These are examples of Economics Honors theses submitted in 2008 and 2009. Some submissions have been omitted because they contain proprietary data, or because we do not have permission from the author to post the work. This is not a reflection on the quality of their work. All work is © 2007-2008 by the individual authors. All rights reserved.

Spring 2009

• An Examination of International Drivers of Educational Achievement, Benjamin Bruno Johnson
• Voter Uncertainty and Economic Conditions: A Look into Election Competitiveness, Christopher V. Lau
• The Economics of Signing Petitions: Social Pressure versus Social Engagement, Diane Alexander
• Testing the Efficient Markets Hypothesis: A Behavioral Approach To the Current Economic Crisis, Iulia Stefan
• Nuclear Proliferation and the Deterrence of Conventional War: A Proposal, Justin Pollard
• Changing Endowment Sizes and Prices of Giving in Ultimatum Games, Kevin Haas
• Selective Beliefs over Preferences, Luke A. Stewart
• Difference of Percentiles: A New Look at the Ability Bias, Paul Lewicki
• The Effect of Mass Transit Systems on Price of Condominium in Bangkok, Peson Sirikolkarn
• The Sour Side of Today’s Housing Market: Testing internal relationships and understanding the composition of today’s market., Peter Lewicki
• The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Fund Investments on Listed United States Companie, Richard Schimbor
• The Transformation of the Demographic Differential Between the U.S. Military and the U.S. Population, Ryan Moffett
• Not Just a TRIP! Two Cases of Business Strategy and Economic Incentives to Patent in Beijing, Shelley Jingyi Jiang
• The Effect of Fertility Levels on The Educational Attainment of Children in Uganda, Tara Roach
• Unionization and Incentives: Evidence from the Field, Thomas Winberry
• Education and Wage Differential by Race: Convergence or Divergence?, Tian Luo
• Job Security and Productivity: Evidence From Academics, William Leung
• A Survey of the Ratio of Mortgage Assets to Total Assets and Its Relation to Regulation, Yelena Bakman

Fall 2008

• Uncertainty and Social Preferences, Anwar O. Núñez-Elizalde
• The Liquidity Drought in Venture Capital, Kenneth F. Mendes
• Online Consumer Behavior and Search Costs on Deal Seeking Forums, Wayne Feng

Spring 2008

• Cluster Points of Conditioned Equilibria of a Class of Bayesian Games as Poisson Equilibria, Andrew F. Farris
• Child Health in Apartheid South Africa, Anitha Sivasankaran
• A Generalization of Expected Utility: Ex-Post Luck, Brock Mendel
• Defining, Modeling, and Measuring Investor Sentiment, Cathy Zhang
• The Potential for Misaligned Managerial Behavior Due to Equity-Based Compensation, Cesar Lee
• A New Look at Divisive Primaries using In-Party Negative Advertising, Elaine Ng
• Measuring the Listing Effect, Eric Jeske
• A Survey of the Signaling Theory, I-Hsiang Robert Chang
• Rural-Urban Migration in Cuba’s Special Period, Kate M. Reimer
• An Attempt to Reduce the Inequities: The Impact of Teach for America on Immigrant Youth in California, Maya Rossin
• The Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Look at the Housing Market, Moises Yi
• The Effect of Immigration on Rising Housing Prices in Europe; A Study of the Role of Demographics in the Housing Boom in Europe, Na'ama Shenhav
• Builders’ Advertising Bait – Do Homebuyers Bite?, Paul Janczyk
• If You Feed Them, Will They Come?, Priyanka Rajagopalan
• Reworking the Heckscher Ohlin Model: A Consistent Prediction, Tom Qiu
• The Effect of a Transition to a Market Economy on a Centrally Planned Government: The Case of Vietnam's Financial Service Sector Reform, Vu Nguyen Ho
• Crime and Education in San Francisco County, Yen-Ju Judy Lai
• Constructing Comparable Sources of Liquidity Risk in the CAPM, Zhenyu Lai