(by year; * denotes Senior Honors Thesis Award recipients) IPE HonorsTheses 1996-1992(completed through the Economics department)
2007
Cristina Connolly - Labratory Vs. Reality: The Difference Between Students and Community Members
Sara Lowes* - The use of Propensity Score Matching to Evaluate the Effects of the Red De Protección Social in Willí, Nicaragua
Pavel Svaton - Westernization of Government Expenditures: Fiscal Convergence in Eastern Europe
2006
Duncan Cooper - Endogenous Worker Contract Selection in the Principal-Agent Game
Dan Hutner - Shadow Bank: An Agent-Based Study of the Emergence of Informal Credit Markets Under State-Controlled Banking Regimes
Martin Rajcan* - R&D, Innovation, and Productivity: Modeling the Process of Technological Change in Chinese Firms
John C. Schirm* - Sabotage in Tournaments: Does Increasing Effort Increase Sabotage?
Opat Herman Tengia - Currency Unions Prospects in Southern Africa: An Empirical Analysis based on the Theory of Optimum Currency Areas (OCA)
David Tswamuno - Financial Liberalization and Economic Growth: Lessons from the South African Experience
Tyler Williams - Group and Individual Behavior in Informal Contracts in Microfinance
2005
Martha C. Dutton - The Effects of Gender Discrimination on Job Satisfaction
Yohanne Kidolezi - Household Surveys and Street Child Labor: Evidence for Selection and Reporting Bias
Brian W. Michaud - From Oil Price Shocks to Inflation
Leonard Seevers - Banking Tying and the Emergence of Universal Banking in the United States
No Prize Awarded*
2004
Ashley Brown* - Sunk Cost Sensitive Fairness Norms: An Experimental Analysis
Victor S. Guzik - Contextual Framing Effects in a Common Pool Resource Experiment
Khurram Jamali - The Effect of Political Regimes on Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis
Hubert P. Janicki* - Market Integration and the Multinational Enterprise: A Gravity Model Analysis of European Convergence
Dan Whitmore - Is Fairness Used Instrumentally? A Retribution Experiment
2003 Peter Hennessy - Social Expenditure, Asymmetric shocks and Harmonization in Europe.
Aaron Steen - The Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment And Ensuing Technological Spillovers on Chinese Regional Income Inequality.
Marla Weinstein - Charity Auctions: An Investigation By Means of A Field Experiment.
Laura Woodward - Economic Predictors of Gubernatorial Election Outcomes
David Preston Wright - Argentina: Prelude to Default.
Laura Zarchin* - The Evolution of the Gender Wage Gap in Russia, Evidence from 1994-2001.
2002
Justin Drechsler - Variations on the Mini-Ultimatum Game: An Exercise in Information. Sheikh Usman Ul Haque - Asset Securitization: Financing Technique of the 21st Century.
Kevin Immonje - Procyclical Labor Productivity: Evidence From Evolutonary Games.
Jessica Wasilewski* - Low Income Credit Rationing and Social Return on Investment:Welfare-to-Work Car Loans in the State of Vermont.
2001
NEED NAME - Rate Management Under Structural Adjustment: The Case of Bangladesh. James May - Governance and the Unofficial Economy.
James Q. Ong- Electronic Currency and its Effect on the Strength of Monetary Policy.
Okomboli Ong'ong'a* - Social Reciprocity: An experimental Investigation.
Dauvin Peterson - The Stock Markets of Mainland China and Hong Kong: An Historical Analysis and Outlook.
Neviana Petkova - Distributional Conflict and Inflation: an Application to the Bulgarian Experience.
McAndrew Rudisill - The Influence of Outside Options: Labor Management Bargaining Experiments.
2000
Gwenlyn M. Busby - Environmental Quality and Human Development: Beyond the Income Deterministic Environmental Kuznets Curve. Ivan T. Kandilov - The Wage Inflation Puzzle and the Cost of Job Loss.
Meghan C. McGuinness* - What Determines Exploration Effort in the International Uranium Market? A Study of the Eight Major Producers.
Ian McGuire - Determinants of Economic Growth: Exploring Latin America's Performance.
1999
Qazi Munir Alam - The Debate on International Capital Flows. Elizabeth Cassidy - Environmental Justice and Air Quality: Asch and Seneca Revisited.
Daniel Meyer - Macroeconomic Factors and the Distribution of Income in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom.
John Overbay- Informational Efficiency in Experimental Futures Markets: Contract Prices, and Public Information in Iowa Political Stock Markets.
Rogelio Sanchez* - Financial Structure, Economic Growth and Patterns of Development.
Peter Westra-The Equity Price Reaction to Tracking Stock Announcements.
1998
Molly Campbell - A Study of the Economic Impact of El Niño on the Peruvian Fish Meal Industry. Rubiana Chamarbagwala - The Impact of Foreign Capital on Domestic Manufacturing: Empirical Evidence from Asian Economies.
Arjun Dhawan - Volatility in India's Emerging Stock Market.
Ijlal Naqv i- An Investigation into the Nature and Incidence of Collusion in FCC Spectrum Auctions.
Mohammed Zakir - Land lord-Tenant Relations in Agrarian Economies: A Game-Theoretic Analysis.
1997
Stephen J. Carré* - Testing for Efficiency in the Heating Oil Futures Market.
Utku Gulmeden* - A Revealed Comparative Advantage Study of Turkey: 1971-1994.
Adam Minnick - A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Salmon Restoration in Idaho.
Amber M. Olig - Economic Rhetoric - A Joint Economics/English Thesis.
Scott Rivard - The Cost of Meeting the European Monetary Union's Convergence Criteria.
Sheetal M. Bhansali - Liberation or Exploitation? The Growth of Export Processing Zones and Their Impact on Women Workers in Developing Countries.
1996
Rebecca A. Kirk - Microsoft, Market Share, and Competition in the Computer Software Industry. Michael J. Lauterbach - The Effect of Takeover Threats on Corporate Performance: An Investigation into the Role of Corporate Raiders.
Scott M. Macklin* - An Historical Comparison of Theoretical Spot Rate and STRIPS Yield Curves.
Scott K. Paul - Arbitrage in the Treasury Bill Market - Implications for Bond Market Efficiency Bond.
Umar Serajuddin - Changing the Nature of Progressivity: An Income Tax Progressive in Wage Rates?
Charles O.T. Wyman - The Effects of Energy Sector Development on Economic Growth in The People's Republic of China, 1980-1995.
1995
John M. Barrett - The Economics of Local Exchange Telecommunication: A Case Study on Vermont Independent Telephone. Mark A. Hamre - America's Dynamic Political Economy: Empirical Estimates of the Post-War Era.
Matthew H. Nadel - The Determinants of State-Level Health Care Spending.
Noga O. Peled - An Investigation of Union Wage Premiums by Gender: Evidence from the 1980s.
Sandro F. Wulff - A Cost Benefit Analysis of the Middlebury College Recycling Program.
1994
Sandeep Kamal Gupta - A Cross-Section Analysis of Economic Growth: 1972-1989. Derek Lounsbury - An Investigation into the Effect of Social Security on Private Savings: New U.S Time-Series Evidence.
Alexander J. Roth - Land Preservation, Zoning, and Economics: An Empirical Study of New York's Adirondack Park - Environmental Thesis
Luke S. Schaeffer - The Cost of Public School versus Private School: A Case Study.
Joshua Scott Scherer - U.S.-Japan Trade Conflict in Semiconductors; A Dangerous Obsession with Managed Trade.
Iffath Anwar Sharif- Beyond Survival: The Role of Credit in Rural Women's Socio-economic Development.
Edward Young Soh - Central Bank Independence and Long-Run Productivity Growth: A Reexamination of the De Long and Summers Hypothesis.
Graham Van Keuren - The Role of Rural Education in Rural-to-Urban Migration - An Analysis of Education and Migration in the Developing World.
1993
Samuel Brown - Overinvestment and Shortage in the Soviet Economy: The Effect on the Construction Period. Shane Carbonneau - The Narrowing Black-White Union-Nonunion Wage Differential?
Ding R. Chun - Financial Innovations: Origination, Valuation, and Evolution - A Case Study of Contingent Value Rights.
Alexandra M. Flynn - Japanese "Communitarian" Capitalism and Intangible Trade Barriers -- Guilty of Protectionism?
Erin K. Hill - Male and Female Immigrant Assimilation Rates: Evidence from CPS 1979.
Sally K. Keefe - Leverage and Production in the U.S. Forests Products Industry.
Syed Ali Raza Mehdi - Modeling Endogenous Technological Change in Indian Agriculture: Tests of the Induced Innovation Hpypothesis.
Michael T. Nichols - Pickpocketing Myopic Voters: A Politician's Guide.
1992
Matthew S. Benjamin - Monetary Policy and the 1990-91 Recession. Adlumia D. Gannett - The Economic and Policy Issues of Vermont Wetlands.
Eric R. Mendelsohn - An Econometric Analysis of United States Foreign Trade Aid.
Erica Nourjian - Measuring the Gender Wage Gap Under Alternative Compensating Schemes.
Felix Paulick - Pay and Performance in Major League Baseball.
Heather L. Pederson - Economic Transition Toward a Sustainable Use of Tropical Rain Forests.
David A. Rickard - Bank Mergers.
Kashif Zafar - Transaction Cost Economics and the Islamic Firm.
1991
Ayaz-ul-Haque - An Examination of the Theory of Monetary Integration in Context of the European Monetary System. Benjamin L. Judson- The Economic Community of West Africa; Theory and Practice of Economic Integration as a Strategy for Growth.
Ian D. Kearney - An Economic Analysis of Title IV of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act.
Nalin Nayyar - Vertical Linkages Between Large Enterprises and Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries - A Case Study and Recommendations to the Indiana Government.
Tara L. Nells - Have Women Been Affected More Adversely Than Men by the Increased Internationalization of U.S. Manufacturing?
Mustafa Topiwalla - Inter-Firm Wage Differentials The Experience of Korea.
1990
Evan N. Berlin - U.S. and Soviet Aid to Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Analysis. Richard G. Compson Jr. - A Case Study in the Steel Products Industry.
Karin A. Ford - The Glass Ceiling: An Examination of Women in the Upper Levels of the Corporations.
Steven L. Fossel - Barriers to U.S. Trade in Financial Services With a Case Study of Japan.
Peter M. Holmes à Court - Prospects for Venture Capital in the Soviet Union and the First Soviet-American Venture Fund.
Kelly J. Kennedy - Mergers and Average Cost in the US Manufacturing Industry.
Arthur G. McAleer - Teen Age Labor and the Efficiency of the Minimum Wage.
David H. Milner- Analyzing Discrimination in Bank Loans: An Investigation Into Black and White Disparities.
Jonathan F. Mowry - An Investigation of the Factors Determining Compensating Wage Differentials for Job Hazards.
Leanne C. Potvin- The Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on International Competitiveness in the Processed Food Industry: A Case Study.
James A. Ranicar - An Analysis of the Role Changes of the International Monetary Fund: 1971 to 1989.
Carl J. Trotto - Stock Price Volatility & Market Globalization.
Natalie K. Waters - An Analysis of the United Kingdom's Position Regarding the European Monetary System.
1989
Michael S. Cohen - Structural Adjustment in Argentina: Short-Run Stabilization vs. Long-Run Growth. Dan W. Durland Jr.- Collusion in Major League Baseball.
John K. Honney - The Counter-Cyclical Nature of Union-Nonunion Wage Differential.
Paul T. Morrison- Reasonable Expectations: Combining Rational Expectations in the Estimation of the Elasticity of Supply for Selected Commodities in the Agricultural Sector.
Keith W. Pennell- No title available.
1988
Jason A. Bernstein - Optimal Advertising Along the Brand Life Cycle. Jonathan E. Bigelow - The Monetarist-Structuralist Debate: Theory with an Application to Argentina 1946-1986.
Donald G. Bramley - The Effects of Firm Size and Unions on Employee Earnings and Benefits: A Total Compensation Analysis.
Melissa G. Ellsworth - Labor Turnover: A Study of Causes and Costs with Special Consideration of the Food Service Labor Stortage.
Tom S. Hanson - Efficiency and the High Yield Market: Are the High Realized Returns in the High Yield Market Only a Phenomenon of the Past?
Michael D. Lounsbury - Interest Rates and Option Market Efficiency.
Gerald A. McDermott - In Search of Parity - An Analysis of the Purchasing Power Parity Theory of Exchange Rates.
Thomas Clark Munnell, Jr. - The Effect of Capital Gains on House Saving Behavior.
David F. Peak- Middlebury College and Local Economic Impact Modeling.
John B. Rose - Testing the Performance of an Investment Strategy Based on the Value Line Investment Survey's Timeliness Ranks.
Gregory T. White - Changing Technology and the Life cycle Theories.
1987
Christopher L. Casey - Scale Economies in Northeast Commercial Banking. James M. Connolly - Trade Union Power and Wage Rates in the United Kingdom.
Buckmaster deWolf - Soviet Collectivization and the Impact on Industry and Agriculture.
John R. Henley - Pooled Cross Section - Time Series Examination of the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Compensation of Unemployment Duration and Unemployment Rates.
Joseph S. McVicker - Pricing Piracy Out of the Software Market.
Dorothy S. Paynter - The Effects of Advertising on Market Share in the Chocolate Industry.
1986
Wyman W. Briggs - Environmental Cost Benefit Analysis - The Case of the Salmon Restoration Program on the Connecticut River. James H. Bromley, Jr. - The Determination of the Effect of Greenmail, Using the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory.
Gregory A. Jones - The U.S. Trade Deficit: Causes and Solutions.
John B. Works -Estimating the Lagged Effects of Changes in the Money Supply on Changes in Nominal Income and Prices, Using the Quantity Theory of Exchange.
1985
John M. Chalmers - Japanese Investment in the Alaskan Salmon Industry. Lisa E. Olsson - An Analysis of Tax Progressivity: Vermont and New Hampshire, 1983.
Laura M. Shelton -Determinants of Mexican Migration.
1984
Judson G. Randolph Jr. - An Evaluation of the Economic Efficiency of Present Sugar Protectionism. Marsha K. Silverberg - Economic Development and Changes in Intra-Industry Trade Between Similar Countries - A Case Study of Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.
Richard T. Woodward - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of the Motivations Behind Personal Philanthropic Contributions.
1983
John Morrison - The Impact of Computers on the Efficiency of Commercial Banks. Douglas B. Tegen - The Effect of Shareholder Wealth of the Divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
Mary Elizabeth McCombs - In Grand Prix Jumping Are Women the Weaker Sex.
Heather Pederson - Economic Transition Toward a Sustainable Use of Tropical Rain Forests.
1982
Paul Brumbaum - Implications of the Reinterpretation of the Reserve Clause for the Baseball Players' Labor Market. Michael Englund - The Effects of Competitive Commission Rates on NYSE Seat Prices.
Harald B. Findlay - The Airline Deregulation Act: A Preliminary Assessment.
Dean Jerrehian - The Economic Analysis of Crime.
Mary Elizabeth McCombs - In Grand Prix Jumping Are Women the Weaker Sex.
Elizabeth M. Stelluto - How Effective is Seasonal Pricing? A Study in Vermont.
Douglas B. Tegen - The Effect of Shareholder Wealth of the Divestiture of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
1981
John J. Hill - The Economic Costs of Tariffs and Quotas in the United States White Sugar Industry. Malik Mufti - Class Formations in Dependent Economies Case Studies: Turkey & Iran.
Steven Ruggiero - Leveraged Lessors and the Circumvention of Monetary Policy.
Andy Sareyan - The Airline Deregulation Act: An Investment of the Effects on Passenger Fares.
1980
Marcus D. Baker - Investment Aspects of the Housing Tenure Decision. John H. Hedden - Economic Models of Marijuana Markets.
Dominic A. Lloyd - The Impact of Some Social, Economic and Political Factors on the Rate of Growth of Less Developed Countries.
Cary Newberger - The Economic Growth Debate - Costs and Benefits of Economic Growth.
1979
Franklin H., Kettle - An Economic Analysis of Accounting for Inflation. Michael R. Minor - Efficiency Aspects of Municipal Expenditure.
George Varga - On Economic Justice and the State of Mankind.
1978
Mehrnaz Khoyi - Economic Development in a Less Developed Oil Rich Country: The Case of Iran. Peter B. Culman - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
Jonathan L. Drake - A National Market System for the Securities Industry.
Barbara A. Siegel - The Impact of Motor Carrier Freight Rates on the State of Vermont: An Input-Output Analysis.
1977
Hunter Boll - An Application of Mathematical Inventory Theory to Operations at Middlebury College. John Giebink - The Impact of Killington on Vermont's Economy: A Study in the Use of Input-Output Analysis.
Mary Hodgkin - The Secondary Role of Women in the United States Economy.
Stephen T. Maire - The Introduction and Effect of Railways on the Peasant Economy of North China, 1860-1930.
Scott Marcus - Utility and Game Theory Aspects of Lotteries with Attention to Scoreboard the Delaware Sports Lottery.
Gary Moreau- Real Estate Trusts: An Appraisal of Their Economic Contribution As a Financial Intermediary.
Edward Walzak - Phillips Curve: A Survey and Analysis.
1976
Donald S. Black - Approaches to Economic Development in Vermont. Henri P. Fischer - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
Kenneth M. Harlan - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
Joseph D. McLaughlin - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
Lisa Zeller - Taxation in Theory and in Vermont.
1975
Timothy R. Counihan - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library. Barbara Frantz - The Central Vermont Rate Case: An Application of Marginal Cost Pricing.
Charles T. Lennon - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
John A. Marzulli - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
Stephen Woodbury - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
1974
Thomas D. Harman - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library. Mark R. Pearson - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
William N. Whitaker, Jr. - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.
Frederic Zinober - Title may be obtained in Abernathy Room at Library.