Past Senior Honors Theses

2009-2010
Nick Van Niel, “Revitalizing the Signaling Power of Class Rank at Colby College”
Robin A. Daley, “Determinants of Credit Ratings for U.S. Private Colleges”
Isaac M. Cooper, “Conflict and the Will to Win”
Roberto Delhy Nolivos, “Central Bank Independence and Fiscal Dominance”
Loredana Popescu, “The Continuity of Foreign Direct Investment: Determinants and Effects”
Mesay Melese, “Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: Determinants and Effects”
Robert M. Knipp, “Primary CER Market Dynamics and the EUA-sCER Price Spread”

2008-2009
Ivan Balbuzanov, “The Effect of Religious Participation and Permanent Income on Suicide Risk: Micro-Level Analysis”
Ian Cummins, “Cyclicality of State Budgeting: A Political-Economy Analysis”
Prabhav Rakhra, “Business-Time”
John Roberts, “Can Parallel Exchange Rates Predict Commodity Prices?”
Po Yin Wong, “The Effect of Natural Disasters on Vulnerability: The Indonesian Forest Fires in 1997”
Yilin Xu, “Local Governance and Public Goods Provision – Evidence from Gansu Province”
Gregory Zartarian, “Armenian Questions: The Occupational and Geographic Mobility of Armenian Immigrants”
Ling Zhu, “Novel Measures of Central Bank Independence”

2007-2008
Andrei Roman, “Developing Reliable Estimates of Poverty and Inequality for Chile’s Ethnic Groups”
Yauheniya Sidarchuk, “Stock Market Indexes and Future Economic Activity since 1800”
Ishan Singh, “Stock Markets and Household Wealth: Can a Stock Market Crash Cause a Recession in the U.S. Economy?”
Kyle Smith, “An Incumbent’s Guide to Reelection: The States and Economic Voting in U.S. Presidential Elections”
Joerose Tharakan, “Demographic Differences in Household Expenditure for Low-Income Families: Evidence From the United States”

2006-2007
Caroline Adler, “The Determinants of Recovery Rates on Defaulted Corporate Securities: Why Do Fallen Angels Recover More than Original High Yield Issues?”
Michael Aquino, “Can the Business Cycle be Used to Create Predictable Mutual Fund Outperformance?”
Horacio Diaz Adda, “Social Cohesion and Economic Growth: Evidence from latin America and East Asia”
Magda Tsaneva, “Voices of the Poor: Poverty and Growth in Albania”
Aimee Williams, “Two Essays on the Indiana Family Cap Provision”