Honours Students & Supervisors
Honours Students and Supervisors
2010 - 2011
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Berthelot, Kelly | "The Effects of Social Incentives on Common-Pool Resource Decisions" | Emma Hutchinson |
| Bicknell, Hillary | "Gender Differentiated Occupational Choice in Child Labour" | Alok Kumar |
| Edwards, Steven | "Effects of the Bayh Dole Act on Private Research Investment" | Linda Welling |
| Gaw, Tim | "The Employment Effects of the Harmonized Sales Tax: Evidence from the Reform in Atlantic Canada" | Elisabeth Gugl |
| Kan, Laurie | "Welfare Cheques, Substance Use, and Health: Evidence from Victoria Emergency Departments" | Chris Auld |
| Levy, Robert | "Gold's role in the Determination of Currencies" | Merwan Engineer |
| Mollard, Andrew | "Bank of Canada Interest Rate Announcements and the Announcement Effect on the Exchange Rate" | Graham Voss |
| Robertson, Alyssa | "Name Brand Donation: Determining the Attributes that Cause an Individual to Donate to Non-Profit Organizations" | Emma Hutchinson |
| Sim, John | "An Economic Analysis of the Canada Research Chair Program" | Pascal Courty |
| Shantz, Jessica | "Designing an Effective Border Adjustment within the WTO Legal Framework" | Emma Hutchinson |
2009 - 2010
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Chen, Scott | “Harris Todaro Model in China with Endogenous Migration Policy” | Merwan Engineer |
| Hsai, Sandra | “Bank Runs and Interest Rates” | Merwan Engineer |
| Lee, Samuel | “Simulating the Impact on Family Welfare of a Tax Regime Shift: Individual Taxation to Income Splitting” | Elisabeth Gugl |
| Najjar, Nouri | "Optimal Pollution Abatement Policy: Consequences for Urban Labour Demand" | Peter Kennedy |
| Shirazi-Kia, Shiva | “Do Expectations Matter? An Experimental Analysis of Trust and Reciprocity” | Daniel Rondeau |
| Termes, Taylor | "Bundling and Standardization: The Blu-ray/HD-DVD Case" | Carl Mosk/Judith Clarke |
| Usher, Andrew | “Hide and Seek: Search Costs as a Screen in Angel Capital” | Merwan Engineer/Paul Schure |
| Vodden, Mark | “The Distributional Consequences of Carbon Pricing in Canada” | Emma Hutchinson |
2008 - 2009
| Student Name | Thesis Title | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Aggor, Edinam | "Exchange rate Determination in Ghana" | Alok Kumar |
| Argatoff, Sandra | "Beauty Premiums and Discrimination in the Labour Market" | Daniel Rondeau |
| Behan, Gordon | "Salary Determination in the Post-lockout NHL: A Quantile Regression Approach" | Ken Stewart |
| Child, Travers | "Deconstructive Reconstruction" | David Scoones |
| Craig, Andrea | "How the Carbon Tax is Making Consumers Drive Further: The Effect of the Gasoline Price Differential on Cross-Boarder shopping By Canadians" | Martin Farnham |
| Gillis, Mark | "Running to Deposit Insurance: Regulatory Competition Via Deposit Insurance" | Merwan Engineer |
| Hu, Ran | "Pricing and Hedging in CME Futures Housing Market: A Survey of How we Price Futures and a Test in the San Diego Housing Market" | Merwan Engineer |
| Janes, Michael | "Uncertainty and Punishment: A Public Goods Experiment" | Daniel Rondeau |
| Karp, David | "Choice and the placebo effect of prices" | Daniel Rondeau |
| Makienko, Roman | "Conservative Banks vs. Aggressive Venture Capitalists" | Paul Schure |
| Schwartz, Jacob | "Anglo-Dutch Auctions: Fostering Entry in License Auctions With Incumbency" | Daniel Rondeau |
| Sheeley, Mark | "Is Certifying Worth the Effort?" | Paul Schure |
| Zhang, Hanyue | "An Introduction to Copula Functions and their Application in Studying the Dependence of the international Equity Markets" | David Giles |
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