Past Honors Theses
Spring 2011
Neighborhood Effects and School Performance: The Impact of the Public Housing Demolitions on Children in North Carolina by Rebecca Agostino
Taming the Dragon: The Modernization of the Chinese Equity Markers and its Effects on IPO Underpricing by William Benesh
IPO Timing Determinants by Rachel Blum
Market Multiples Assessing the Relationships between M&A Deal Multiples, Market Conditions, and Target Accounting Measures by Joanna Bromley and Regina Zhou
Personalizing Ideology in the News: The Impact of News Aggregators and Collective Filtering by Anna Burke
An Exploration of Multimedia Multitasking: How Television Advertising Impacts Google Search by Celeste Clipp
Crisis Period Forecast Evaluation of the DCC-GARCH Model by Yang Ding and Andrew Schwert
Openness to Ideas and Long Run Economic Growth by Sarah Freitas
Taking Another Look at Multilateral Aid Flows: Reconsidering the Dynamics of the U.S.'s Strategic Use of Development Aid by Jared Goodman
Trailer Park Economics by Caitlin Gorback
Time-Varying Beta: The Heterogeneous Autoregressive Beta Model by Kunal Jain
The Marital Wage Premium in the Twenty-First Century: Do married men earn a higher wage, and if so, why? by Hans Kist and Halley Hu
Decision-Making with Potentially Biased Advisors by Kevin Kupiec
Matching Offers in the Provision of Public Goods by Chengyu Li
Welcome to the United States: Self-selection of Puerto Rican Migrants by Kathryn Haiying Li
Contagion in Emerging Market Equities by Richard Li and Yiwen Zhu
The Economic Penalty of Dengue by Yamini Misra
Extending the Possibilities of Kidney Exchange with Compatible Pairs by Karna Mital
How Effective is Global Financial Regulation? The Basel Accords’ Role in Mitigating Banking Crises by Robert Nowak
The Nurture Effect: Like Father, Like Son. What about for an Adopted Child? A Study of Korean-American Adoptees on the Impact of Family Environment and Genes by Suanna Seung-yun Oh
How will they fare on “Judgment Day”? Reputational Herding in Professional Communities by Alexandra Oprea
Winner--‐Take--‐All Economics “Professional Inquiry and Public Discourse on Material Inequality” by Johnathan Pryor
Beta Estimation Using High Frequency Data by Angela Ryu
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? (To the Hospital) Modeling the Impact of Introducing a Telemedicine System in a Remote Amazonian Community by Rollin K Say
Incentives in Professional Tennis: Tournament Theory and Intangible Factors by Steven Everett Seidel and Joshua Farrel Silverman
Market Power & Reciprocity Among Vertically Integrated Cable Providers by Jeffrey Shih-kai Shen
Market entry, a vehicle for innovation? by Maxim Sirenko
Mechanism Design in the Case of Two Objects with the Possibility for Complementarities by Avtar Varma
Do Recessions Improve the Teenage Obesity Rate? by Amy Xiaoyue Zhang
Spring 2010
The Dynamics of Health Care Demand During an Illness Episode by David Benson
Collusion with Three Bidders at First-Price Auctions by Andrew Born
Do Teenagers Exhibit Rational Expectations About Morality, Fertility and Education Outcomes? by Nikolay Braykov
Do Political Connections Help Firms Gain Access to Bank Credit in Vietnam? by David Brunell
Entering the Campus Courtship Culture: Factors that Influence College Students' Relationship Types by Scott Casale
Measuring the Likelihood of Small Business Loan Default: Community Development Institutions and the use of Credit-Scoring to Minimize Default Risk by Andrea Coravos
Crisis Period Forecast Evaluation of the DCC-GARCH Model by Yang Ding and Andrew Schwert
Female Surname Choice: Historical, Cultural, and Branding Influences at Duke University by Corinne Grzybowski and Andrea Coravos
The Determinants and Social Benefit of Student Summer Activity by Elad Gross
The Marital Wage Premium in the Twenty-First Century by Halley Hu and Hans Kist
Oil Prices and Monetary Policy: Counterfactual Monetary Policy Responses to Oil Price Shocks by Ying-te Huang
Forecasting Existing Home Sales Using Google Search Queries by Brian Humphrey
Currency Crisis Early Warning Systems: Robust Adjustments to the Signal-Based Approach by Andrew Kindman
Assessing the Effects of Earnings Surprise on Returns and Volatility with High Frequency Data by Sam Lim
Determinants of Migration: A Case Study of Nang Rong, Thailand by Montira Mahinchai
Spurious Jump Detection and Intraday Changes in Volatility by Matthew Rognlie
Extreme Value Theory with High-Frequency Financial Data by Abhinay Sawant
Rebalancing, Conditional Value-at-Risk, and t-Copula in Asset Allocation by Irvin Wang and Perry Zheng
