha Thao Pham, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Effects of Personality on Wages in Germany
Cole Alexander Rystedt, Economics (ECON) 2014, Do Right-to-Work Laws Really Matter? An Analysis of Right-to-Work Legislation and its Impact on Union Membership
Yichen Shen, Economics (ECON) 2014, Interest Rate Pass-through and Capital Market Development: An Empirical Analysis
Danny William Shields, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Impact of the Competitive Balance Tax on Major League Baseball: Does the Luxury Tax actually work?
David Ascher Stillerman, Economics (ECON) 2014, Punishment Past the Cell: An Analysis of Employment and Earnings of Ex-Offenders
Tiantian Teng, Economics (ECON) 2014, The impact of national debt on economic growth
Huaiyu Wang, Economics (ECON) 2014, To Work or Not to Work: That is the question. An Intergenerational Approach to Female Labor Market Behavior
Cody James Young, Economics (ECON) 2014, The Federal Bailout of General Motors and Chrysler Fails to Improve Housing Prices in Proximate Municipal Economies
Submissions from 2013
Benjamin Raymond Bedore, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Behavioral Effects Of Early Intervention For Children From Low- Income Households
Gilah Benson-Tilsen, Economics (ECON) 2013, Air Quality and Health Outcomes in Washington State
Cooper Drew Buss, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Future of an Opiate Illusion: A Theory Based Empirical Analysis of Secularization
Charlie Carbery, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of a Congestion Charge on Public Cycle Hires: A London Case Study
Sam Nelson Espeland Carruthers, Economics (ECON) 2013, Buying the Green: A Hedonic Pricing Analysis of Hybrid Cars in the American Car Market
Katherine Logan Claiborne, Economics (ECON) 2013, Coal, Education, and Per Capita Income in Kentucky Counties, 1969-2011
Anna Helen Coonrod, Economics (ECON) 2013, Financing with the Stars: The Effects of Media on Financial Literacy and Financial Practices in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Michael Elder, Economics (ECON) 2013, How Has the University of Minnesota's New Stadium Affect Surrounding Housing Values
Tyler Randall Goetz, Economics (ECON) 2013, Role of the Border Effect in the Failure of the Law of One Price
Elise Corinne Gurney, Economics (ECON) 2013, Determining the Impacts of Local Food Movements on Large-Scale Trade Patterns for Agricultural Goods in the United States
Phillip Peter Juda, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are Public Utilities Really Greener?
Alice Lee Leno, Economics (ECON) 2013, Sources of Competition among Micro Finance Institutions: Political Institutions and Openness
Fay Xiao Li, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on Domestic Oil Firms and Alternative Energy Firms: an Event Study of the Persian Gulf War
Jens Richard Lillehei, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Corruption and Government Institutions on the Size of Microfinance
Yurui Liu, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Balassa-Samuelson Effect and Cross-Regional Labor Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe
Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada, Economics (ECON) 2013, Resource Discovery Announcements: The Pre-Dutch-Disease Syndrome
Barbara Marchevsky, Economics (ECON) 2013, State of New York, et. al. v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: An Event Analysis of Impact on the Nuclear Industry
Adam Michael Miller, Economics (ECON) 2013, Are There Any Economic Benefits To Drinking? A Macro Study of Alcohol's Effects on Education, Income, and Life Expectancy
Sana Rafiq, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Effect of Microfinance on Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Rural Thailand
Wenli Rui, Economics (ECON) 2013, A Microstructure Approach to Exchange Rate Determination in the Chinese Foreign Exchange Market
Adam Edward Scherling, Economics (ECON) 2013, Tipping the balance of innovation: Who takes advantage of intellectual property rights in developed and developing countries
Benjamin Geoffrey Southgate, Economics (ECON) 2013, LOOP and the Internet Marketplace
Kana Suzuki, Economics (ECON) 2013, How much more do people value safety? Estimating the impact of the March 2011 Fukushima disasters on residential land prices in Fukushima Prefecture
Scott Anthony Theisen, Economics (ECON) 2013, The Impact of Economic Development on Biodiversity
Maxwell Gustav Miller Timm, Economics (ECON) 2013, The impact of Eurasian watermilfoil on residential lakeshore property value in Washington County, MN
Jeremy Tilton Wadsworth, Economics (ECON) 2013, The 'Border Effect' Between the United States and Canada: The Role of Nominal Exchange Rate Variability in the Creation of Price Level Volatility
Submissions from 2012
Jacob K. Alcorn, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Airport Noise A Spatial Investigation into the Relationship between Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport's Noise Pollution and Property Values
Linghao Chen, Economics (ECON) 2012, Real Exchange Rates and Commodity Prices
Ngoc Do, Economics (ECON) 2012, Attention Allocation, Financial Integration and Exchange Rate Volatility as Driving Forces for Home Equity Bias
William Lief Esbenshade, Economics (ECON) 2012, Choice and Policy Shocks in Minneapolis Public Schools
Erin Nur Gudul, Economics (ECON) 2012, Playing to Win, or Playing Not to Lose? The Prevalence of Loss Aversion at Wimbledon
Gnagna Lam, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of School Quality on House Values
Jonathan Marshall Lien, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of a Rule Change on the Strategies of NFL Return Teams
William Robert Moritz, Economics (ECON) 2012, Age and Performance on the PGA Tour
Patrick Philley, Economics (ECON) 2012, The Effect of Professional Sports Franchise Relocations on Local Employment
Submissions from 2011
Louise Catherine Buckler, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Tiger Woods Effect: An Analysis of Tournament Performance When Competing Against a Superstar
Walton Chan, Economics (ECON) 2011, What Motivates CEOs to Work Harder for the Shareholders in the IT Industry?
Meghan Niketa Gajare, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment Regulations on Economic Growth in Developing Countries
Nicholas Donald Holschuh, Economics (ECON) 2011, A Systematic Analysis of Potential Leading Indicators in the United States through Vector Autoregression
Sungwook Hwang, Economics (ECON) 2011, Leaving Classrooms for a More Employable Future
Taimur Ali Khan, Economics (ECON) 2011, Cointegration of International Stock Markets: An Investigation of Diversification Opportunities
Neil Kevin Kolstad, Economics (ECON) 2011, Foreign Aid and Economic Growth: Bilateral and Multilateral Aid Unconstrained
Katharine Marie Lindquist, Economics (ECON) 2011, Horizontal Educational Inequalities and Civil Conflict: The nexus of ethnicity, inequality, and violent conflict
Chang Liu, Economics (ECON) 2011, Commodity Prices Movements Forecasting: Time Series Analysis with Macroeconomic and Financial Factors
Sahil Mehra, Economics (ECON) 2011, An empirical analysis of the impact of membership in regional trading agreements on economic development
Hang Thi Viet Nguyen, Economics (ECON) 2011, Stock Returns and Expected Inflation: Measurement of Expected Inflation and the Evolution of the Relationship over Time
Tyler Palin, Economics (ECON) 2011, Forecasting the U.S. Unemployment Rate: The Impact of Stock Market Volatility
Chen Sun, Economics (ECON) 2011, An Empirical Analysis of the Employment Outcome Differentials between Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans and Non-veterans
Rebecca Wang, Economics (ECON) 2011, Remittances and Public Spending on Health: Substitutes or Complements?
Jason Richard Weischedel, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effects of School Choice on Student Achievement: Evidence across the United States
Joseph Weise, Economics (ECON) 2011, The Effect of Performance Incentive Bonuses: Evidence from Running Backs in the NFL
Zhe Yang, Economics (ECON) 2011, R&D and Productivity Growth
Submissions from 2010
Gina Marie Allen, Economics (ECON) 2010, If You're Healthy and You Know it Clap Your Hands: An Exploration of the Relationship between Self-Rated Happiness and Self-Rated Health
Brett Anthony Amick, Economics (ECON) 2010, Competitive Balance within a Cartel Design: A Case Study on the National Hockey League's Original Six
Chuck Hans Anderson-Weir, Economics (ECON) 2010, How Does the Stock Market React to Corporate Environmental News?
Jonathan Robert Blaufuss, Economics (ECON) 2010, Identifying the Effect of Fossil Fuel Reserves on National CO2 Emissions using a Variation of the STIRPAT Model
Susan Purcell Blaylock, Economics (ECON) 2010, Asset Ownership and Health
Kyle Pearson Burkhardt, Economics (ECON) 2010, Racial Discrimination Among Major League Soccer Referees
Robert Carlton, Economics (ECON) 2010, Alcohol and Marijuana Use Among Youth and Young Adults: Economic Complements or Substitutes?
Jonathan Carter, Economics (ECON) 2010, Justifying the NIMBY Argument: A Multi-Site Hedonic Analysis of Wind Energy's Pricing Effects on Residential House Values
Moses Rotich Cherono, Economics (ECON) 2010, Quantifying the Economic Value of a Soccer Player: An Econometric Analysis
Hannah Julia Goldberg, Economics (ECON) 2010, Gender Differences In Response To Incentives: An Econometric Analysis Using Men's And Women's Professional Tennis
Marcel Gozali, Economics (ECON) 2010, Macroeconomic Impacts Of Oil Price Levels And Volatility On Indonesia
Jaebeom Hong, Economics (ECON) 2010, How Do Asian Players' Salaries Differ from Other Players in Major League Baseball?
Saaniya Jairath, Economics (ECON) 2010, An empirical cross-country Analysis of the Impact of International Trade on Environmental Quality
Chase Edward Kimball, Economics (ECON) 2010, Seasonal and Weekend Effects on Drug and Alcohol Abuse
Kyungmin Kim, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Impact of Expenditure Cap on Competitive Balance in Formula One Racing
Brian Lambert, Economics (ECON) 2010, How does Positive and Negative Framing Affect Sustainability Decisions at the Firm Level for Negative Public Goods Games?
Zun-Ho Lee, Economics (ECON) 2010, Asian Dust Stocks?: A Myth Created by the Media
Daniel Matthew Lindvall, Economics (ECON) 2010, Estimating the Value of Water in the High Plains Aquifer
Steven Andrew Merry, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Relative Efficiency of Medicaid Programs in America
Megan Emily Mileusnic, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Wage Effects of Obesity in the U.S. Labor Market: Are Obese Paid Less Because of Health Insurance?
Winston Kyungwoo Park, Economics (ECON) 2010, Serving Under Pressure
Reza Rahnema, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Determinants of Aggregate Health Care Expenditure: the Role of Institutional Factors
Andy Rooks, Economics (ECON) 2010, Competition and Consumer Utility: Evidence from the Healthcare Industry
John D. Schlaefer, Economics (ECON) 2010, The Impact of Flex Fuel Technology in Brazil on the Cointegration of São Paulo Consumer Gasoline Prices and Sugar No. 11 Futures Prices
Joseph Stephen Sjoberg, Economics (ECON) 2010, Cartel Enforcement and Competitive Balance: Evidence from Men's College Basketball
