Undergraduate Awards
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 |
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| 2009 | Jedediah Lewis | Myra Moore | A Theoretical Analysis of Factors Affecting the Incidence of a State-wide Ad Valorem Food Tax with a Tax Rebate (PDF | 972 KB) |
| 2008 | Justin M. Heath | William Phillips | Between Multilateral Institutions and Strategic Interests: The WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding and the Future of Multilateral Liberalization Efforts (PDF | 2.78 MB) |
| Zachary Cohen | Ronald Warren | The Determinants of Financial Literacy (PDF | 1.58 MB) |
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| 2007 | Balaji Narain | William Phillips | Macroeconomic Reforms and India's Exposure to the 1997-1998 East Asian Financial Crisis (PDF | 766 KB) |
| 2006 | Robby Staley | Ronald Warren | Determining Obesity Prevalence Rates: Evidence from OECD Countries (PDF | 1 MB) |
| 2005 | Lindsey Giffin | David Mustard | Economic Freedom and Its Impact on Standard of Living (PDF | 7 MB) |
| 2004 | David E. Pettit | Greg Trandel | The Effects of Dividend Taxation on Corporate Fiscal Policy and Share Price (PDF | 324 KB) |
| 2003 | Jesse Gilbert | Emanuel Ornelas | The Effects on Developing Countries of Multilateral Extension of Intellectual Property Rights by TRIPS (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 (PDF | 13 MB) |
| Kristopher Stevens | Peter Klein | Competition.com: How the Internet Is Changing the Economic Landscape (PDF | 14 MB) [part 2] (PDF | 6 MB) |
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| 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 | Ronald 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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