Thesis Awards

The department offers several different awards for students who produce an outstanding thesis during their senior year. Award recipients from the 2011-2012 academic year are listed below along with a short despcription of the award.

Ray O. Werner Thesis Award

Presented to the graduating senior who has written the most outstanding senior thesis.

Devin Nadar: "Stuck in a Rut with Primary Products: The Impact of Colonization on Trade and Growth Patterns"

Yannick Schindler: "Quantitative Measures of Mortgage Market Instability"

Robin Satterwhite Thesis Award

Presented to the graduating senior who has done outstanding innovative independent research, either towards his/her senior thesis or some other economics project.

Cassandra Benson: "Middle School Matters: A Duration Model Analysis of College Enrollments"

Stephen Lagos: "Self-Esteem, Education, and Wages Revisited"

Jerome V. Bruni Research Award

Presented to senior thesis writers who show promise to produce their thesis results in a peer reviewed journal or to present the paper at a peer reviewed academic meeting.

Abdoulaye Dabo: "A Probability Model for Earnings Restatement"

Stephen Lagos: "Self-Esteem, Education, and Wages Revisited"

Yannick Schindler: "Quantitative Measures of Mortgage Market Instability"

Rachel Vitale: "The Economic Efficacy of the Banking Merger Wave: 2006-2008"

Nicole Gurley: "The Idea Epidemic: An Analysis of the Diffusion of Economic Disciplines Using Epidemiological Models"

Elizabeth Claire Preston: "Determinants of Record Breaks in Swimming"

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