2022
Evaluating Short Term Effects of Opportunity Zone Designation, Sarah M. Bennett
Do Board Diversity and Gender Quotas Affect Firm Value? Evidence from California Assembly Bill No. 979, Emily Kelleen Blake, Sepideh Raei, Katarzyna A. Bilicka, and Todd Griffith
Do Rational Agents Steal, Randy Hill
Oaths and Evasion: Variable Honesty in Tax Evasion Games, Logan Krebs
Medicaid Expansion: Changes in Individual Health Outcomes, Julie Norman
2021
Forecasting Stock Market Prices: A Machine Learning Approach, Abraham Alhomadi
Predictive Modeling for Real Estate Days on Market, Jeffrey Brann
A Reexamination of the Illiquidity Premium in Cryptocurrencies, Wyatt Fitz
Exploiting a Grading Policy Shift as an Instrument to Estimate Impact of Grading on Teacher Evaluations, Gavin Johnson
Retail Trading and Stock Volatility: The Case of Robinhood, Cooper Jones
Corporate Venture Capital and Its Effects on Company Valuation - An Analysis of the Additions of CVC Arms, Joshua Lyman
The Volatility Implications of the Chinese Cryptocurrency Ban, Keaton Manwaring
The Demographic Effect of Minimum Wage: Evidence from San Francisco County, Poorya Mehrabinia
Willingness to Pay for Fact-Checking About Immigration: The Effect of Partisan Cues, Jennifer Morales
COVID-19 Outcomes and the Incidence of Slavery, Amanda Ortega
Pharmaceutical Stock Prices around Medicare Part D Expansion, Spencer Powell
The Effects of Bank Lobbying and Elections Surprises, Gregory Logan Tarbet
Risk_dash, A Python Framework to Model Portfolio Risk, Alexander van Oene
Short Selling Around Reverse Stock Splits, Ryan Voges
2020
Black-Scholes and Neural Networks, Gabriel Adams
Political Connections and Abnormal Stock Returns: An Analysis of the Trump Nominations, Kennon Bacon
Testing Investment Strategies for Superior Predictive Ability, Jack K. Baldwin
Brexit and the Effects on European ADRs vs British ADRs, Matthew Clint Bisbee
Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Futures Hedging, Evan Bullard
We Can Use Machine Learning to Determine Which Financial Ratios are Best for Investors, Collin Butterfield
Industry Stock Prices around Covid-19, Daniel Cardall
The Relative Industry Specific Effects of COVID-19 on Market Volatility and Liquidity, Callin Christensen
Banking Scandals and Abnormal Cumulative Returns: An Analysis of the Wells Fargo Fraud Scandal, Heather Christensen
Mass Shootings and the Performance of Tourism Stocks, Marshall Deem
Reexamining Metallgesellschaft’s Hedging Policy: Does Anything Beat a One-For-One Hedge Ratio?, Christopher Haddock
Abstention and Costly Information Acquisition in Elections, Jacob Meyer
Implementing Option Pricing Model, Zhao Ming
Executive Compensation Incentives Impact on the Tone and Readability of Financial Reports, Xiaoyan Mi
2019
The Impact of Immigration on Financial Markets, Jesse Baker
Deep Reinforcement Learning Pairs Trading, Andrew Brim
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 Political Business Cycle: Endogenous Election Timing & Hyperbolic Memory Discounting, Jake R. Cottle
The Effects of Fluctuations in Federal Revenue Sharing Payments Made to Rural Counties on School District Budgets, Camille Harmer
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
Industry Compliance Costs Under the Renewable Fuel Standard: Evidence from Compliance Credits, Arthur R. Wardle
2018
The Industry and Occupation Incidence of State Mandated Maternity Benefits, Adam Bahr
Do Congressmen Really Drive CARs?, Tyler Brown
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
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
How Good Intentions Backfire: Failures and Negative Consequences of Federal Environmental Policies, Jordan K. Lofthouse
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
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