Economics

Undergraduate Awards

University Honors | Outstanding Senior Paper Award | Honors Societies

Outstanding Senior Paper

All economics majors must write a senior research paper. At the conclusion of each academic year, the department reviews all papers written during that year and selects the Outstanding Senior Paper(s). Electronic copies of some of the papers are available by clicking on the titles, which have links.

Year Author Advisor Title
2007 Balaji Narain William Phillips Macroeconomic Reforms and India's Exposure to the 1997-1998 East Asian Financial Crisis Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 766 KB)
2006 Robby Staley Ron Warren Determining Obesity Prevalence Rates: Evidence from OECD Countries Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 1 MB)
2005 Lindsey Giffin David Mustard Economic Freedom and Its Impact on Standard of Living Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 7 MB)
2004 David E. Pettit Greg Trandel The Effects of Dividend Taxation on Corporate Fiscal Policy and Share Price Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 324 KB)
2003 Jesse Gilbert Emanuel Ornelas The Effects on Developing Countries of Multilateral Extension of Intellectual Property Rights by TRIPS Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 10 MB)
2002 Divya Balakrishnan Santanu Chatterjee A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Abridging Intellectual Property Rights to Contend with National Health Care Emergencies in the Developing World Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 13 MB)
  Kristopher Stevens Peter Klein Competition.com: How the Internet Is Changing the Economic Landscape Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 14 MB)
[part 2] Adobe Acrobat icon (PDF | 6 MB)
2001 Brooke Wells Chris Cornwell Merit-Based Financial Aid, College Choice, and the Returns to Schooling
2000 Whitney Allen Scott Atkinson Effects of Various Auctions on Consumer Prices
  Jeffrey Slone Ron Warren The Effects of Budget Deficits on Growth Rates
1999 Shawn Shelton Bill Lastrapes The Secondary Market for CDs and the Music Industry
1998 Trent Storino Larry White Does a Band Profit from the Taping of Its Live Performances?
  Michael Hill Scott Atkinson The Effects of Three Government Regulations on the Retail Price of Liquor
1997 Brent Galeano Peter Klein Is Agency Theory Playing a Role in Executive Compensation Plans?

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