Honors Presentations

2022 ECONOMICS HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS

All presentations will be in Griffin 6.

Monday, May 16

10:00am Andrew Royek: “Exporting Corruption? Examining the Impact of Trade with China and Russia on Institutional Change in Developing Countries”

11:00am Aidan Lloyd-Tucker: “The Persistence of Paper Leviathans: The Social Contract, State Capacity, and Intergroup Political Economy”

1:00pm Danny Levine: “The Impacts of Wildfires on Educational Attainment”

2:00pm Vanessa Oeien: “The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Labor Supply of Young Adults; A Post-COVID Perspective”

3:00pm Cecilia Junze Xia: “Scope invariance in impact investing”

4:00pm Dalton Yu: “The Impact of Human Capital Investment on the Economic Development of South Korea”

Tuesday, May 17

9:00am Preetul Sen: “The Role of Social Capital on Rule Abidance during the COVID-19 Pandemic”

10:00am Sam Thorpe: “Worker Power and Wage Determination in Imperfect Labor Markets”

11:00am Deven Desai: “The Long Run Effects of Colonization: The Role of Borders”

1:00pm Mina Burns: “Self-Employment, Networks, and Immigration Enforcement”

2:00pm Emma London: “Sustainability and Financial Markets: The Impact of Corporate Net-Zero Commitments on Financial Performance”

3:00pm Ethan Kendall: “Monetary policy, bank lending and wholesale funding”

4:00pm Avivah Malin: “Public Benefits and Recidivism”