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Title: How High School Location Affects Your Odds to Make it to the NBA
Author: Chopra, Rajat
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Some states or metropolitan statistical areas produce more professional athletes when compared to their representation in the population whereas some areas produce less than their represented population. Figure 1 shows the geographical distributio...

Title: Long Term Determinants of Income: Early Career Choices and Their Effect on Future Income
Author: Dickerson, Brian
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The purpose of this thesis was to examine how early career decisions by young adults can affect their long term career outcomes, specifically income twenty years in the future. Previous research dedicated to this area looked at short-term effects....

Title: Price and Prejudice: An Empirical Look at the Value Formation of Bitcoin
Author: Doster, David
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Finance, Economics
Description: Bitcoin price formation has been the topic of many studies due to the recent rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies around the globe. The problem not only lies with attempting to find how the value of this currency is established, but finding a fr...

Title: The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
Author: Grubbs, Samuel
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...

Title: Measuring the Constraint of the Zero lower Bound on Monetary Policy in the United States
Author: Hecksher, Samuel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: After the financial crisis in 2007-2008 the Federal Reserve lowered its target interest rate down to the zero lower bound (ZLB) forcing itself towards unconventional monetary policy. Attempting to mitigate the constraint that is the ZLB, the Fed e...

Title: Improvement of Customer Baseline Calculation Methodologies of Demand Response using Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Packet Transform
Author: Opadere, Johnson
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: Demand response is a reduction in electricity consumption designed to prevent system emergencies stemming from demand spikes during peak periods. While demand response has been embraced as a cheaper alternative than adding peaking generation, the ...

Title: The Influence of Reference Group Contributions on Individual Charitable Giving
Author: Skeate, Keegan
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: The act of giving to charity seems to arise from interpersonal comparisons of relative well-being. The purpose of this study is to test if reference group comparisons of charitable contributions influence the propensity to give to charity. Apart f...

Title: European Firms’ Issuance and Call Policies of Convertible Bonds
Author: Soegaard, Benedikte Kuepper
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Finance
Description: This thesis examines the decision of European firms to issue convertible bonds, theirsubsequent corporate call policy, and whether this differs from the theoretical optimal call policy. The analysis was divided into two parts: Part I focused on th...

Title: Does the value added to GDP from nonprofit institutions decrease Medicaid payouts?
Author: Sullivan, Brian
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Economics
Description: This paper investigates the impact of nonprofit activities, measured by their total contribution to gross domestic product, on poverty, measured by Medicaid payouts. Additional control variables include: the value of the housing stock, the employm...