Guide to the Stanford University, Department of Economics, Honors Theses
Theses pre-1989
Angelillo, Neil, Tax Reform and Real Estate: The Effect on REITs. June 4, 1987
Bakkensen, Ralph, A comparative analysis of the impact on social welfare of Oregon's "Bottle Bill" and Washington's "Model Litter Control Act". June 6, 1973
Basham, Mindy, Interstate Banking: A Time for Change. June 1, 1984
Bertelson, Robert C., An Analysis of the Impact of Money Market Funds on Financial Intermediation in the United States. June 4, 1982
Christopher, Robert Artie, Garlic in Gilroy: an analysis of the American fresh garlic industry. Anna Laura Myers Prize. May 1976
Cooperman, Wayne, Commodity Bonds as a New and Betther Method of Lending to the Third World. 1988
Corl, James S., The Tax Reform Act of 1986: Capital and the Prospects for Fairness, Simplicity, and Growth. 1988
Covinton, Matthes S., Political Business Cycles in the United States. 1988
Ernst, Joanne Alice, An analysis of increasing concentration in the United States brewing industry. [missing] June 1982
Fairlie, Robert, The Demand for Direct Service Airline Travel. June 4, 1987
Fenyo, Kenneth, Fairness, Simplicity and Growth: The Politics and Economics of Tax Reform. 1988
Flamm, Ken, Cows and conflict: the political economy of beef consumption in Chile. June 1973
Gash, John, A Test of Semi-Strong Form Efficiency in the Stock Market. 1988
Harrison, Craig R., The determining of program structure and benefit liberality of unemployment insurance in the United States. Anna Laura Myers Prize. May 1976
Hellman, Robert B. Jr., Investment Durability Bias, An Analysis of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981. June 4, 1982
Horn, Michael, An analysis of gold markets. 1979
Hu, Wei-Yin, Wage, Employment and Gender Effects of Comparable Worth in San Jose. 1988
Ingram, William D., Regional economic integration in Western Africa Ghana, and the Ivory Coast: a case study. Anna Laura Myers Prize. 1979
Johnson, Diane C., Educational Reform: Bringing Efficiencey to Schools. June 1, 1984
Kriger, Adam M., Education Production Functions: the Educational Economies of Integration. 1988
Luczo, Stephen James, An economic explanation of the Black fertility decrease in the U. S. South 1895-1940.
Mason, Herbert O., Farm labor unionism in the Kern county table grape industry: an economic perspective. May 1971
Matheson, Scott, Interfuel Competition and Energy Concentration. Anna Laura Myers Prize. October 1974
Miller, Timothey M., The Japanese Success in the American Auto Market. 1988
Miracky, William, Stabilization Policy in the Open Economy Under Imperfect Capital Mobility. June 1987
Moghadam, Kimya, The Latin American Debt Crisis. June 1984
Muth, Daniel F., An Analysis of the Interaction of Stock Market Prices with Real Macro-economic Behavior. 1988
Page, John M., Jr., The automobile assembly industry and regional economic growth in northern Chile. May 1970
Raphael, Scott D., An economic analysis of the air traffic congestion problem at Los Angeles International Airport: seeking a short-rn solution. Anna Laura Myers Prize. 1979
Rasinki, Susan, Foreign Debt: Factors Leading up to Mexico's 1982 Financial Crisis. 1984
Ratner, Morrie, Optimial Liability in the Asbestos context. 1988
Sidak, Joseph Gregory, Antitrust treble damages and economic efficiency. Anna Laura Myers Prize. 1977
Simon, Perry, Market population and radio programming diversity: a theoretical, empirical, and policy analysis. Anna Laura Myers Prize. 1977
Slipe, Rebecca, Closing the Wage Gap. The Experience of the 1980s. 1988
Stupfel, Mark J., The nature of exposure and optimal hedging strategies for a trading firm. [missing] May 1981
Vayle, Eric J., Specific Factors in Britain: Explaining the Relation of Sectoral Upheaval to the Economic Decline of Late-Victorian Britain. 1988
Wernecke, William A., The mixed corporation model in Brazil: a case analysis of three state steel firms. 1964-1976. Anna Laura Myers Prize. 1977
Wymore, Bruce Edward, The Role of Expected Inflation and Consumer Uncertainty in Determining Consumption Behavior. Anna Laura Myers Prize. June 1975
Accession ARCH-1989-116 Theses
Al-Jubeir, Mahar, The Hidden Cost of Taxing Oil Imports: Analyzing the Oil Import Tax. May 1989
Chang, Steven, Security Market Returns: An Application of the Switching Regression Model with Endogenous Multiswitching. May 1989
Gerstman, Gary D., Western Joint Ventures in the USSR: An Evaluation of Problems and Prospects. May 1989
Hedien, Mark J., Lending to Latin American Governments 1820-1914: Penalties for Default. May 1989
Honerkamp, John, Listen to the Technology: A Case Against Federal Funding of Commercial R&D. 1989-90
Jones, Christopher L., Nonlinear Neural Network Models for Economic Time Series Analysis. May 1989
Lau, Lucius B., An Analysis of Trad Policy and the US Steel Industry. June 1989
Levey, Brian H., Should We Throw "Sand in the Gears"?: An Analysis of Financial Regulatioin in Wake of Black Monday. June 1989
Mayer, Lloyd, Poverty in the United States: A Public Policy Approach. May 1989
Moss, Jonathan, Is a Housing Allowance a Satisfactory Response to Our Nation's Housing Crisis. 1989
Norris, Craig D., Winner Takes All: College Football Television in the Aftermath of 'NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. May 1989
Schmidt, Stephen, The Sensitivity of the United States to Income Inequality, 1964-1982. May 1989
Taychakhoonavudh, Neeracha, Thailand's Development As A Newly Industrialized Country. May 1989
Accession ARCH-1990-132 Theses
Barnett, Steven, Regional Decentralization of the Soviet Economy. 1990
Beasley, Allen, Health Care Market Failures in the US: Problems of Cost-containment and Access. 1990
Bhattacharya, Jayanta, Medical Malpractice Risk and Physician Specialty Choice: A Study. 1990
Bridwell, Paul, A Financial Analysis of Capital Intensity in the Integrated circuit Industry. 1990
Epstein, Rebecca L., An Evaluation of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act: The Effects on the Value of Thrift Institutions. 1990
Feferman, Flavio, A Regional Profile of Technology in Brazilian Agriculture with Some Implictions for Rural Employment. 1990
Gustafson, Stephen Philip, An Analysis of the Integrated Circuit Industry in the United States and Japan: The Role for US Government Policy. 1990
Jones, David L., Industry Effects of the Switch from Fixed to Floating Exchange Rate Regimes on the Volatility of Equity Risk Premiums. 1990
Lee, Julie Juhyun, Empirical Performance of the Efficient Contract Model of Union-Management Bargaining. 1990
Lim, Jae Y., Regression Analysis on Medicare Expenditures and the Effect of the Prospective Payment System. 1990
Sarathy, Sanjay, An Economic Analysis of India's Foreign Exchange Regulatory Act of 1973. 1990
Sarkis, Ziad, Pure Expectations. 1990
Strumpf, Koleman, Towards an Effort System of Economic Justice. 1990
Vazquez, Mitchelle, The Impact of Corporate Takeovers on Labor in the United States. 1990
Waggoner, Ellen, The Performances of the American and British Television Industries: An Economic Analysis of their Differing Program Mixes. 1990
Accession ARCH-1991-092 Theses
Akers, Kim, Overpaid Boys or Underpaid Men: The Salary Determination Process in the NBA. 1991
Berk, Karen, Bank Reform: Inaction due to Econmoic and Political Conflict. 1991
Blosser, Shawn, Privation in East Germany: What Makes it So Special?. 1991
Bok, Tomas, Reforming the Polish Economic System. 1991
Boone, Torrence, The Impact of Risk Aversion on the Distributional Patterns of Blacks in the Labor Market. 1991
Cha, Joseph, Below-Cost-Timber-Sales: Economic and Environmental Consequences. 1991
Chang, David, A comparison of Optimal and Heuristic Search Strategies. 1991
Diffendal, Ed, Conclusion and Implications of the Random Walk Hypothesis for the Casual Investor. 1991
Dirks, David, The Future of Fiscal Sovereignty in the European Monetary Union Lessons Learned from the United States. 1991
Feldman, Andrew, Environmental Degredation and High Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. 1991
Fisher, Mark, The Passing of the Lords of the Lakes and Forests: An Institutional Analysis of the Competition and Collusion in the Canadian Fur Trade, 1800-1825 . 1991
Goldin, Jay R., Harnessing the Hong Kong Economy: The Monetary and Exchange Regime Challenges. 1991
Henisz, Witold J., Olympic Myth and Olympic Reality. 1991
Hsaio, Monica, Institutional Investors' Role in Corporate governance: A Survey of th Trends of Institutional Share-Ownership of Large US Corporations . 1991
Kafka, Steven J., Balance or Bias?: The Use of Economic Analysis as a Political Tol in Environmental Policymaking. 1991
Lam, Tuam, The Economics of Cooperatives. 1991
Lee, YongJae, The Industrial Development of South Korea. 1991
Lipschultz, Marc, A Comprehensive Real Estate Pricing Model. 1991
Maggioncaldo, Jeff, Locational Value of Commercial Real Estate in the Twin Cities. 1991
Malueg, Debbie, The Economy of Major League Baseball. 1991
Morgan, Sussana M., The Determinants of Direct Foreign Investment in Finance: An Empirical Study of US Bank Expansion in Developing Countries and the Impact of Host Country Regulations . 1991
Noor, Waseem, Investigating the Social and Environmntal Impacts of Development Projects: A Case Study of the Sardar Sarovar Dam Project. 1991
Rabin, Bradford, Examining the Cost Effectiveness of Comprehensive Prenatal Care for the Poor. 1991
Rosen, Rick, Understanding the Development of the Bahamas: A Structuralist Approach. 1991
Rossol, Joshua, Human Sponges: Labor Subcontracting in the United STates Nuclear Power Industry. 1991
Shirley, Chad, The Allocation of Airside and Terminal Capacity at Bay Area Airports. 1991
Tan, Kokhuan, Links Between National Stock Markets. 1991
Watts, C. Christopher, Setting Priorities for Health Care Provision to the Poor: Theory and Application to Medical Reform in Oregon. 1991
Accession ARCH-1992-099 Theses
Arney, Richard B., Parallel Developments in the History of Scientific and Economic Thought, Focusing on Rene Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton, Adam Smith, and David Ricardo . April 1992
Barsa, Michael Roland, Transportation and the Environment in the European Community. March 1992
Christofferson, Scott, Efficiency Consequences of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Post-Deregulation Airline Industry. May 1992
Cohen, Jennifer Gail, Assessing the Causes of US Hospital Closures in the 1990s. Spring 1992
Gay, Claudine, Towards the Small Family Norm. An Easterlin and Crimmins' Interpretation of Fertility Trends in Haiti. May 1992
Grigg, Dana Joelee, Exchange Rate Volatility and Quantitative Trade Restrictions: Implications for the GATT. June 1992
Hoshen, Gur, Household Time Allocation, Education, and Their Effects on Child Achievement. May 1992
Lehavi, Ari, Inflation Gone Rampant: Stabilizing the Israeli Economy, 1960-1991. May 1992
Ng, Anita, Liberalization of China: The Tax Question with Hong Kong. June 1992
Palmer, Jeremy, South Korean Strategic Economic Planning: 1962-1990; A Qualified Miracle. June 1992
Rai, Ashok S., Are Democracies More Successful Than Dictatorships at Reducing Chronic Poverty?. May 1992
Rieder, Alyssa C., Reforming the Federal Deposit Insurance System. May 1992
Tolman, Brett, An Analysis of Physical Deliver on Energy Futures Traded on teh New York Mercantile Exchange. Spring 1992
Tsai, Wilson, Leverage and Investment Opportunities: An Empirical Study of the Free Cash Flow Theory of Capital Structure. Spring 1992
Wong, Andrew Kai-Tek, Real, Monetary, and External Sources of Business Cycles in Hong Kong. May 1992
Accession ARCH-2011-152 Theses
Dang, Ky, Forecasting the growth of the Internet: a diffusion model approach. 1996
Danilchouk, Victoria I., Technical change and the nature of competition: electronic stock brokerage. 1997
Dave, Rishsi, Patterns of success in the Indian software industry. 1996
Dmitriev, Kirill, Small-scale privatization in Ukraine: theory and practice. 1996
Griffin, Devin, Has Ghana positioned its tourism industry to generate sustainable economic development?. 2002
Hudson, Charles, Brazil in the world economy: a survey of the historical path of development and a discussion of Brazil's prospects under Mercosur. 1998
Leventis, Andrew Vernon, Unemployment insurance recipiency in California: a macro and micro evaluation of the state's recent experience. 1993
Llata, George G., Corporate tax integration: the quest to end the double taxation of capital income. 1997
McNary, Robert, The network penetration effects of telecommunications privatization and competition. undated [2000?]
Miller, Conrad, Teacher sorting and own-race teacher effects in elementary school. 2009
Rickertsen, Kathryn Y., Virtually true: children's acquisition of false memories in virtual reality. undated [2008?]
Halweil, Brian, Huertos familiares: biointensive farming in Mexico: household food production as a means to improve health, income and the environment . 1997
Baeck, Lawrence Keith Eitan, Cigarette demand and government intervention: an examination of state cigarette demand function response to tax increases. undated [1994?]
Bennett, Bob M., The Egyptian 1952 agrarian reform and the Japanese 1946 agrarian reform: a comparative study. 1984
Covaci, Mihail A., Devising an effective package of active labor market policies in a transition economy: an empirical analysis of the determinants of unemployment duration in Romania . 1998
Najda, Charles, Low-cost carriers and low fares: competition and concentration in the U.S. airline industry. 2003
Nardinelli, Kate, Do analyst earnings forecast revisions reflect the information contained in stock prices?. 2002
Poon, Julian Wing-Kai, Allocative efficiency and economic growth: the role of education in the economic development of Singapore. 1996
Shotts, Jeffrey A., A study of price dispersionh in the domestic airline industry. undated [1998]
Silverman, Jennifer, Genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer. 2002
Weller, John B., A study of tourism and its effect on the economy of Ely, Minnesota. 1997
Ng, Betty, The potential effects of Korean reunification on South Korean trade. 1993
Khedekar, Sumit, Pricing sovereign debt as an option: theory and evidence.
Yasuda, Ayako, The performance and roles of Japanese development banks. 1993
Tilton, Andrew, From socialism to capitalism: unique characteristics of the Eastern German transition to a market economy. 1993
Wan, Donna, Rural women's employment in China under the reforms. 1993
Skuble, Nadine F., University technology licensing: a case study of Stanford's OTL. 1994
McCarroll, Steven Andrew, Capacity, competition and price determination in residential real estate brokerage. 1993
Jayaratnam, Ashwini, How does the black market exchange premium affect foreign direct investment (FDI)?. 2003
Liu, Ben, Product market monopoly and worker compensation: are labor unions required for monopolies to share rents with workers?. 2001
Vardy, Nicholas A., Hungarian enterprise behaviour, Oskar Lange's model of market socialism and the 'soft' budget constraint. 1987
Ahoobim, Oren, Social Security reform: understanding the risks and tradeoffs. 1998
Jain, Vinita, The influence of socioeconomic status and cultural variables on tumor size at diagnosis of breast cancer patients in India. 2000
Dworniak, Maciej W. T., The performance of initial public offerings in the United States and in Poland. 1998
Cottrill, Lance, The price- and profit-concentration relationships in banking. 1994
Chen, Johnny P., Non-performing loan securitization in the People's Republic of China. 2004
Ye, Lei (Sandy), U.S. trade policy and the Pacific Rim, from Fordney-McCumber to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962: a political-economic analysis. 2007
Silverstein, Dana Lyn, The paradox of cooperation in prisoner's dilemma experiments. 1998
Voicu, Cristian, The dynamics of procurement auctions. 2002
Vernon, Jessica , Quantitative restrictions and quality upgrading: the case of the Multi-Fibre Agreement . 2008
Takapong, Saranwut, The "common lender effect": are banking centers crisis carriers?. 2008
Sheu, Wendy, Driving away inequities: uncovering the distributional effects of a gasoline tax. 2003
Stamatian, Andrei, Determinants of bank interest rate spreads and profitability in Romania, 1991-1999. 2000
Campbell, Stewart A., Price effects surrounding composition changes of the S&P 500: aggregate effects since 1999. 2002
Okafor, Chika, Degrees of separation: an alternate cause of discrimination. 2007
Cho, Ann, An empirical study of the effect of downloads on CD album sales. 2004
Warren, Emily, What does migration mean for children left behind? Educational evidence from Guatemala. 2008
Fielding-Singh, Vikram, Reputation buildgin as counterterrorism: theory and evidence. 2005
Droesch, Audrey, Hollywood north: the impact of costs and demarcation rules on the runaway film industry. 2002
Fisher, Douglas, The effects of reimbursement on treatment decisions and outcomes of heart attack patients. 1998
Bishop, Ellie, Angel investors, risk, and social networks. 2001
Campbell, Michelle, Hong Kong, China, and technological change: an application of the product cycle model. 1996