Award Winning Theses
The department offers several different awards for students who produce an outstanding thesis during their senior year. Award recipients from the 2012-2013 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.
Elyse Miller: "The Hand of God or Death: Mitigating Earthquake Fatalities Through Aid and Infrastructure"
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.
Namgyal Angmo: "Modeling the Sustainability of Tourism in Leh, India 'The Little Tibet': An Econometric Analysis"
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.
Emil Dimantchev: "Biodiversity Conservation Through REDD+: Modeling Costs of Alternative REDD+ Scenarios in the Tropical Region"
Benjamin Snow: "Tinpots and Tyrants: The Effect of Economic Sanctions on the Longevity of Dictatorial Rule"
Lisa Sundeen: "Relationships Matter: Social Capital and Microfinance"
Daniel Ward "Trading Biopharmaceutical Stocks After Catastrophic One-Day Declines"
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