Theses Titles 2004-14
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| Name | Year | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Abdullah Faiz, Ezwan Amzar | 2013 | Sowing philanthropy: An empirical analysis of Reed College young alumni giving |
| Agamalian, Gregory Mark | 2005 | The effect of urban stream shade coverage on property values : a hedonic property analysis of an urban watershed in southeast Portland, Oregon |
| Alexy, Elizabeth M. | 2008 | Consumer demand for local and organic food |
| Ali, Ahsan | 2004 | The effects of regime change on the level of corruption in government |
| Amarteifio, Nii Amartey | 2009 | The role of foreign direct investment : a sub-Saharan perspective |
| Anderson, Casey | 2013 | The effect of fixed and mobile telecommunications on economic productivity |
| Anderson, Michael W. | 2005 | Development effort and prospect giving : absolute and marginal effects |
| Angelova, Elica Yordanova | 2009 | The effects of European union accession announcements on foreign direct investment in Bulgaria |
| Armstrong, Timothy B. | 2007 | Federal research funding and patenting in U.S. universities |
| Azhar, Zara | 2007 | The parallel existence of the formal and informal credit markets in Pakistan |
| Azike, Onyeka | 2010 | Regulating the shark fin market in China |
| Bica-Huiu, Alina | 2004 | Toward a common security and defense policy : the puzzle of political and military integration in the EU |
| Bittaker, Amanda | 2008 | Corruption, aid, and growth |
| Blair, Caroline | 2014 | The United States of Hollywood: An analysis of motion picture tax competition |
| Bloomquist, Lauren | 2012 | Willingness to pay for ecoroofs in the Portland, Oregon condominium market |
| Breyer, Elizabeth Yancey | 2005 | Political economy of biodiesel in the United States and Germany |
| Brito Rodriguez, Juan Bernardo | 2010 | Human capital in Ecuador : returns to schooling and a growth accounting exercise |
| Buchholz, Martis | 2013 | An examination of rational speculative bubble models: Early rational bubble models, herding, and heterogeneous beliefs |
| Bufithis-Hurie, Daniel | 2009 | An economic analysis of the U.S. health insurance system |
| Burrell, Brian | 2006 | Islamic equity investments : financial performance and impact on firm behavior |
| Calasicas, Alyssa Natividad | 2011 | The implicit effects of variations in federal and state income taxes on charitable contributions |
| Calenzani, Jonathan | 2012 | Two tales of one city: Economic and architectural analysis of New York City housing prices |
| Capalino, Reid F. | 2007 | Canada's changing energy intensity : another way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions |
| Carter, James | 2008 | A tale of three cities : public-private partnerships in municipal wireless networks |
| Case, Molly Rose | 2012 | The benefits of implementing sustainable financial models in small nonprofit organizations |
| Chai, Jonathan Joon Hyung | 2014 | International spillovers of United States quantitative easing policy: An examination of emeerging economy equity markets |
| Chan, Jessica Ying | 2009 | The welfare of the elderly in rural China : the impacts of coresidence and financial transfers on health |
| Chandler-Klein, Nicholas | 2009 | Predictive validity of the new SAT reasoning test |
| Chau, Stacey Dee | 2008 | Capital controls and globalization : capital account spatial interdependence and growth |
| Chlapowski, Roland | 2004 | What is economic success? : a theoretical and empirical investigation of the measurement of economic progress and human wellbeing |
| Cleff, Lauren | 2004 | The Nicaraguan small farmer meets the world market |
| Colt, David | 2008 | Factors affecting cost in solar photovoltaic installations |
| Conour, Garret A. | 2013 | Predicting consumer welfare loss in a hypothetical Chinese rare earth embargo |
| Cressey, Monique J. | 2004 | Geographic variation in physician density and the corresponding relationship to health outcomes : an exploratory study of the U.S. |
| Deane, Kathryn Chandler | 2009 | How liberal arts colleges respond to periods of economic decline |
| Delaney, Jess | 2013 | Markov chain Monte Carlo and the Black-Scholes formula |
| DeRosa, Lauren | 2013 | The creative labor market in Portland, Oregon |
| Devaney, Josh | 2010 | National innovation systems and the migration of the highly skilled |
| Dhama, Anjuli C. | 2014 | Questioning fir trade chocolate: An economic analysis on food price policy and alternative trading methods |
| Dong, Michelle | 2008 | An economics representation of plastics recycling methods |
| Drake-McLaughlin, Nicholas Daniel | 2009 | The effects of walkability on single-family residential sale prices in Portland, Oregon |
| Dubay, Andrew | 2011 | Malthusian models in modern Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Elias, Nisma | 2012 | Competition in microfinance: Complexities and caveats |
| Fefeti, Selorm | 2011 | Outcome-uncertainty and game-day attendenance in the national football league |
| Fernández-Díaz, José Manuel | 2008 | The demand for gasoline in Ecuador |
| Finken, River | 2009 | Sales taxes and the household savings rate |
| Forsythe y Korzeniewicz, Gabriel Czeslaw | 2012 | Global gender wage inequality, 1979-2009 |
| Gallagher, Kevin Yoshiaka | 2014 | The valuation of mortgage-backed securities: Correctly pricing associated risks |
| Geiger, Colin | 2004 | NAFTA's effect on the structure of Mexico's economy |
| Gibbs, Christa Nicole | 2008 | An investigation of the relationship between tax progressivity and college enrollments |
| Gidycz, Daniel C. | 2006 | Interest rates and deficit expectations using real-time data |
| Giffin, Allison | 2014 | Lessons in growing up: Assessing optimal growth scenarios within Portland's urban growth boundary |
| Green, Donald S. | 2004 | Principal agent theory: Case study of the Presidio Trust |
| Green, Ellen Martin | 2009 | The public good : rationales and mechanisms for distributional weighting in public sector CBA |
| Gustafson, Lars | 2010 | Lessons from the Oregon health plan on extending medical coverage to the uninsured |
| Gwati, Ranganai | 2007 | Prediction and parameter estimation in the presence of missing data |
| Hadley, Bryson | 2004 | Tax evasion and hidden economic activity in the United States |
| Hakim, Zakir Khozem | 2011 | Foreign direct investment in the Chinese and Indian automotive industries |
| Hamilton, Brandon | 2010 | Signaling value to venture capital investors: The Zipcar case |
| Hand, Joseph A. | 2009 | Creative destruction in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework : evaluation through calibration and simulation |
| Harkins, Johannes | 2014 | Testing the efficiency of sports betting markets: An examination of National Football League and English Premier League betting |
| Harvey, Melody Antionette | 2010 | Feasibility of renter equity programs in Portland, Oregon, given housing and socio-economic characteristics of long-term renters |
| Hedman, Carl Gunnar | 2013 | A reinvestigation of the effects of neighborhood on employment and earnings outcomes in the interim period of the Move to Opportunity experiment |
| Hechtel, Tristan Gregory | 2014 | Income-based tuition repayment: A critical analysis |
| Hemmings, Alexandra Jane | 2014 | The real cost of parking: Two case studies in Portland, OR |
| Hintz, Mark | 2012 | Fear and fortune in the political economiy of civil war: Evidence on the correlates of civil war from Sierra Leone and Ghana |
| Hoel, Jessica B. | 2005 | Testing the effects of U.S. presidential election expectations on exchange rates |
| Hoffman, Alexandra Ellen | 2006 | Historic preservation and the housing market: A hedonic study of the historic preservation property tax freeze in Portland, OR |
| Hopkins, Katherine R. | 2004 | An economic analysis of academic departments in a liberal arts college |
| Howard, Sean Arthur | 2013 | A theory and practice of money laundering |
| Hoyman-Browe, Alanna Marguritte | 2014 | Intimate partner violence: Evidence from the National Violence Against Women survey |
| Hu, Weiqi | 2014 | Innovation and information communication technology in China |
| Iselin, John | 2014 | Renewable portfolio standards: Examining the effect of state policy on reweable electrical capacity |
| Ivanov, Alexander | 2004 | Bank deregulation revisited: Relationship banking and the bank merger wave in the U.S. |
| Ivanov, Svetoslav | 2013 | Identification and estimation of the effects of fiscal policy shocks |
| Jackson, David | 2009 | Production effects of U.S. agricultural program payments : an empirical examination |
| Janicki, Martha | 2014 | Hidden status? The role of male circumcision in the Zambia marriage market prior to the introduction of VMMC |
| Jarrad, Maya | 2014 | Valuation of urban stream restoration in the Johnson Creek Watershed: A repeat sale hedonic hybrid analysis |
| Jennings, Eric Michael | 2014 | Inequality, norms, and taxation: Evidence from top shares of income and wealth, 1900-2013 |
| Jiang, Lai | 2013 | An empirical study of whether U.S. states reformed eminent domain laws in response to the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Kelo v New London |
| Jin, Jason | 2014 | College income premium trend and skill-biased technological change |
| Jones, Alden | 2013 | Time-varying risk premia and the euro: A state-space model |
| Jones, Alexander Isaac | 2007 | Crime and opportunity |
| Jones, Nathan Anthony | 2009 | Corporate social responsibility: A case study in the stone industry |
| Jurculet, Andreea | 2008 | Fedspeak: The response of interest rates to FOMC communication |
| Kachroo-Levine, Kirin | 2012 | A study of state renewable portfolio standard variation and renewable energy certificate pricing |
| Kahn, Robert J. | 2011 | War, oil, and railroads : industrialization and the building blocks of city growth in the former U.S.S.R. |
| Kaminsky, Marina Elizabeth | 2014 | Conditional cash transfers and education outcomes for the poor: An analysis of Bono 10 Mil in Honduras |
| Karabaic, Lillian Anastasia | 2013 | Let's get physical: A valuation of bikeability in Portland's apartment rental market |
| Keeler, Mallory J. | 2009 | Estimating the effects of the federal estate tax on charitable behavior : evidence since EGTRRA 2001 |
| Kennedy, Cody Brewster | 2007 | Institutional restraint and water privatization in Latin America |
| Khadka, Upasana | 2009 | The effects of relief mechanisms from double taxation on foreign direct investment |
| Kim, Bryan | 2014 | The effects of exchange rates on intrafirm trading by multinational corporations: Evidence from U.S. trade in 1985-2010 |
| Kincaid, Michael Scott | 2013 | Is the euro oprimal? An examination of trade and cycles in Europe |
| King, Aaron | 2014 | What's a meta for? Modeling player learning in rock-paper-scissors |
| Kling, David | 2007 | Valuing views form single-family homes in Portland, OR |
| Korada, Shruti | 2014 | Determinants of intergenerational coresidence in urban China: A closer look at older women and young households |
| Koskores, Thomas A. | 2014 | Zipf's law and international integration: An exploration of the rank-size distribution for cities |
| Kundu, Jayeeta | 2004 | Thinner is better: A study of liquid crystals and the liquid crystal display |
| Kuznik, Ferdinand N. | 2004 | Electronic-trading: An efficient alternative to open-outcry? |
| Larue, Ian Tyson | 2007 | A penny for your thoughts: Estimating the impact of a patent grant on firm value |
| Laughton, Jeremy | 2013 | Negligent hiring and the effectiveness of legal incentives |
| Lee-Wunderlich, Nicholas C. | 2008 | The effect of a biomass value on optimal timber rotation |
| Lenci, Nicholas | 2008 | Viability of Massachusetts health care reform |
| Levin, Zachary | 2011 | Economic determinants of antidepressant utilization |
| Lingerfelt, Joshua Michael | 2008 | Retail electrical deregulation in Texas |
| Liu, Su | 2013 | Schrodinger's hat: Decision making and uncertainty in real and virtual worlds |
| Lopez Vivas, Luis Eduardo | 2012 | Government spending in oil-exporting countries |
| Lopez, Michelle | 2009 | Congestion pricing at Seattle-Tacoma airport |
| Lucas, Kelsey | 2011 | Access to nature and its effect on student performance in Portland public schools |
| Lynch, William Finn | 2014 | Connecting to modernity: The Internet's role in Chinese economic development |
| Madar, Laurel Marie | 2005 | Individual action, segregation and gentrification |
| Marazi, Farai M. | 2008 | Determinants of adherence to antiretroviral therapy among people with HIV and AIDS: A case study of a Zimbabwean community |
| Mashungu, Tinashe | 2009 | Structural adjustment and debt |
| May, Alexander Lewis | 2013 | Big money, big trouble: Protectionism and national security concerns in FDI regulations worldwide |
| Mayhew, Russell Alex | 2010 | Found on road dead: A macroeconomic study of the efficacy of vehicle scrappage subsidies and sales incentives |
| McGarry, Natalie Anne | 2009 | Intervention and the facilitation of community management of common property resources |
| Meineke, Lewis T. | 2007 | The contagion effect of housing abandonment in Philadelphia |
| Melcher, Cody William | 2014 | Tax income elasticities across U.S. states |
| Mitchell, Ramon | 2009 | The United States and Canada : variations in Hawaiian tourism demand as response to macroeconomic fluctuations |
| Moore, Brian David | 2013 | All news is bad news: The effects of policy uncertainty on manufacturing investment |
| Morar, Daniela | 2009 | Power laws in the stock market |
| Murphy, Niall P. | 2011 | Financial liberalization, regulation, and crises |
| Mumtaz, Jalal Akbar | 2004 | Reconsidering gender in the rural agricultural sector of transitional economies : case of Vietnam |
| Munro, Kirstin M. E. | 2006 | Wage differentials by language group in Quebec |
| Narayanan, Anaka | 2004 | Does civic participation affect school quality? |
| Nguyen, Hai Thi Hong | 2013 | Electricity restructuring in Vietnam: Why? And how? An approach from economic theory and country lessons |
| Nguyen, Kim | 2007 | Ethnic effects on voluntary contributions |
| Nilles, Cameron | 2013 | Local fast food: An econometrics analysis of sales and optimal expansion locations |
| Nikolaeva, Rositsa Ognyanova | 2005 | The effects of third-party environmental certification on share prices : an event study |
| Nutt, Jeffrey | 2010 | The gains of brain drain in India : a study of the value of social exchange in a firm's decision to outsource |
| Odro, Anthony | 2010 | Investigation the determinants of gate revenue for teams in the national basketball association over the last 17 seasons |
| Pant, Suraj | 2012 | The impact of tourism on income inequality: An econometric assessment |
| Payne, Torrey | 2014 | The economics of new technology and wages: Marginal effects of two-point and three-point shooting in the National Basketball Association |
| Pepper, Noah M. | 2009 | When markets value innovation: Patents, citations and the research trajectory |
| Perez, Kristina Marie | 2013 | Cost benefit analysis of the "Portland composts!" program |
| Petkova, Polia | 2009 | The impact of formula apportionment on the state corporate tax revenues in the United States |
| Pittman, Nicholas Mayer | 2013 | The effect of low-income housing developments on nearby home sale prices in Portland, Oregon |
| Poudel, Swaroop | 2010 | Financial systemic risk : classification and measurement |
| Prado, Angel | 2007 | Sarbanes-Oxley and corporate governance: A principal-agent analysis of directors |
| Ragus, Alexander | 2011 | The structure of innovation: A case study in the bicycle industry |
| Rajasingham, Amrita I. | 2009 | A punishment to fit the crime: The use of actuarial science to forecast recidivism |
| Raskin, Reed Jay | 2008 | An empirical study of liability standards as deterrence against dog attacks |
| Rempel, Christopher J. | 2005 | Long-term elder care quality |
| Reback, Mia Rose Costin | 2014 | The distributional effects of a carbon tax in Oregon: Review of the literature and detailed methodology for assessing the incidence |
| Rimal, Mrijan | 2011 | Determinants of transfer market spending of English football clubs |
| Russell, Kristin E. | 2008 | Efficiency and eminent domain: "Kelo" and its implications |
| Rust, Matthew J. | 2008 | Corn, cows, and chickens oh my: An analysis of domestic ethanol subsidies |
| Rutter, Derek | 2010 | Determinants of land conversion decisions in rural China |
| Salam, Najmus Sakib bin | 2009 | Factors behind corruption |
| Samarajiva, Anuradha | 2009 | Inclusion and opportunity in individual development accounts: An analysis of match rates and saving outcomes |
| Sands, Trey | 2011 | On simulating a new Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model: Replicating Smets and Wouters |
| Saunders, Molly | 2008 | Industrial organization of rugby leagues and resulting national team performance |
| Savaiano, Corrine M. | 2011 | An econometric look at state beer taxes' effect on consumption and breweries |
| Savoir, Yves Alexandre | 2005 | A hedonic analysis of transportation accessibility and its effect on housing prices in the Portland metropolitan area |
| Sawick, Patrick | 2005 | Financial intermediation and growth : Wisconsin, 1850-1900 |
| Schmitt, Eric | 2008 | Services trade and goods trade : similarities, differences, and their relationship |
| Shanmugam, Shubba Srimoyee | 2014 | Processions of rectangles within triangles: Geometric proofs for game-theorietical oligopoly models |
| Shapiro, Andrew C. | 2009 | Music industry business models in the digital millenium : an empirical analysis of streaming music and multi-product profits |
| Showell, Nina | 2011 | Computers and U.S. labor productivity : evidence for and implications of skill-based technological change |
| Smith, Alden | 2007 | Economic geography in post-reform China |
| Stephens, Andrei | 2008 | If you pay them, they will come : a model of incentives to invest in postsecondary education resulting from cross-state differences in the minimum wage |
| Stephenson, Phillip D. | 2005 | An empirical analysis of the relationship between telecommunications and economic growth, 1981-2000 |
| Stewart, Justin T. | 2012 | Randomness as fairness |
| Strachan, Erica C. | 2008 | Determinants of microcredit success : a case study of Mercy Corps Northwest |
| Stripling, Ashley Alexis | 2007 | The feminization of debt : microfinance institutions and their impact on the empowerment of women |
| Summers, Matthew Thomas | 2008 | Salmon and water : valuing fisheries benefits from instream flows using the hedonic price method |
| Sutphin, Ben | 2013 | Megaevents as international signals: The effect of the Pan American Games on international trade |
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| Teele, Dawn Langan | 2006 | Child labor and the minimum age to work convention |
| Thu, Htet "Jason" Lin | 2014 | Why are real estate prices in urban China so high? Is there a bubble? |
| Tilov, Dinko | 2004 | The economics of open source software |
| Tran, Quang | 2011 | Implementing reforms in Vietnam telecommunications sector: Lessons from country experience |
| Turcanu, Laura-Alexandra | 2010 | An analysis of international labor migration from Romania |
| Turner, Michael T. | 2008 | Moving ahead, looking behind: Social learning in Mexico-U.S. migration |
| Twieg, Peter | 2006 | Complexity and control : an analysis on synthetic economy design |
| Uhrig-Fox, Bryson Leigh | 2010 | One system does not fit all : a country-level study of variation in tax systems and the number of the headquarters of multinational corporations |
| Varela, Izarra Margarita | 2006 | The true price of payday loans : intertemporal decision making and Portland's poor |
| Verghese, Thomas N. | 2012 | The influence of unexpected changes in sovereign credit ratings on investor behavior |
| Wang, Joan J. | 2014 | Food access, race, and poverty: Associations of neighborhood characteristics and grocery access in Portland, Oregon |
| Warren, Joseph B. | 2013 | Money supply by profit-seeking firms |
| Watson, Andrew Douglas | 2014 | How does progressive redistribution affect income inequality in the United States? |
| Whalen, Eric S. | 2013 | Quality and signaling in the video-game industry |
| Wood, Alexandra | 2007 | Identifying and simulating the conditions associated with a successful transfer of development rights program |
| Woods, Robin Valli | 2006 | Self governance and tribe economic development : a case study of the northern Cheyenne and Crow tribes |
| Yilmaz, Tolga S. | 2008 | From Brownian motion in the stock market to stochastic option pricing models : a theoretical investigation |
| Zhang, Ximeng | 2012 | The effects of piracy in the PC video game industry: network effects, quality signaling and coordination |