Previous Thesis Titles

YEAR

TITLE

2000

Arts Subsidies and the University of Virginia: The Arts Dollars Program on Stage

Beyond Pure Value: Modeling Auctions with Aftermarkets

A Comparative Study of Portuguese and Spanish Unemployment Behavior

Dissecting America’s Highway Congestion Crisis

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Performance? An Overview of School Choice and Analysis of the Charter School Movement in Michigan

The Economics of Professional Sort Teams and Stadiums

Overvaluation in the Investment-Grade Debt Market

Price Dispersion in Online Book Market: A Test of Market Immaturity

2001

The Employment and Wage Effects of Environmental Regulation: An Empirical Analysis of the Porter Hypothesis

Exploring the Traveler’s Dilemma: Multi-Player and Time Trend Effects

Games that Make You Think

How Moral Hazard and Asymmetry Influence Economic Decisions in Workers’ Compensation

Information Cascades and the Value of Information

The Minimum Wage as an Anti-Poverty Tool

On the European Economics Integration and the European Monetary System

Relevant Product Market Definition in the Antitrust Analysis of Airline Mergers and Acquisitions

A Review of Volatility Theories and their Implication for the Stock Market

A Survey of Resource Allocation Issues in Distributed Computing Systems: Structural Considerations, Market Mechanism Design, and Multi-Agent Interaction

2002

America’s Injured Pastime: An Examination of the Current Economic Condition of Major League Baseball and the Contribution of Payroll and Performance to Disparity Among Teams

Are State’s Expenditures of Tobacco Settlement Funds Adversely Affected by Variations in Demand?

An Assessment of Potential Remedies: United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation Civil Action No. 98-1232; State of New York, et. al. v. Microsoft Corporation Civil Action No. 98-1233

Building Roads Towards Growth: Capital Flows in the Developing World: a theoretical and empirical examination of FDI, portfolio investment, and economic growth in emerging market economies

Can Higher Uncertainties in Patent Litigation Improve Welfare?

Competition in the Spanish Banking Industry

Corporate Governance in Ohio 1803-1843

Does Divorce Matter? A Study of Divorce as an Independent Variable for Earnings and Education

Does Honesty Pay? The Effect of Seller Reputation on Bidder Behavior in eBay Auctions

The Economic Effects of Rent Control: The Case of San Francisco

An Eye for an Eye? Reciprocity in Wage/Effort Situations

Trade Liberalization and Deindustrialization: The Evidence from Ghana

2003

A Competitive Analysis of Slotting Allowances and Related Business Practices

The Competitive Balance in Baseball: An Analysis of the Coase Theorem and Free Agency in America’s Pastime

Demand and Drought: An Analysis of Water Consumption and Policy in Albemarle County During 2002

An Economic Interpretation of Virginia’s Nonimportation Associations 1769-1771

Feminism in Russia: Marginalization of Women During Perestroika

Mixed Strategy Nash Equilibrium and Shooting Penalty Kicks in Soccer

The “Must-Carry” Remedy: A Comparative Analysis of the Rulings in United States of America v. Microsoft Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation

Physician Behavior Modification: A Consequence of the Resource Based Relative Value Scale?

Rent control in San Francisco: The Distribution of Benefits among Tenants

2004

Do Financial Institutions Matter for Growth? A Literature Review and an Empirical Analysis of Central and Eastern European Countries

The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Implications for Central and Eastern European Trade

The Effect of Performance Enhancing Drugs on Olympic Performance

The Effect of the Unemployment Rate on the Approval Rate of Labor Condition Applications

The Escalating Cost of Medical Malpractice Insurance: An Empirical Analysis of Tort Liability Reforms

An Event Study Analysis of the PeopleSoft/J.D. Edwards Merger and the Potential Oracle Acquisition of PeopleSoft

On Reserve Prices in First-Price Sealed-Bid Auctions

Optimal Pricing on eBay: An Analysis of Shipping Price Setting

Payroll Caps and the Consequences for Competitive Balance and Reverence in Professional Sports: the NFL as a case study

Rethinking Effective Aid: Aid, Institutions and Government Expenditures

Welfare and Distributional Effects of Liberalizing Trade in Cotton *

What is …Game Theory? An Analysis of “Jeopardy!”

2005

An Analysis of the Validity of Firing Strategies in Fund-of-Funds

Course Enrollment 101: Equity and Efficiency in Course Allocation at UVa

Does Judge Panel Selection in Appeals Course Cases Affect the Stock Prices of Defendant Firms?

The Effects of Pharmaceutical Expenditures on Health Outcomes in Canada

Getting Slapped with a Parking Ticket by the Invisible Hand: The Economics of Parking Tickets *

An Option Pricing Approach to Single Default Probability

Program Effects of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program

Should We Be Concerned with Wal-Mart? A Look at the Power Buyer Issue

Similarities Between Inflation and Exchange Rate Expectational Errors: A Predictability and Correlation Analysis

2006

Analyzing SHOTS: The effect of Virginia’s student ticketing policy on student basketball attendance

Does Affirmative Action Affect the Production of New Lawyers? Measuring the Effect of Proposition 209 on California Law Students and Bar-Takers

An Economics Study of the Level and Flow of Mainland Chinese Students in the United States during the Past Two Decades

The Effects of Airline Bankruptcies on Corporate Governance

Examining the Benefits of Deregulating Natural Gas at the Distribution Level

Induced Innovation in Non-Hydro Renewable Technologies: The Effects of Energy Price and Federal Spending

Market Effects of Automobile Recalls

Measuring the Efficacy of Vocational Assessment for Transitioning Youth with Disabilities

Taking a Chance on College: Is the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship Program a Winner? *

Trade Preferences for Developing Countries

2007

Clearing the Bar: The Impact of Standards-Based Educational Reform in Virginia

Effects of Agricultural Trade Liberalization on Mexico-US Migration

The Effect of Project Exile on Gun Crime Violence

The Effects of Tort Reform on Infant Health

An Experimental Economics Analysis of the ”Binding Early Offers” Tort Reform Proposal

The Impact of Living Wage Ordinances on Urban Crime Rates

The Impact of State Motorcycle Helmet Laws on Motorcycle Accident Fatalities

Making Fruit Farms More Fruitful *

Provincial Party Secretaries and Economic Growth in the People’s Republic of China

Why Do Legislators Vote as the Do on Trade Policy? The Determinants of the CAFTA Vote in the U.S. House

2008

Cooperation and Friendship Choice Heuristics in Dynamic Local Interaction Networks

Crime in your Backyard: Using Natural Experiments to Evaluate Community Policing in Virginia Small Cities

Different Dormitories: Different Grades? Analyzing the Effect of Housing Environment on Academic Achievement

The Differing Determinants of Tournament Income and Endorsement Income for Professional Golfers

Discrete Choice and State Dependence: Approaches and Applications *

The Effects of State Physical Education Requirements on High School Students

Elective Aid and Incentives for Good Governance: Evidence from Countries on the Threshold of Receiving Aid Packages from the Millennium Challenge Corporation

Heterogeneous Endowment and College Major Choice

Microfinance and Educational Attainment in Rural Bangladesh

Public Reaction to National Threat Level