2019
The Impact of Immigration on Financial Markets, Jesse Baker
Predictive Distributions via Filtered Historical Simulation for Financial Risk Management, Tyson Clark
The Sue-and-Settle Phenomenon: Its Impact on the Law, Agency, and Society, Katie L. Colton
The Organic Wheat Market: Three Essays on Pricing, Consumer Segments, and the Importance of Labels, Tatiana Drugova
Three Essays on Land Property Rights, Water Trade, and Regional Development, Muyang Ge
The Performance of Military Defense Contracted Companies After September 11th, 2001: The Case of Politically Connected Companies, Derek J. Larsen
Firm Leverage and Performance, Zongbin Li
Minimum Quotation Size and Market Quality: Evidence from the Modern OTC Markets, Kemerey Thompson
2018
Three Essays on the Economics of Controlling Mobile-Source Episodic Air Pollution, Ramjee Acharya
The Industry and Occupation Incidence of State Mandated Maternity Benefits, Adam Bahr
Do Congressmen really drive CARs?, Tyler Brown
The Power Law Distribution of Agricultural Land Size, Lauren Chamberlain
Three Essays in Economics of Prey-Predator Relation, Dong-Hun Go
Executive Portfolio Diversification Through Dividends, Janette Goodridge
Revisiting Corporate Financial Policy and the Value of Cash, Nan Guo
A Return to the Cash Conversion Cycle and Corporate Returns, Madyson McPherson
The Free Cash Flow and Corporate Returns, Sen Na
Institutional Adaptation to Water Scarcity in Utah Irrigation Companies, Grant Patty
Performance of the VIDYA Indicator Using Bootstrap, Lucas Priskos
Renewable Portfolio Standards and Environmental Goals, Josh T. Smith
Lobbying Legislation and Cumulative Abnormal Returns, Brenan Stewart
Insider trading and the STOCK Act Amendment, Josh Wilson
The Effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Common Stock and American Depository Receipts, Bradley David Zynda II
2017
Essays on the Economics of Energy and Transportation, Ryan N. Barnes
The Impact of the 2016 Election on the Financial Performance of Major Healthcare Companies, Joshua T. Blotter
An Examination of the Short Term Reversal Premium, Timothy Burgess
The Efficiency of Liquidity Resiliency, Nathan Burton
Financial Development and the Liquidity of Cross-Listed Stocks; The Case of ADR's, Jed DeCamp
A Different Perspective on the Debate Between Nonprofit and For-Profit Microfinance Organizations, Hane E. de Oliveira Crevelari
Application: Solving for a Local Companys Optimal Storage Strategy, Dakota Ferrin
Implementing the Heston Option Pricing Model in Object-Oriented Cython, Brandon Hardin
Business Development and Entrepreneurship on the Navajo Reservation, Sierra Hoffer
Healthcare Sector Stock Returns and the Election of Donald J. Trump, Cordell Hull
Regulation and Energy Poverty in the United States, Michael C. Jensen
Debt/Equity Ratio and Asset Pricing Analysis, Nicholas Lyle
Gambling with Momentum: How Gambling Cultures Shape Financial Markets, Daniel Mosman
Performance of Statistical Arbitrage in Future Markets, Shijie Sheng
Burning Budgets: Does an Institutional Blank-Check Raise the Severity and Cost of Fighting Wildland Fires?, Devin T. Stein
How High School Records and ACT Scores Predict College Graduation, Lianqun Sun
2016
The CAPM is Not Dead, Muhammad Ahmed Saleem Baig
Price Volatility and Structural Breaks In U.S. Dairy Markets, Morgan James Baldwin
Reanalyzing The Political Stability of Britain's Democratization, Nathan R. Burton
Political Parties and Direct Democracy: An Analysis of the 2015 Greek Referendum, Megan E. Hansen
Object-Oriented Programming: A Method for Pricing Options, Leonard Stewart Higham
Fear-based Policymaking: How Government Agencies Exploit Mortality Risk Perceptions, Alecia M. Hunter
Pre-holiday Anomaly: Examining the pre-holiday effect around Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Scott E. Jones
Three Essays on US Agricultural Insurance, Taehoo Kim
How Good Intentions Backfire: Failures and Negative Consequences of Federal Environment Policies, Jordan K. Lofthouse
Three Essays on Big-Box Retailers and Regional Economics, Denis Peralta
Options Pricing Through Computational Methods, Robert Petty
Analysis of the Relationship Between Economic Freedom and the Stability of Stock Prices, Jinyu Qiu
A Monte Carlo Study on the Persistence of Variance with Garch, Aristides Romero Moreno
Single Stock Futures and Stock Options: Complement or Substitutes, Cuyler Strong
Does The Market Matter for More Than Investment?, Yiwei Zhang
2015
An Extended Look at the Seasonality of Stock Returns, Justin Michael Bagshaw
The Idiosyncratic Volatility Puzzle: A Behavioral Explanation, Brad Cannon
Perpetual Option Pricing Revision of the NPV Rule, Application in C++, Andy Ferguson
Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Returns, Qian Gu
Efficient Parallel Approaches to Financial Derivatives and Rapid Stochastic Convergence, Mario Harper
Assessing the Probability of Bankruptcy, Jarom Heaps
Human Capital, Capital Structure, and Employee Pay: An Empirical Analysis a Replicated Confirmation, Yiling Ke
Corporate Leverage and Taxes around the World, Saralyn Loney
Frictions, the Flow of Information, and the Distribution of Liquidity, Spencer A. Montgomery
Three Essays in Trade and International Development, Nii Amon Neequaye
Water Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, Augustina Yaa Oye Odame
Vas Ist Das. The Turn of the Year Effect: Is the January Effect Real and Still Present?, Michael I. Okonkwo
An Empirical Analysis of Customer Satisfaction in Short Selling, Brian Ramaeker
How Do Choice of Major and Industrial Structure Influence College Graduates' Unemployment Rate In China, Xiuwen Shi
Climate, Latitude and Wealth, Trevor Greg Stringham
Investment Performance of Common Stock in Relation to their Price-Earnings Ratios: BASU 1977 Extended Analysis, Jordan R. Tilley
Discussing Economic Factors' Effects on Personal Saving Rate, Zhong Wang
Decimalization and Illiquidity Premiums: An Extended Analysis, Seth E. Williams
Inverse ETFs and Market Quality, Darren J. Woodward
How Does Untimely Death of an Executive Affect Stock Prices and Company Performance?, Yu Zhang
2014
Friedman's School Choice Theory: The Chilean Education System, Lucinda G. Arveseth
The Shale Boon and the Effects on Energy Markets: A Look Into Natural Gas and Crude Oil Futures and Spot Prices and their Relation to Economic Growth, Jesse Backstrom
Structural Change of the Western United States Alfalfa Hay Market and its Effects of the Western United States Dairy Industry, Joseph Patrick Cann
Predicting Tourist Inflows to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, Using Google Trends, Michelle E. De La Oz Pineda
The Expected Value of an Advantage Blackjack player, Kamron Jensen
The Good News in Short Interest: Ekkehart Boehmer, Zsuzsa R. Huszar, Bradford D. Jordan 2009 Revisited, Jarom Von Julander
Heterogeneity of Emergency Department Use and Cost: Evidence From the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, Colby Russell Kearl
Three Essays on the Economics of Controlling Invasive Species, Yanxu Liu
The Intergenerational Income Elasticity in the NLSY97 Dataset, Christina Mueller
The Zions Direct Bond Auction Platform and Demand from University Investment Programs, Shaun Murdock
A Study in the Urbanization Effect on the Honduran Pricing Mechanism, Sharik L. Peck II
Bayesian Inference: Probit and Linear Probability Models, Nate Rex Reasch
Did Market Quality Change After the Introduction of Leveraged ETF's, Prem Shashi
An Exercise in Bayesian Econometric Analysis Probit and Linear Probability Models, Brooke Jeneane Siler
Optimal Debt-to-Equity Ratios and Stock Returns, Courtney D. Winn
The Empirical Study of Size Effect, Book-to-Market Effect in US Security Market, Zhe Zhao
2013
Volatility of Volatility Structural Parameter Estimation and Subsequent Cross-Sectional Returns, Tyson Van Alfen
Measuring the Environmental Cost of Hypocrisy, Elliot Jordan Anderson
The Effects of Financing Unfunded Social Security with Consumption Taxation when Consumers are Shortsighted, Michael P. Clagg
Investment Performance and Price-Earnings Ratios: Basu 1977 Revisited, Richard John Criddle
Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Aid, and Socioeconomic Infrastructure in Developing Countries, Amrita Ghosh Dastidar
Exposure Changes Tastes: Quality of Life and Economic Freedom, Kayla Dawn Harris