Student Achievement
Annual Department Awards
2022 Winners
- Dan Hiller ’22 — Breckenridge Prize
- Lindsey Merolla ’22 — Christian A. Johnson Award
- Hadley Murphy ’23 — Department Prize for junior highest GPA in the major
- Ryan Troy ’23 — Ernest Parson Business Administration Prize
- Adam Zucatti ’22 — Faculty Prize for high scholarly attainment in economics
- Qingyi (Shirely) Cao ’23 — Faculty Prize junior outstanding performance Microeconomic/Macroeconomic Theory
- Maddie Fresco ’22 — James J. Harris Business Administration Prize
- Dan Hiller ’22 — Jan Hogendorn Prize
- Muxin Li ’22 — LaBreck Prize
- Yaoyao (Chris) Zhu ’22 — Robert W. Pullen Prize
Senior Honors Theses
2022 Senior Theses
- Hannah Davidsen – The Effects of Personality and Risk Preferences on Effort-Based Behavior: A Game Theoretic Approach
- Cameron Dyer – Is Monetary Policy Neutral? The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy Transmission Across the Income Distribution
- Yusuke Fukuda – Discrimination Among College Football Head Coaches
- Jason Garrelick – Priced In? The Effects of News Coverage on the Stock Market
- Jacob Gray – How Does the Introduction of a Wind Farm Impact Average Wage?
- Dan Hiller – Municipal Reform in the Progressive Era: Spatial Spread and Fiscal Outcomes of the Commission Government
- Muxin Li – How Do Natural Disasters Affect the Variation in Government Spending and the Way it is Financed?
- Terri Nwanma – Does the Level of Women’s Empowerment Determine the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Developing Countries?
- Alex Ozols – Bean to Buck: Examining the Effects of Global Coffee Commodity Market on Smallholders in Colombia
- Benjamin Plevin – Two-Sided Matching: A Study of Underemployment
- Kat Specht – Impacts of Profamilia Program Spread on Contraceptive Use and Fertility Rates in Colombia During its Introduction
- Jack Tomlin – How Well Do You Know Your Music Preferences?
- Chris Zhu – Dynamic Double Auctions: An Analysis in Secondary Sneaker Market and its Future as a NFT Marketplace