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SENIOR PROJECTS IN ECONOMICS

2009
  • Abigail Paris
    "Optimal Choices on the Environmental Sustainability of Industry: A Case-Story in the Eco-Conscious Technology Surrounding Microbrewing"
    Andrew Pearlman

  • Anh Pham
    "The Effects of Income Inequality and Residential Segregation on Infectious Disease Transmission"
    Sanjaya DeSilva and Sam Hsiao

  • Kwaja Rahman
    "Islamic Banks v. Conventional Banks"
    Tamar Khitarishvili

  • Kyle Schwartz
    "The Efficacy of New York and Federal Tax Incentive on Promoting Renewable Energy"
    Kris Feder

  • Luoyan Chen
    "China's Way to Mass Education: Revisiting the 1999 Education Reforms"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou
  • Mi Zhou
    "The Economics of Chinese Traditional Medicine"
    Tamar Khitarishvili

  • Michael Smith
    "Artistic Educational Choice: A Theoretical Approach and Some Empirical Findings"
    Tsu-Yu Tsao

  • Nicholas Michaud
    "A Model of the Economic Effects of Software Piracy"
    Andrew Pearlman

  • Robert Ross
    "Land Valuation Taxation as a Tool for Floodplain Management in New Orleans"
    Kris Feder

  • Tahiya Chowdhury
    "The Effect of Mother's Time Allocation on Child Health"
    Sanjaya DeSilva

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2008
  • Abhay Puskoor
    "Towards a Better Conception of Economic Sanctions"
    Sanjaya DeSilva

  • Aleksander Kirov
    "Price Variation in Internet Auction Markets for Homogenous Goods: Theory and Practice"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou

  • Boris Tassev
    "The Bulgarian Housing Market in a Period of Transition, Financial Liberalization and Rising Price Levels"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou

  • Chi-Kit Chan
    "OECD Alternative: Implication of China's Rise on Africa's Economic Prospects"
    Tamar Khitarishvili

  • Christopher Herring
    "The Urbanization of Neo-Liberalism: New Orleans' Uneven Geographic Development after Katrina"
    Kris Feder


  • Ilaria Mazzocco
    "Agriculture in Transition: Liberalization, Market Creation and Rural Incomes in Romania and Poland"
    Kris Feder

  • Prisco Acevedo
    "Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities: Are Fannie Mae RMBs Safe from Subprime Infection?"
    Tamar Khitarishvili

  • Sijia Li
    "China's Corporate Bond Market: A Close Study of Commercial Paper"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou

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2007
  • Ana Saenz
    "The Harvest of the Uneven Field: Impact of CAFTA-DR on the Rice Industry in Costa Rica"
    Pavlina Tcherneva and Tsu-Yu Tsao
  • Ananta Neelim
    "South Asian Free Trade Agreement: A Stepping Stone or a Stumbling Block?"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Angelique Ahmed
    "Effects of Foreign Direct Investment Surge on the Neighbors of Developing Hubs: The Case of China and India and their Low-Income Neighbors"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Anna Neverova
    "Japanese Industrial Policy: Reason for Economic Miracle or Nightmare?"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou
  • Daniel Pacheco
    "Venezuela's Resource Curse: The Mechanisms Through Which Oil Dependence Hampers Economic Growth and Democracy"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Fernando Salas
    "The Relationship Between Initial Income Inequality and Long-Term Growth"
    Kris Feder
  • James Reynolds
    "Answering the Water Question in the Middle East: An Equitable and Efficient Solution to the Water Allocation Crisis Between Israel and Palestine"
    Kris Feder
  • Jordanka Visokomogilska
    "The Practice of Sub-Advising Mutual Funds: Motivations and Implications"
    Andrew Pearlman
  • Kalina Konstantinova
    "Endogenous Preference: Changing Preferences in the Context of Development"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Ling Na Lin
    "Chinatown and the Network Effect on Chinese Immigration to the United States"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Nikola Georgiev
    "Oil Shocks as a Contributing Factor for U.S. Recessions (Linear vs. Nonlinear Frameworks)"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou
  • Polina Petkova
    "Asymmetric Information in the Bulgarian Automobile Insurance Market"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou
  • Reanna Blackford
    "Participatory Irrigation Management in South Asia: An Analysis of Institutional Reconstruction in Sri Lankan and Indian Irrigation Management Transfer Projects"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Reed David
    "Traffic Congestion and Private Investment: Can Monopoly Profit Bring Public Benefit? A Study of Congestion-Relief Tactics and Transportation Incentives"
    Kris Feder
  • Shan Patrick
    "An Analysis of Preferences Toward Symbolic Goods"
    Tsu-Yu Tsao
  • Stephen Dickinson
    "Contingent Valuation in Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dam Removal"
    Sanjay DeSilva
  • Syed Rahman
    "TRIPs: An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Intellectual Property Rights on Economic Growth"
    Andrew Pearlman

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2006
  • Afroza Chowdhury
    "Effect of Islam on Institutions and Gender Empowerment: A study of South and Southest Asian Economics"
    Sanjaya DeSilva
  • Alina Marinova
    "The Impact of European Enlargement on the Industrial Structure of the E.U. Members States"
    Dimitri Papadimitriou
  • Ananta Neelim
    "The South Asian Free Trade Agreement”
    Sanjaya DeSilva
  • Andrew McCormack
    "NBA Free Agent Contract Values and Behavior: Exploring the Contract-Year Phenomenon " Econometric Analysis
    Tsu-Yu Tsao
  • Diya Timothy
    "Resources Rent Taxation as a Fiscal Tool for Urban Development"
    Kris Feder
  • Hank Skulstad
    "Inconsistency Risk on the Salary of Baseball Players"
    Andrew Pearlman
  • Janeta Marinova
    "Design of a Pension System for Transition Economies" Study that considers improved efficiency in investment patterns and attainment of additional savings”
    Andrew Pearlman
  • Jon Martin Dame
    "Ecological Geonomics: On the Equity and Efficiency Gains from Integrating a Geonomic Land Tax with Environmental Reform Programs"
    Kris Feder
  • Nevena Gadjeva
    "What Determines Companies' Advertising Behavior on Sponsored Search Engines? Study testing the validiity of Nelson's hypothesis withonline advertising"
    Andrew Pearlman
  • Zachary Kenner
    "Debt, Default, and Fixed Exchange Rates: An Investigation into the Forces behind the Argentine Peso Collapse and the Brazilian Real Devaluation"
    Tsu-Yu Tsao

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2005
  • Iani Tassev
    "Information Technology in U.S. Banking and Its Effect on Asymmetric Information"
    Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  • Rong Huang
    "Real Estate Bubble in China? A National Analysis and Case Study of Shanghai"
    Tsu-Yu Tsao
  • Saiful Islam Chowdhury
    "Child Labor: How it Debilitates Development," econometric analysis of the practice of child labor and its effects on long run economic growth
    Andrew Pearlman
  • Sau Pan Amy Chau
    "Interprovisional Female Marriage Migration in Rural China" study of how China's unique institutions influence the pattern of female peasants migrating for marriage from rural inland to rural coast
    Kris Feder
  • Taun Toay
    "Dynamics of a Dollar Devaluation: Deficits, Dangers, and Remedies of the Pending Current Account Crisis"
    Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
  • William McColloch
    "Class, Taxation, and the State: The Brenner Debate Reexamined," study of the structure and implications of taxation in precapitalist England and France
    Kris Feder
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