Summer Research
2023
Monetary Shock Asymmetry and Spatial Heterogeneity Along the Household Balance Sheet Channel by Thomas Decker (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Power to the Zealots: How Enthusiastic Stock Fans Keep Prices from Fundamental Valuations by David Jackson (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Synthetic Control Method and LASSO Under Staggered Adoption with Dynamic Treatment Effect by Yi Niu (Wesslen Grant for Research in Data Analytics)
The Estimation of Congestion Cost and Congestion Price in Bangkok, Thailand by Bella Pawita Sunthornpong [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
The Effect of In-School Health Information on Adolescents’ Health Outcomes and Behaviors by Yifei Pei (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Determinants of Cap Rates Across Multifamily, Industrial Retail, and Office Asset Classes by Morgan Tsui (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Attendance Rates in Chicago, Illinois Public School: What Factors Lie Beneath? by Divya Venkat [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
Dynamic Correlation Structure Within the U.S. Stock Market: An Application of Quadrant Estimator and Score-Driven Model by Zhengtai Zheng (Wesslen Grant for Research in Data Analytics)
2022
The Determinants of U.S. Firms to Make Foreign Direct Investment Decisions in China at the Province-level by Jiarui Liu [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
Did the Suez Canal Blockage of 2021 Raise the Chinese Container Freight Rates? by Qianhui Fang (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
The Efficacy of Planned Obsolescence Strategies in the College Text Book Market by Samuel T. Loch and Joshua D. Van Mater (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Labor Market Transitions by Aiqi Sun (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Factors Affecting Sales of Electric Vehicles: A California Case Study by Shiying Cai & Zixuan Sammi Yan [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
Measuring Race and Ethnicity Gaps in U.S. Mortgage Approvals by Ray Carpenter (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
2021
Changes in the Zip-code Level Rent Distribution under COVID-19 and the Bid-rent Theory by Aiqi Sun and Yuan Yuan (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Does Peking Order Theory or Trade-Off Theory Better Explain U.S. Firms’ Leverage Behavior? by Xinyi Zhang and Yike Zhu (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Explaining US Stock Market Directions using Technical Indicators and Investor Sentiment by Hanlin Liu (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
Family-related Determinants of Bridge Employment Decisions in China by Xiaoyan Jiang (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Labor Market Discrimination in the English Premier League by Nico Rotundo (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
Understanding the Supply of N95 Respirators as a result of China’s Trade Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Heywood Williams-Tracy (The Guest Family Fund for Excellence in Economics)
2020
Big Fish in Bigger Ponds: The Effect of High School Academic Self-Concept on College Mental Health by Deepak Venkatasubramanian and Paige Masten (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
Comparing the Great Recession and COVID-19 Pandemic via GARCH Modeling Techniques by Thomas Morgan White (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
The Employment Effects of COVID-19 by Rashmi Patwardhan and Kassia Gibbs [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
Gender Specific Determinants of Household Production in Columbia by Mollie Pepper [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
How Policy Affects Movement: Population Mobility and the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe by Katie Baker [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
The Impact of Statewide Disease-Suppression on Unemployment and Health/Mortality due to COVID-19 by Sadie Emch [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Demand for Opioids by Avra Janz [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
Index Tracking With Moment Conditions by Hanzhao Yang (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
Is the Fama-French Three Factor Model Relevant for Asia? by Yimeng Hua and Wencheng Zhang (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
Labor Market Destruction and Unemployment by Hannah Doochin [The Underrepresented Majors (URM) Fund]
Market Structure in the Subscription Video on Demand Industry by Nico Rotundo (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
VAR Analysis of Economic Activity, Unemployment, and Inflation during Periods Preceding Recessions in the United States: COVID-19 by Noah T. Wessels (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
2019
The Determinants and Plans of North Carolina Restart Schools by Lilly Winfree and Ariella Hirsch (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
Geographic Impact of the Carolina Student Transfer Excellence Program on High School Outcomes as Indicators of College Readiness by Hannah Olmstead and Patrick Costley (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
Is Geopolitical Risk a Genuine Factor of the Financial Market? by Zhizhuo Wang and Yanchu Zhou (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
Market Regime Classification Using Correlation Networks by Fan Zhu and Cedric Nam (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
Matthew Guest Grant Final Research Report by Klaas van Kempen (The Guest Family Fund for Excelence in Economics)
2017
“Migration Status and Loan Default” by Ruyang Chengan and Jin Xi (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
“Crowdsourcing Forecasts of NonFarm Payrolls”by Peter Murphy and Amar Patel (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
“Portfolio Diversification and Return Benefits by REIT Property Types” by Zicheng Ye and Diana Song (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
2016
“Tax Delinquency and Location Efficiency, Evidence from Wake County, NC” by Ariana Vaisey (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
“Does Chinese Monetary Policy React to Her Stock Market?” by Jiaxi Li (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
2015
“The High Frequency Impact of News on Foreign Exchange Returns” by Ben Horlick and Paul Kushner (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
“Mean-Semivariance Portfolio Optimization, Skewness, and Modified Value at Risk” by Youndong Liu and Longxuan Wang (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
2014
“Extracting Market Implied Earnings from Equity Market Data” by Carter Bryson, Jesse Meredith, and Meiyao Tysinger (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)
2013
“Don’t be late: Examining the cost of latency” by Aakash Patel and Yize Wang (The Herbert Brown Mayo Award)