Browsing W&L University Student Scholarship by Subject "Washington and Lee University -- Honors in Economics"
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Initial Public Offerings Across Business Cycles
A vast literature exists pertaining to the prediction of stock performance, though a consistent pattern has yet to be found. The efficient market hypothesis provides one possible explanation. IPOs are different, however, ... -
International Commodity Agreements: Key to Development?
This paper has attempted to bring the methods and purposes of international commodity agreements into focus and to thus discover whether they are worth the energy which the poor countries might exert to form them. I have ... -
A Machine Learning Approach to Stock Selection using Technical Analysis (thesis)
This thesis introduces a novel machine learning framework for stock selection that only uses technical indicators and chart patterns as inputs. In contrast to other papers, the machine learning model first employs a recursive ... -
Monopoly Power in the Peruvian Banking Industry: (1990-1995)
The core of the thesis tries to determine the extent to which oligopolization constitutes a problem in the determination of interest rates in Peru. To do this, it uses an econometric model to test the level of competition ... -
Mothers Matter: Mother's Commitment to Children's Educational Outcomes in Ghana (thesis)
In Ghana, with rates of economic inequality increasing, the government has made numerous strides to combat the socioeconomic, gender, and locational discrepancies of educational enrollment and completion to develop into a ... -
Negative Discount Rates for Health Insurance
This paper measures the discount rate of health insurance by surveying. a sample of nearly 1,000 Washington and Lee alumni. We calculated the discount rate from a series of open-ended survey questions, eliminating some of ... -
Pleasure and Pain: The Connection Between Opioid Prescriptions and Social Security Disability Insurance in the U.S.
I examine the connection between prescription opioid use and Social Security Disability Insurance in the United States. Previous research has found that a correlation exists between opioids and disability rates, but little ... -
Potential Policy Options to Improve Sport Fishing in Balbina: A Choice Experiment Analysis
This research is developed within the framework of environmental economics, which attempts to value non market goods that provide individuals with specific values that are not elicited through market transactions. Environmental ... -
Potential Policy Options to Improve Sport Fishing in Balbina: A Choice Experiment Analysis (thesis)
This research is developed within the framework of environmental economics, which attempts to value non market goods that provide individuals with specific values that are not elicited through market transactions. Environmental ... -
Price Dispersion and the Effectiveness of Integration Efforts
Using a specifically developed measure I find evidence that NAFT A, MERCOSUR, and EU membership are significantly correlated with decreased price dispersion. This suggests that these agreements have increased market ... -
Racial Segregation, Employment, and Income in the U.S., 1970-2010 (thesis)
In this paper, I analyze the relationship between racial segregation and income for black and white male workers during this period. I find that racial segregation continues a previously observed downward trend through ... -
Recession Severity and Lagging Employment (thesis)
This paper uses the Current Population Survey to examine the differential experiences of demographic groups following the Great Recession. Geographic variation in recession severity is used to asses the effect of recession ... -
Roads to a Market System: A Study of Economic Transition Policies in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic
After summarizing the economic progress in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic between 1989 and 1994, I will conclude the thesis by returning to the two points emphasized in the introduction: First, in several instances ... -
The Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference Case
On January 29, 1963 the Consolidated Edison Company of New York (hereafter referred to as Con Ed) [1] filed an application before the Federal Power Commission for a license to construct a pumped-storage hydroelectric ... -
The Signaling Effect of Rankings: Evidence from Top 14 Law Schools (thesis)
This thesis examines the effect on career outcomes caused by placing within the top 14 spots on US News & World Reports' law school rankings. We use data from the American Bar Association on class profiles, Bar passage ... -
Social Identity and the Take-Up of Healthcare: Exploring the Intersection of Caste, Gender, and Public Policy in Nepal (thesis)
To reach equality in health outcomes, Nepal -- in concert with most developing countries -- has focused on the decentralization of healthcare. Although accessibility to health services is now relatively uniform, health ... -
A Survival Analysis on the Waiting Lists for Kidney Transplants in the United States: Who Waits the Most? (thesis)
The National Organ Transplantation Act, passed in 1984, continues to be utilized in an effort to address the disparity between the quantity supplied and demanded of kidneys. The National Organ Transplantation Act declared ... -
Tell Me How I'm Supposed to Breed with No Air: Air Pollution and Fertility in the U.S. (thesis)
Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy is known to cause adverse infant health outcomes. However, less is known about the effect of pollution on fertility. In this paper, I use EPA air quality monitor data and NCHS ... -
The Economics of Equal Education Opportunity
There are four primary objectives for this thesis. First, an economic model of learning behavior is developed combining microeconomic theories with economist Gary Becker's theory on the allocation of time. The economic ... -
The Role of Food Production in the Economic Development of West Africa's Sahel Region
One must not forget, therefore, that the Sahel comprises a fragile ecosystem within an area of scarce resources. Much care and understanding, that is to say "good government", is needed if these sparse , resources are to ...