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Bridging what he has learned in the classroom and in internships, Henry’s thesis examines how commercialization affects Microfinance Institution (MFI) sustainability and outreach.
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Through the William Comanor '59 Lecture Series in Economics, Dr. Duflo's talk stems from her award winning book 'Poor Economics'.
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Jack’s senior thesis explores the undergraduate university system in Mexico with regards to the returns that graduates earn in the labor market following their graduation.
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Wilson’s thesis will explore the impact the 2008 financial crisis has had on venture capital financing for Internet companies. He will examine the impact the crisis had on three different investment stages of venture capital: seed/early stage, expansion stage, and later stage.
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For his senior thesis, Eli hopes to quantify the relationship between motivation and labor market outcomes. Using a survey of recent Haverford athlete-graduates, as well as fitness testing data collected during their academic careers, he plans to determine whether working hard and being highly motivated athletically lead to better grade point averages and higher paying jobs after graduation.
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As a double major, Matt will be writing a joint thesis in math and economics. He is working on developing a mathematical model of religious conversion that can be used to better understand what causes religious organizations to either flourish or decline over time.
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- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 5:30pm
- Sharpless Auditorium
- Wine/cheese reception in the KINSC Rotunda immediately follows.
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Andrew's thesis, “Credible Credit Raters?”, studies the relationships that exist between credit rating actions and asset returns in the American fixed income market between 2005 and 2011. The study attempts to ascertain whether or not the recent Financial Crisis altered these relationships.
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Across the industrial world, there is a sense amongst protesters that capitalism and democracy have been captured by the few, and policies stem from the moneyed and for the moneyed. The rising wealth of the “one percenters”, the bank bailouts, and the steady loss of manufacturing jobs with good benefits are all presented as prima facie evidence of elite capture, especially in the United States.
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Giff's thesis will look at why females have historically suffered from under-representation in statewide and national political offices in the US. Focusing specifically on state governors, he will address the causes of this gender imbalance.
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Malli Gupta's thesis, The Effect of Ethnic Fragmentation on the Formation of Informal Insurance Networks in Villages in South India, will look at how likely a person is to ask for help – that is, money, rice and kerosene – based on the ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (ELF) of the village.
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Bryan's thesis will examine the role of industry in determining the level of stock underpricing during an Initial Public Offering (IPO), as well as whether technology or financial firms experience larger levels of underpricing.
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Roxanne Jaffe's thesis will explore foreign film revenues around the world. In particular, she hopes to identify the cultural variables that have the most significant impact on foreign film revenue.
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The Department of Economics and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship invite you to our fourth annual economics alumni forum, a panel discussion on Growing Income Inequality. Join us on Thursday, October 20 at 5:00pm in KINSC Sharpless Auditorium.
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Kathleen Bui '11 and Nicholas Reynolds '11: Economics Thesis Prize recipients.
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Daniel's thesis in economics examines the effect of employment opportunities on propensity to commit crime. He is attempting to find out whether unemployment and crime are substitutes or complements, which depends on the interaction between propensity and opportunity to commit crime.
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For her thesis, Kathleen will explore the debate as to whether self-employment is an outcome of weak opportunities in the waged sector or rather emerges from positive prospects on the demand side.
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The goal of Will’s thesis is to explore insider trading in Credit Default Swap markets based on previous research employing updated data, over the period January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2010.
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Patrice's thesis will investigate the existence of a sunk cost effect in the managerial decisions of Major League Baseball (MLB) franchises. Previous research points to an escalation phenomenon in the National Basketball Association.
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Chris' thesis will explore the economic impact that the construction of interstate 81 has had on the coal region of Pennsylvania. The coal region was suffering from the decline of the anthracite coal mining industry as home heating generally switched from anthracite coal to oil and natural gas, post World War II.
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Building on his interest in fishing and the environment, Stephen's thesis will investigate the use of Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) regimes in managing commercial fisheries.
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For her thesis, Ruilin is looking at Mergers and Acquisition activities in China since 2000, examining if the acquirer firms are creating significant values for their acquired firms.
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Daniel’s thesis aims to examine the effects of positive recency on future earnings in industries where performance statistics are measurable. As a case study, Daniel hopes to utilize statistics and salary figures in Major League Baseball to determine the effect of deviations in trend in contract year performance on future salary and future performance for baseball players.
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By looking at aspects of the labor market such as employment protection legislation, union participation, wage bargaining, and temporary help rates, all of which factor into a country's degree of worker protection, in Liz's thesis she will investigate whether the level of worker protection influences labor productivity growth.
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James is interested in the effects of major trends in the evolution of the microfinance industry. The industry is growing rapidly, partly because it has been able to attract private sector funding in addition to donations
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Maddie's thesis investigates the level of competition in micro-finance markets across countries to determine whether interest caps might be justified based on the competitive behavior of the market structure.
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The Department of Economics and the CPGC invite you to our third annual economics alumni forum, a panel discussion of the Economics of Climate Change with alumni Daniel Price '77, Paul Minnice '09 and Marc Stuart. A wine/cheese reception immediately follows in the KINSC Rotunda.
Event Details
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Economics major Mark Rembert '07 was one of five finalists featured on the July 19th broadcast of the 2010 VH1 Do Something Awards Show. The prize recognizes young people 25 and under who are making the world a better place.
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Economics major Rémy Olson '11 is interning with the Grameen Foundation, an offshoot of the Bangladeshi Grameen Bank, founded by the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Muhammed Yunus.
Read the blog>
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Economics major among four bi-co students spending the summer teaching English to children and middle school teachers in China, thanks to a program sponsored by the CPGC.
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Three Economics majors have Center for Peace and Global Citizenship internships this summer.
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William Comanor ‘59 endowed a fund for an annual spring event in which a highly eminent economist gives a public talk, runs a student attended seminar, and is a guest of the department at a banquet in his or her honor. Michael Spence was Haverford's first Comanor lecturer.
Watch the full presentation
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Using a unique data set that tracks student lunch trays from what they choose to what they throw away, Milla's thesis explores whether getting students to CHOOSE healthy food will, in fact, get them to EAT healthy food. So far, she has found that healthy food is thrown away in much higher proportions than unhealthy food.
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A lecture by Nobel Prize winner A. Michael Spence on Tuesday, April 6 @ 5:30 p.m
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As a senior, Jordan has designed a thesis that he hopes will disentangle the factors that fuel white people’s exodus from urban centers, a phenomenon often referred to as “white flight”.
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Sara will join HC alumni Brandon Larson ’08 at Novantas where she will work as an analyst.
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Unraveling the source behind excessive and growing health care costs in the United States is one of the missions of economists currently analyzing health care reform and determining just how the five bills currently facing Congress will affect these costs is especially pressing.
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David’s Senior Thesis will concentration on Corporate Governance; asking the question, “What is a board of director’s ideal composition and activity when monitoring executives?”
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The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship and the Department of Economics are co-sponsoring an alumni event focusing on Economic Perspectives on Health Care Reform.
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Bessey will be working with Philadelphia's Scribe Video Center this summer.
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Andres Celin '11 will be studying in Madrid this fall with the help of an an IES Cross Cultural and Comparative Studies Scholarship.
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The economics major will enter Penn's Wharton School in the fall to pursue a Ph.D. in applied economics.
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David Wessel '75 and Timothy Taylor '82 were part of an October 22 panel discussion.
Includes video.
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The assistant professor is a choice theorist who studies observational learning.
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Join us on Thursday, February 28 at 6:00pm in Chase Auditorium for a panel discussion on the role of corporations in addressing social issues traditionally associated with governments and nonprofits.
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Josh’s thesis project has been to develop a model (based on previous literature with some assumptions dropped) to identify the main forces behind wage inequality between individuals with the same level of education.
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Steven Braun, Director of Macroeconomic Forecasting, Council of Economic Advisers, came to campus on Wednesday, December 1. He gave a talk on Current Issues in the Macroeconomic Outlook: Stimulus, GDP Gap, and Recovery.
Watch the full presentation online (video) >
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Sarah’s thesis is an analysis of the impact of economic growth and structural change on the age of marriage for women in East, South, and Southeast Asia.
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David Owens’ Behavioral Economics course helped him in formulating his thesis, Line Movement Analysis in the NBA, in which he analyzes the movement of gambling lines (better known as point-spreads) for the past eight years of NBA games.
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The former economics major advises India's United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government not to misuse governors for partisan purposes.
Do Not Meddle in the States
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HC ’09 Economics Major Jeremy Golan has been blogging from Cambodia where he's working for the Peace Corps.
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The president and CEO of Pax World Management Corp. was on campus October 2 for a panel discussion.
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Alec’s thesis investigates the impact of different measures of healthcare availability on educational outcomes for children ages 6-18 in Kenya.
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Anuj’s thesis undertakes measuring the impact of movements in the Indian exchange rate on Indian exports and imports. The motivation behind his thesis is the lack of research in this field.
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For his thesis, John is comparing bank profitability between a Euro member country, Slovakia, and a non-Euro member country, Poland, throughout the European sovereign debt crisis.
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Linus's thesis will examine the effect of access to microfinance lending on small firms' decision to operate in the formal or informal sector of a developing country's economy.
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Tim Ogden, Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative and Featured blogger at Stanford Social Innovation Review. Weds. Oct 10, 5:30pm
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In his thesis Andrew will be estimating the impact of 9/11 on Arab-American labor market outcomes utilizing a difference-in-differences methodology.
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Visiting Professor of Economics Biswajit Banerjee and 17 students from his class, Economics of Transition and Euro Adoption in Central and Eastern Europe, traveled to Europe for fall break. Jacob Lowy '14 chronicled the experience in his blog.
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Monday, October 17, 2011, 4:30pm, Gest 101: Talk by renowned author, speaker, and counselor Charles Eisenstein. Organized by Joshua Ramey, Indradeep Ghosh, and Ashok Gangadean.
Sponsored by the Gest Program in Global Philosophy and the Hurford Humanities Center.
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The discussion centered around The Economics of Climate Change. Panelists Marc Stuart, co-founder of EcoSecurities and private equity investor in carbon and clean energy Markets, and Dan Price '77, senior partner at Sidley Austin LLP.
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Ryan's thesis, in collaboration with Haverford Professor Dave Owens and UC Santa Barbara Professor Grossman, is analyzing and quantifying individuals' "desire for control." This research derives from an intuition suggesting that (all other things being equal) people generally prefer to control a situation rather than "give up control" to someone else.
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Given his passion for both the theoretical and mathematical aspects of economics, Eric plans on eventually getting a PhD in economics.
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Being a native of Kikuyu, Kenya (outside of Nairobi) Economics senior Michelle Gatonye has often been asked How did you end up at Haverford College?, a question I felt obliged to ask.
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This past summer Doug worked with Professor Richard Ball on a project using game theory to study how the Electoral College system of electing U.S. presidents affects the incentives candidates face when they decide how to allocate their campaign resources among states.
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Wall Street Journal reporter David Wessel ’75 (left) has just published “In Fed We Trust”, an inside look at the Federal Reserve and “the great panic”. He and Tim Taylor ’82, managing editor of The Journal of Economic Perspectives, did a web chat about the book, the Fed, the causes of the crisis and the outlook.
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Bard will explore the gender compensation gap that exists in the financial sector. Curiously the technology sector approaches compensation much more equally than the financial industry and he aims to explore this discrepancy.
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A summer internship sponsored by the Hurford Humanities Center gave aspiring director Matthew Bessey '10 the chance to learn about documentary film production at Philadelphia's Scribe Video Center.
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In addition to her economics major, she is a political science minor at Bryn Mawr.
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His Senior Thesis concentrates on wage differentials and the crowding hypothesis in Slovenia.
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Wednesday March 25 - Academic Tea for Economics Majors
The Academic Tea will be at 3pm in Stokes 119
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Thomas Kinrade is the Economics Department’s latest “Spotlighted Student.” His senior thesis topic analyzes the ability of developing countries to use their natural resources in a sustainable way over time.
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Monique Wong, our new “Spotlighted Student”, comes to Haverford from Hong Kong, China.
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Their feasibility study of a region of Nigeria took first place for the Haverford team in a nationwide consulting completion sponsored by emerging microfinance institution Videre.
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Anne Koellhoffer is this month’s “Spotlighted Student” in the Economics Department. Anne, a senior at Haverford, comes from Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, which is an hour and a half north of here along the Delaware River.
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Jamey has been selected as this month’s “Spotlighted Student” in the Economics Department. Jamey comes to Haverford from Great Falls, VA.
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A native of Doylestown, PA, Chris attended Central Bucks East High School. He is a senior on the baseball team, playing outfield for the Black Squirrels.
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Professor of Economics Vladimir Kontorovich's recent paper documents the near-absence of the military sector from the published output of Sovietology (Western academic study of the Soviet economy).
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Professor of Economics Anne Preston presents her research on why men and women leave scientific careers at a Columbia University Business School symposium.
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The economics department has hired David Owens as a new tenure track faculty member starting in the fall of 2008.
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"What Can Social Preferences Tell Us About Charitable Giving? Evidence on Responses to Price of Giving, Matching, and Rebates," will be presented at the 4th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Economics.
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Guest lecturer and Nobel Prize winner Eric Maskin explains how one voting method gives the truest reflection of voters’ preferences. Links to video included.
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Thirty-seven students +20 alums = 3-minute "speed mentoring"
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In October, Anirudh Suri ’06, a double major in economics and political science, received a rare opportunity for undergraduate students: He joined a panel of distinguished scholars—a professor emeritus from McGill University, a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Ohio, and the head of the political science department at the University of Baroda, India—in presenting papers at the 34th Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Indradeep Ghosh, Casey Londergan, Ana Lopez-Sanchez, Peter Love, Bret Mulligan, and Jennifer Pals join Haverford's faculty.
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Anirudh Suri '06 won a Carnegie Endowment Junior Fellowship this year, and will be going to Washington, D.C., to work with Ashley Tellis, a Senior Assistant in the Carnegie Institute South Asia program.
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Linda Bell has been featured in the national media
Painting the glass ceiling with a little green
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We asked faculty from the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities at Haverford to give us their thoughts about the upcoming year by responding to the following question: "What do you think will be the most significant development or trend in your field of study in 2004 and why?"
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During the 32nd Conference on South Asia, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Oct. 24-26, several distinguished scholars from all over the world offered their opinions on the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan. And Haverford’s own Anirudh Suri ’06 was among them.
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A day-long visit to the D.C. headquarters of the IMF gave students from Haverford's economics department a new perspective on the global economy. The trip was co-organized by visiting professor Biswajit Banerjee, who worked at the IMF for 26 years.
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Is Uncle Sam now in the insurance business? The Wall Street Journal editor appeared on NPR Wednesday to discuss the government's bailout of insurance giant AIG.
Listen to the full story >
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This Six Session Seminar will equip you with:
• The Basics of Capital Markets
• How to Assess a Firm’s Finances
• Understanding Investment Policies
• Assessing Social Impact
• Portfolio Theory
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Jane Dokko ’98 and Tim Taylor ’82 spoke at the 2011 Economics Alumni Forum, which was moderated by Rebecca Saxton-Fox '06.
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Shannon Mudd, the College’s new visiting assistant professor of economics and microfinance program coordinator, will oversee new courses, a visitor series and a symposium on the topic.
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Krugman, who managed to inject a surprising amount of humor into a largely bleak analysis of the economic downturn, began with this observation: “Over the past three years we have faced the economic challenge of a lifetime, and we have failed completely.”
See the talk here.
