Economics
Economics at F&M
Economics Department Initiative
Researching Labor Market Conditions in Southeastern Pennsylvania
L-R - Shubham Jha '26, Nga (Nina) Vu '23, Apurva Subedi '24
Inequality, Poverty, Power, and Social Justice
The Initiative provides an intellectual and communal framework that promotes critical multidisciplinary research, dialogue, and action on the causes and consequences of diverse forms of inequality and injustice as they are manifested in Lancaster and other cities and regions worldwide. The initiative emphasizes a collaborative relationship with Lancaster communities to explore how dynamics of power generate and reinforce economic and social exclusion, poverty and inequality. Activities are organized through the curriculum, student-faculty research, and a public forum.
- Professor Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Co-Director
- Professor Danish Khan, Co-Director
Courses Offered
Inequality, Power, and Justice (Zein-Elabdin)
Political Economy of Inequality (Khan)
Political Economy of Urban Deverlopment (Khan)
Race and Equality (Roncolato)
Public Policy, Poverty, and Human Capability (Fleming)
Current Research Project
- Labor Market Conditions in South-Eastern Pennsylvania - This research project, carried out in collaboration with Lancaster's Spanish American Civic Association (SACA), investigates labor market conditions for marginalized, poor and working-poor communities in Lancaster and neighboring counties by collecting data on income flows, traditional and new employment patterns, barriers to full paid-employment opportunities, and other relevant factors, disaggregated by race/ethnicity, gender, national origin, disability status, and other demographic characteristics. The project aims to identify gaps in existing data and to offer a critical analysis of the data and current understanding and representation of labor market conditions.
Affiliated Students
- Sarwesh Acharya ’26
- Lucas Cuervo ’24, Economics
- Theza Friedman '24, Economics, Anthropology, International Studies
- Shubham Jha ’26
- Ritesh K.C. ’26
- Linh Ha Nguyen ’25, Economics
- Nancy Nguyen ’26
- Alfee Rubayet ’24, Economics, Government
- Apurva Subedi ’24, Economics, Mathematics, Music Performance
Learn more about IPPSOJ, including forum events and research projects
Click on the following links for video and podcasts:
Podcast on IPPSOJ's Lancaster Moral Budget https://anchor.fm/csewl/episodes/Episode-7-A-Lancaster-Moral-Budget-e10kehd/a-a5hjeau
Interview with Antonio Callari, Linda Aleci, and Tammy Rojas.
Lancaster Social Justice Indexing Project
Nithya Ramaswamy '22 and Jill Ireland '21
https://sites.google.com/fandm.edu/2020autumnresearchfair/social-sciences
2020 Van Dyck Lecture, "Stratification Economics: Understanding Identity and Inequality" A conversation with William Darity, Jr.,
Resources
- Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster (CSEwL)
- City of Lancaster Open Data
- The Spanish American American Civic Association (SACA)
- Church World Service
- The Economic Policy Institute
- The Economic Hardship Project
- The Poor People’s Campaign
- The National Economic Association
- The International Association for Feminist Economics
- The Economics Observatory
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
- Linda Aleci, Department of Art and Art History, Professor
- Antonio Callari, Department of Economics, Professor Emeritus, IPPSOJ Community Liaison
- Patrick Fleming, Department of Economics, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
- Zeshan Ismat, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, International Studies
- Danish Khan, Department of Economics, Assistant Professor, IPPSOJ Co-Director
- Tami Lantz, Department of Economics, Office Coordinator
- Tony Maynard, Department of Economics, Senior Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Leanne Roncolato, Department of Economics, Associate Professor
- Adeem Suhail, Department of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Troy Walters, Economic Research Associate, Philadelphia
- Nicole Jones-Young, Department of Business, Organizations, and Society, Associate Professor
- Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Department of Economics, Professor, IPPSOJ Co-Director
View IPPSOJ Archive
Resources
Overview of Economics at F&M
We offer truly impressive opportunities to work closely with faculty members in highly specialized courses and one-to-one tutorials.
Seniors who have exhibited outstanding scholarship gain access to independent research and study opportunities that can lead to departmental honors and publication in leading journals.
Our program is supported by an active, student-run Economics Club.
An economics major is valuable to any number of different professional disciplines in which critical thinking, analysis, and writing are emphasized.
While most graduates of the program enter the business world, many go on to graduate programs in medicine, law, or economics at such institutions as Oxford, Columbia, NERA, Harvard University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, Michigan State University, and the University of Virginia. Click this link for more information on study abroad.
Curriculum & Courses
Learning Goals & Outcomes
Economics Department Mission Statement
"We strive to teach students the foundations of economic analysis within a liberal arts culture that celebrates the value of open and critical inquiry, promotes intellectual empathy, rewards analytical rigor, and develops a sense of both local and global citizenship. We seek to fulfill this mission by exposing our students to the broad spectrum of economic thought that animates our discipline, by encouraging the thoughtful application of theory to current issues and economic problems entrenched in the institutions structures of contemporary society, and by fostering an environment that values scholarly research, intellectual curiosity, and respectful engagement with alternative points of view."
Tutoring
The Economics Department will offer tutoring for the following classes:
For Fall 2023 - please see the schedule below for scheduled tutoring sessions. If you need additional help in any of the classes listed, feel free to drop in during
the times below.
ECO 100 - begins Tuesday, September 26 from 5:30 - 8:30 pm in STAGER 318. The time and room has been changed beginning September 26.
Every session will run throughout the fall semester (Tutoring will NOT be held over
Fall or Thanksgiving break)
The tutor for this session will be Tracy Wang.
ECO 200 - begins Tuesday, September 19 from 8:00 - 10:00 pm, in STAGER 319.
Every session will run throughout the fall semester (Tutoring will NOT be held over
spring or Thanksgiving break)
The tutor for this session will be Tom Carney.
ECO 103/ECO 203 - begins Thursday, September 7 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm in STAGER 316.
Every session will run throughout the fall semester (Tutoring will NOT be held over
Thanksgiving break)
The tutor for this session will be Lucas Cuervo.
ECO 210 - begins Thursday, September 7 from 8:00 - 10:00 pm, in STAGER 319.
Every session will run throughout the fall semester (Tutoring will NOT be held over
Thanksgiving break)
The tutor for this session will be An Le.
To make an individual tutoring appointment for any of the above courses that tutoring is offered, you can go through My Diplomat >Academics Menus>Q&SC Tutoring icon.
Faculty in Print
Brennan, D.M., 2022. “Beyond Profit-Led versus Investment-Led Capitalism: Marx and Kalecki on ‘Capitalists’ Consumption’ and ‘Workers’ Savings’.” Rethinking Marxism, 34 no. 3: 294-316.
Fleming, P.M., Palm-Forster, L.H., and Kelley, L.E., 2021. The effect of legacy pollution information on landowner investments in water quality: Lessons from economic experiments in the field and lab. Environmental Research Letters, 16 (4), 045006.
Savchenko, O.M., Fleming, P.M., and Zambito, K., 2021. The future of Four Creeks Farm: Scale-up, diversify, or exit? Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 3(2), 26-38.
Khan, Danish., 2023 "Turning farmland into real estates: Expulsionary development and the appropriation of space in Pakistan. Marxist sociology blog
Khan, Danish. 2022. Transforming a Praetorian Polity: Political Economy of Democratization in Pakistan. Canadian Journal of Development Studies with (with Aasim Sajjad Akhtar).
Khan, Danish. 2021. Political Economy of Uneven State-Spatiality: Conflict, Class and Institutions in Postcolonial State of Pakistan. Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture & Society 33(1): 52-70.
Khan, Danish. 2020. Rethinking Informal Labor in Peripheral Capitalism: Surplus, Market, and Spatiality. Labor History 61(3-4): 320-334 (with Shahram Azhar)
Nersisyan, Yeva, 2023. "Lowering inflation isn't a job for a one-trick pony." The Hill
Hansen, Mary Eschelbach, Michael E. Martell, and Leanne Roncolato. "Tolerance and the labor supply of cohabiting gays and lesbians." Journal of Demographic Economics (2021): 1-28.
Cardella, Eric and Alex Roomets. "Pay Distribution and Productivity Effects: An Experiment." Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2021)
Silverman, Mark S. "Conceptions of the Natural and the Social in Walras's Economic Thought." Review of Political Economy (2021): 1-14.
Student Awards
Congratulations to our 2023 award winners!
Theodore M. Wood Prize - Jacob E. Antolini '23
Minnie Zeid Memorial Prize - Ziqi (Grace) Hua '23, Cathlene (Catie) Kaseta '23, Isaac Rockower '23, Nga (Nina)
Q. Vu '23
Jacob Miller Prize - Apurva Subedi '24
Majors and minors may receive one or more of the following awards and honors each year.
The Theodore M. Wood Prize for the best essay in economics, written for any economics course.
The Minnie Zeid Memorial Prize awarded to the graduating male and female economics majors who have achieved the highest cumulative grade average in economics.
The Jacob J. Miller Prize, awarded to a member of the junior class who has shown distinction in the fields of economics or business. This prize is awarded in alternate turns with the Business Department.
Omicron Delta Epsilon The International Honor Society In Economics aims to recognize outstanding achievement in economics and to establish closer ties between economics students and faculty. Active chapters of ODE sponsor panels at professional meetings, invited speakers, group discussions and field trips. Information on admission requirements is available from the Economics Department office.
Annual Lecture Series
Van Dyck Lecturers
The Wayne K. Van Dyck Fund was established in 1972 by a gift from Wayne K. Van Dyck, Class of 1965. This gift was made to be used to bring speakers to the College on topics of interest in the field of Economics.
Dates, Topics and Speakers
2022
"The Resilience of Patriarchal Systems "
Nancy Folbre is Professor Emerita of Economics and Director of the Program on Gender
and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst and a Senior Fellow of the Levy Economics Institute at Bard
College in the United States. Her research explores the interface between political
economy
and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work. In
addition
to numerous articles published in academic journals, she is the author of The Rise and Decline
of Patriarchal Systems (Verso, 2021), the editor of For Love and Money: Care Work in the U.S.
(Russell Sage, 2012), and the author of Greed, Lust, and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas
(Oxford, 2009), Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family (Harvard, 2008), and The
Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New Press, 2001). She has also written widely for
a popular audience, including contributions to the New York Times Economix blog, The
Nation, and the American Prospect. You can learn more about her at her website and
blog, Care
Talk: http://blogs.umass.edu/folbre/
2021
A lecture by Dr. Nina Banks
"Sadie Alexander: Race, Economic Uncertainty, and the Rights of Citizenship".
Nina Banks is President of the National Economic Association (NEA) and Associate Professor of
Economics at Bucknell University. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Economic
Policy Institute (EPI) and Editorial Board of The Review of Black Political Economy. Previously she served on the board of the International Association for Feminist
Economics (IAFFE). Her research makes visible the hidden work of Black and other marginalized
women by developing an economics of their community activism against racial and ethnic
disparities. Her determination to restore Black women to U.S. history led to the recovery
of the economic thought of the first Black American economist, Sadie T.M. Alexander.
2020
Stratification Economics
Understanding Identity and Inequality
A Conversation with Professor William Darity, Jr.
William Darity, Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American
Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social
Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and
African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on
Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race,
class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement
gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes,
the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution,
the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.
His most recent book, coauthored with A. Kirsten Mullen, is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (2020).
Learn more about the lecture.
2019
The Urgent Need to Reverse Rising Inequality
William Spriggs is a professor in, and former Chair of, the Department of Economics at Howard University
and serves as Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO. In his role with the AFL-CIO he chairs
the Economic Policy Working Group for the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development, and serves on the board of the National
Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently on the Advisory Board to the Minneapolis
Federal Reserve Bank Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute, and on the editorial
boards for Public Administration Review and the Journal of the Center for Policy Analysis
and Research (of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation). Dr. Spriggs holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2018
Democracy and Capitalism: Allies or Adversaries?
Robert Kuttner is a Visiting Professor in Social Planning and Administration at Brandeis University; areas
of expertise/interest: Inequality, Politics of the Welfare State, International Political
Economy and Globalization, Politics and History of Managed Capitalism; cofounder and
coeditor of the American Prospect magazine; Author of Can Democracy Survive Capitalism? (Norton & Company, 2018). He is educated at Oberlin, LSE, and Berkeley.
2017
Power Trumps both Trade and Technology: How to Undo the Damage we have Done.
Anne Mayhew is Professor Emerita of Economics, Former Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and
Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Tennessee, and leading figure in contemporary
institutional economic thought. She has taught U.S. economic history of economic thought
with special focus on the impact of technological change on business and financial
organizations.
2016
Child’s Play? The Economics of Preschool Education in America 2016
Elizabeth U. Cascio ‘97 is an Associate Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is an applied economist with research
interests at the intersection of education, public policy, and the young child. Her
current projects concern the design of preschool education policy and the relationship
between broader social policy and child well-being.
2015
Left Out?
LGBT Poverty in the US and what to do about it
M.V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar
at UCLA's Williams Institute. Her current research is on the relationship of LGBT
inclusion to economic development and poverty in the LGBT community.
2013
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
Richard D. Wolff is a visiting professor in the graduate program in International Affairs of the New
School University in New York. He is the author of "Occupy the Economy: Challenging
Capitalism" with David Barsamian, "Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian
and Marxian" with Stephen Resnick, and "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism."
2012
Economics and the Federal Reserve: After the Financial Crisis
Presented by Dr. Jeffrey Lacker '77, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Dr. Lacker '77 is the author of numerous
articles in professional journals on monetary, financial, and payment economics, and
has presented his work at several universities and central banks.
2011
The Great Stagnation
Presented by Tyler Cowen, the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. Cowen
is the author of several books, including "In Praise of Commercial Culture", "The
Age of the Infovore", and most recently "The Great Stagnation." He is a frequent
contributor to the New York Times and numerous other media outlets. His blog www.marginalrevolution.com,
was recently ranked by the Wall Street Journal as the number one economics blog in
the world.
2009
The Crisis in State & Local Finances as a Failure in Federalism & the Rule of the
Law
Presented by Timothy Canova, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International
Economic Law, at Chapman University School of Law.
2008
The Financial Crisis & Fraud: How "Winner Take All" Contests Produce "Loser-Take-All"
Results
Presented by William Black, an American lawyer, academic, author, and former bank regulator.
2008
The Economic Crisis: How bad will it get? How long will it last? What is to come?
Presented by Richard Wolff, an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst
2006
The Economics of Time
Presented by Daniel Hamermesh, Centennial Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin.
2005
The Social Security Crisis: A Divergence from Real Issues.
Presented by Dean Baker, Co-Director, Center for Economics & Policy Research, Washington, DC.
2004
Does Rising Income Inequality Harm the Middle-Class?
Presented by Robert Frank, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Cornell
University, New York.
Will Lyons Lecturers
The Will Lyons lecture series honors the late Will Lyons - a longtime professor and founding member of the Department of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College.
Dates, Topics and Speakers
2023
Liberalism, Crisis and Progress: Economics in an Uncertain World
Zachary Carter is an advisor to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's Economy and Society Initiative,
and a journalist with extensive experience covering the financial crisis of 2008,
Congress and the Federal Reserve.
2022
Money is the Only Thing: Toward a Social Production Economy
Riccardo Bellofiore is a (retired) Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy),
where he taught Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, International Monetary Economics,
and History of Economic Thought. His research interests include Marxian theory of
value and crisis, the dynamics of the capitalist contemporary economy, the macro-monetary
and financial approaches, and the philosophy of economics.
Zoom link for lecture: https://fandm.zoom.us/j/97465796676
Passcode: 1787
2021
Was Keynes a Liberal or a Socialist?
Matias Vernengo is a Professor of Economics at Bucknell University and a co-editor of the journal Review of Keynesian Economics, and co-editor in Chief of the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Prof. Vernengo is an author of four books and his forthcoming co-authored book is
titled Recessions, Depressions and Stagnation: An Introduction to Structuralist- Keynesian
Macroeconomics. He has also edited six books and has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles.
Previously, he has taught at University of Utah, Kalamazoo College and Universidade
Federal do Rio de Janeiro. He has also worked at the Central Bank of Argentina and
Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis in New York.
2019
When Things Don't Fall Apart: Global Financial Governance in the Age of Productive
Incoherence Ilene Grabel is Professor of International Finance and Co-director of the graduate program in
Global Finance, Trade, and Economic Integration at the Josef Korbel School of International
Studies at the University of Denver. She serves as a standing member of the Intergovernmental
Expert Group on Financing for Development at the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD). She has worked as a consultant to the International Poverty
Centre for Inclusive Growth of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), UNCTAD/G-24, UN
University/World Institute for Development Economics Research, and UNDP’s Human Development
Report Office. She has published widely on financial policy and crises, developmental
financial architectures, international financial institutions, and global financial
governance. Her 2004 book Reclaiming Development (Zed Books, with Ha-Joon Chang),
has been translated into seven languages. Her latest book, When Things Don’t Fall
Apart: Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive
Incoherence (MIT Press, 2018) has been awarded the 2018 British International Studies
Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize.
2017
The Global Economics of Inequality.
James K. Galbraith, holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon
B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and a professorship in Government at the University
of Texas at Austin. He chaired the board of Economists for Peace and Security from
1996 to 2016 (epsusa.org) and directs the University of Texas Inequality Project (http://utip.lbj.utexas.edu).
He was Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the United States Congress
in the early 1980s. From 1993 to 1997, he served as chief technical adviser to China's
State Planning Commission for macroeconomic reform, and in the first half of 2015
he served as an informal counselor to Yanis Varoufakis, the Greek Minister of Finance.
In 2016 he advised the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders.
2016
Inequality and Joblessness by Design: How to Choose a Different Future.
Pavlina Tcherneva, is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Economics at Bard College. She
specializes in the fields of fiscal policy, monetary theory, and macroeconomic stabilization.
Her current research examines the impact of direct job creation on the unemployed,
and in particular on women and youth.
Listen to the lecture
2015
Modern Money Theory and Euroland: What is Wrong with the Euro?
L. Randall Wray, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Senior Scholar
at the Levy Institute of Bard College, NY. He is the authro of Modern Money Theory, Understanding Modern Money, and Money and Credit in Capitalist
Economies.
Listen to the lecture.
2014
Bush-Obama & the Bankers: U.S. Economic Policy Since the Crash.
Robert Prasch, Professor of Economics at Middlebury College is the author of over 120 academic articles,
book chapters and book reviews along with numerous editorials and interviews in newspapers,
radio, and on-line media including The Huffington Post, New Economic Perspectives, Translation Exercises, Salon and Commondreams.
2013
There's No Such Thing As A Free Crunch: Why We Are All Keynesians In A Crisis.
Presented by Mark Blyth, Professor of International Political Economy and Faculty Fellow of the Watson Institute
for International Studies at Brown University.
2012
Understanding Modern Money: Can the U. S. Government Go Broke?
Presented by L. Randall Wray, Ph.D, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri - Kansas City as well as a
Research Director at the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and Senior
Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, NY.
2011
A Personal Journey Through the Dark Ages of Macroeconomics.
Presented by Peter Matthews, who started his career at Franklin & Marshall College and is currently the James Jermain
Professor of Political Economy at Middlebury College.
2010
Fiscal Responsibility: What exactly does it mean?
Presented by Jan A. Kregel, Ph.D., Rapporteur, United Nations General Assembly's Expert Commission on Reform of the International
Financial System. Former Chief, Financing for Development, United Nations Department
of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), New York.
Special Note - The Will Lyons Inaugural lecture by Jan Kregel has been released as a Working Paper from the Levy Institute. The link to the Working Paper is as follows:
Independent Study and Departmental Honors
Senior majors who exhibit a high level of scholarship may apply to do independent research under faculty direction. Departmental honors may be awarded for superior work. Students who are interested in graduating with honors must approach a faculty member or the Department Chair to apply as early as possible.
Eligibility
Granting of Departmental Honors
Requirements
The student is expected to work independently and to meet with the advisor on at least a bi-weekly basis. The advisor may require written work for each meeting. If at any time the advisor believes that the student’s research effort is insufficient for an honors project, s/he may recommend cessation of honors and dissolve the honors committee.
In particular cases it is advisable that the student completes ECO390 Directed Reading in their junior year or the fall of their senior year as preparation for the honors program.
Deadlines
Early to mid February: Topic is finalized and honors committee formed.
The student has delineated an area of study and established a research question. The Honors Committee is constituted by the Advisor in consultation with the student. It will be made up of two Economics professors and one or more professors from another department. The Advisor is not a member of the Committee.
Third week of March: Draft submitted to advisor.
Early April: Draft submitted to honors committee.
After reading the draft, Members of the Honors Committee make a recommendation to the Advisor as to whether or not the thesis is worthy of Honors.
Third week of April: Final draft submitted to honors committee.
The Committee members have between one and two weeks to review the thesis.
Oral Defense and Copy of Thesis
During the oral defense the student will present their work to the committee and respond to questions from committee members. The advisor has no role in defending the thesis. The oral defense may, but is not expected to last beyond one hour in total.
Immediately following the oral defense, the honors committee recommends to the Department of Economics that the candidate receive honors (without revision), honors (with revision), or no honors. The advisor informs the candidate of the committee’s recommendation. If revisions are required, the student will resubmit the thesis to the advisor within one week.
The student must file one paper copy and one electronic copy (CD) of the final thesis as well as a signed release form with the College Archives in Shadek Fackenthal Library. Instructions and a downloadable release form are available at http://library.fandm.edu/archives/thesisinstructions.html
The student should also submit a paper copy of the thesis to the Department of Economics office.
Projects Awarded Honors
2023. "Future Eaters of America: Analyzing Participation, Barriers, and the Future Directiion
of USDA Farm-to-School Programs." Kelsi Baird (Faculty Advisor: Patrick Fleming)
2020. "The U.S.-China Trade War and Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam: Is Donald Trump
Making Vietnam Great Again?" Khanh Tran (Faculty Advisor: Tony Maynard)
2020. "The Effect of Decision Timing to Avoid the Environmental Risk in Threshold Public Goods Games in Inequality: An Experimental Study." Isaac (Zhengyi) Yu (Faculty Advisor: Alex Roomets)
2017. " Sprawl, Mobility Gaps, and the Transit Solution," Layla Thomas (Faculty Advisor: Tony Maynard)
2017. " Was Monetary Policy the Most Effective Tool to Tackle the Great Recession? A Look at Fiscal Policy as an Alternative Solution," Lien Phuong Pham (Faculty Advisor: Yeva Nersisyan)
2017. "Federal Subsidization of Health Insurance: The "Cadillac Tax" and Tax Credits in the Affordable Care Act and Beyond," David Goodman (Faculty Advisor: Sean Flaherty)
2016. " Human Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Questioning Erased Dimensions in the Human Development Paradigm through Household-level Interviews in the Western Brazilian Amazon," Felipe Storch de Oliveira (Faculty Advisor: Eiman Zein-Elabdin)
2015. "Measuring Child Poverty Using Rothbarth Scales: Estimates for an East Coast Province in China," Yibin Liu (Faculty Advisor: Sean Flaherty)
2015. "Analyzing the Effects of Residential Segregation on Socioeconomic Outcomes Among Minorities," Ameesh Upadhyay (Faculty Advisor: Sean Flaherty)
2014. "Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited: FDI and Environmental Regulation," Raghav Paul (Faculty Advisor: Evelyn Wright)
2013. "Revisiting the European Crisis: Whose Crisis and Who Should Pay," Niriksha Shetty (Faculty Advisor: Yeva Nersisyan)
2013. "The Effect of Increased Minority Presence in Metropolitan Areas on Earnings and Unemployment Inequality," Deepa Yusuf (Faculty Advisor: Sean Flaherty)
2011. "An Economic Analysis and Comparison of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery," Jonathan Bock (Faculty Advisor: Sean Flaherty)
2011. "An Empirical Analysis of Factor Endowments and Comparative Advantage," Jay Merchant (Faculty Advisor: Roger White)
2007. "Financial Account Openness Following the 1997 Asian Crisis," Emanuela Verenca (Faculty Advisor: Roger White)
2006. "Economic Motion: An Application of the Lotka-Volterra Equations," Viktor Vadasz (Faculty Advisor: Roger White)
2006. "Rapid Credit Growth Rates in Transitional Economies with an Emphasis on Bulgaria," Vania Stavrakeva (Faculty Advisor: Roger White)
2006. "Stock Market Reaction to Acquisition Announcements: An Empirical Analysis of Current Trading Strategies using an Event Study Approach," Isfandiyar Shaheen (Faculty Advisor: Roger White)
"Beijing Discretion: A Critique of the Washington Consensus”
"The Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate: Fundamentals, Market Sentiment, or Tossing a Coin?”