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
Information Share in Options Markets: The Role of Volume, Volatility, and Earnings Announcements, Lenaye Harris
Pricing and Hedging Asian Options, Vineet B. Lakhlani
Feasibility and Co-Benefits of Biomass Co-Firing: Case in Utah, Bibek Paudel
Business Aviation: Utilization, Benefits, and Value, Tony Roberts
American Option Pricing: A Simulated Approach, Garrett G. Smith
Relationship between Inflation News and High Frequency Stock Returns, Lianqun Sun
Possible Benefits of ADR Issuance: Evidence from Developing Countries, Jiang Zhang
2012
The SHO Goes On: A Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of Uptick-Related Short-Sale Constraints, Alexander James Bylund
How Are Interest Rates Affecting Household Consumption and Savings?, Lacy Christensen
Income Inequality, Welfare Spending, and Globalization, Jennifer Foster
Opaqueness of Financial Institutions, Todd G. Griffith
Is Analyst Over Optimism Creating Price Inefficiency in the Stock Market?, Juan Mauricio Guiliani
Behavioral Life-Cycle Models Under Alternative Demographic Regimes, Timothy F. Harris
The Effect of Kurtosis on the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Abdullah Al Masud
Value at Risk In Dominican Banking: Evaluating the Regulatory Method, Jonathan Medina
The United States Credit Rating Downgrade: European Reaction, Brian Scott Roseman
Options Vs. Futures: Which on Average Will Have the Greater Payoff?, Ryan Silvester
TARP Repayment, Lobbying and Political Connectivity, Ian Simmons
Leveraged ETFs and Intraday Volatility, Adam Welker
Informed Trading During Intraday: The Case of Short Sellers, Yuzhe (Yan) Zhang
2011
Cultural Compatibility: Economic Development in Eastern Europe, Daniel Brilliant
Structural and Reduced-Form Models: An Evaluation of Current Modeling Criteria in Econometric Methods, Ashley M. Funk
Three Essays on the Economic Impact of Bovin Spngiform Encephalopathy in the United States, Rachna Gollamudi
Donor-Side Determinants of Disaggregated Foreign Assistance: A Sur Approach to Understanding U.S. Economic, Military, and Food Aid Commitments, Stephanie Hugie