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Title: Rebalance and Reallocation Behavior Patterns Within Retirement Plans
Author: Graham, Quentin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: I evaluate the determinants that influence the likelihood that an individual rebalances the amounts held in their retirement plan or reallocate the investments they use for future contributions. I do this by analyzing quarterly administrative reco...

Title: Quantifying Bias of the U.S. Media: A Spatial Analysis of Product Differentiation on Social Media
Author: Williams, Emily
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: In this study, I create a measure of ideological bias as a means for U.S. news sources to differentiate their products in the growing digital space. In addition to traditional media platforms, such as newspapers and television broadcasts, I includ...

Title: REDUCING ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Author: Hamilton, Austin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper estimates the effect wage transparency had on Major League Baseballpitcher’s salaries in the mid to late 1980s. The paper implements a conventionalmethod of wage estimation as previously used in the literature. The data, in partare from...

Title: CONSEQUENCES ON LABOR MARKET AND EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES ACROSS RACES AND GENDERS FROM GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL DURING A RECESSION
Author: Baddouh, Priscila
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study investigates the effects of graduating high school during a recession on real wages, educational attainment, and probability of being in five professional occupation fields, most of them high wage occupation fields. I use data from the ...

Title: HAVE HOMEOWNERSHIP RATES TRANSITIONED SINCE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS? EVIDENCE FROM THE SURVEY OF CONSUMER FINANCES DATA.
Author: Amrelle, Kevin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Hispanic Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching
Description: Since 1989, significant mortgage finance innovation and federal policies with the intent of increasing homeownership participation particularly amongst minorities were implemented until the 2007 recession. This paper uses the Survey of Consumer Fi...

Title: MISSIONAL SUBJECTIVITY: NEOLIBERAL HUMAN CAPITAL AND CHRISTIAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
Author: Caro, Lennin
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Religion, Economics
Description: Since 2000, the anthropology of Christianity significantly grew in the scholarly literature. However, there remains this odd gap in examining Christians and their activities in college campuses. This paper attempts to fill this gap by doing ethnog...

Title: AN IMPROVEMENT OF THE LOAD REDUCTION EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES EMPLOYED IN DEMAND RESPONSE (DR) PROGRAMS OFFERED TO RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS
Author: Mohajeryami, Saeed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Economics
Description: In current electricity market, demand side buys power indirectly through electric utilities, and it makes the demand side inelastic to market's price volatility and significantly affects the efficiency of the market. To fix the problem, it is esse...

Title: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF NORWEGIAN HOUSE PRICES
Author: Oeding Amundstad, Kjetil
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This study estimates an econometric model to explain changes in Norwegian house prices. This is useful as it expands the understanding of how and why Norwegian house prices move as they do. The study utilizes Statistics Norway’s house prices Index...

Title: OPERATIONAL LOSSES: LESSONS FROM SEVEN OF THE LARGEST ROGUE TRADING EVENTS IN HISTORY
Author: Morat, Patricio
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics, Industrial management
Description: Operational losses: Lessons from seven of the largest rogue trading events in history. (Under the direction of DR. ROB ROY MCGREGOR)Operational risk is the risk of losses arising from the failure of people, processes, and systems, and from externa...

Title: THE IMPACT OF MANAGERIAL CHANGE ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SOCCER TEAMS – AN EVENT STUDY ON THE TWO TOP TIER SWEDISH DIVISIONS
Author: Roskors, Andre
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This research examines the impact of managerial changes on Swedish soccer teams from the first and second Swedish soccer league. The research is conducted similar to an event study and regression analysis is employed to investigate the impact of t...

Title: STRATEGIES, INCENTIVES, AND DECISIONS: ILLICIT CROP CONTROL IN COLOMBIA
Author: Davalos Alvarez, Eleonora
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This dissertation examines three aspects of coca cultivation in Colombia. Fist, I evaluate how social investment in conjunction with eradication affects new coca crops. The results suggest that aerial spraying is effective in deterring farmers fro...

Title: THE IMPACT OF THE BREXIT REFERENDUM ON VARIOUS WORLD STOCK MARKETS
Author: Arora, Jasleen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The event study methodology is employed to analyze the impact of the British decisionto leave the European Union on various stock market indexes, namely Australia -ALL ORDINARIES; Canada - S&P TSX Composite Index; India - BSE Sensex; NewZealand - ...