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The economics department offers a major, minor and electives for undergraduates and a Ph.D. program.

Recent Dissertations and Job Placement

Year Name and current position Title of dissertation (field)
2007 Chyanda M. Querido

Bank of America

A Game-Theoretic Approach to Mass Killing and War
2007 John Moore

 

Inter-district Choice in the State of Massachusetts
2007 Suchandra Basu

Rhode Island College

OSHA Transboundary Pollution Spill-ins and Local Regulatory Response
2006 Anna Belova

ABT Associates

Equivocal Enforcement: Regulatory Disputes in OSHA
2006

Bhramar Dey

National Exchange Carrier Association

Revealing Agency Preferences: The Case of OSHA
2006

Soma Ghosh

Bridgewater State College

Strategic Interaction Among Local Governments: A Spatial Analysis of Spillover of Public Goods
2006

Ladislav Wintr

National Bank of Belgium

Three Essays Analyzing Internet Markets
2005

Bander Al-Abdulkarim

Prince Sultan University

An Analysis of Macroeconomic Fluctuations for a Small, Open, Oil-Based Open Economy: the Case of Saudi Arabia (international macro)
2005

Hamza Al-Salem

The Demand for International Foreign Reserves of Energy-Exporting Countries (international macro)
2005

Rabia Aslam

University of Management and Technology (Pakistan)

Measuring the Peace Dividend: Evidence from Developing Economics
2005

Nirupama Devaraj

Valpariso University

Exit and Voice: An Analysis of Direct Participation in a Tiebout Framework
2005

Vladislav Vladimir Dolgopolov

Mildred Elley College

Budget Deficit and Debt Accumulation: An Empirical Test of Two Theories
2005

Nevila Kote

Bank of America

The UN Security Council Veto: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

2005

Ieva Rubene

European Central Bank

Does inflation-targeting matter: an analysis of the European Central Bank Common Monetary Policy (macro money)

2005

Trufat Bekele Woldesenbet

Efficiency of Representative Democracy: A Comparative Study of Two Competing Models

2004

Michael Fragkias

Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) - an IHDP Core Project

Arizona State University

Essays in Applied Spatial Economics (spatial economics and urban)

2004

Landy Johnson

Assumption College (administration)

A Spatially-Explicit, Individual-Based Economic Model of Wetlands Losses in Urban and Rural Areas of Mississippi from 1982-1992” (environmental)

2004

Elizabeth Wark

Springfield College

The Impact of Health Insurance on the Determinants of Medical Expenditures in the United States from 1987 to 1996 (health)

2003

Constantine Alexandrakis

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Research and Development, Real Interest Rate, and Technological Growth (macro)

2003

Vjacheslav Dombrovsky

Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies (Research Fellow) and Stockholm School of Economics (at Riga)

Two Essays on Public Sector Economics (public finance)

2003

Zahid Hafeez

American Express

Long-run Analysis of the Impact of EPA and OSHA Regulation on Manufacturing Productivity (environmental)

2003

Aleksandra Simic

ICF Consulting International (UK)

Internalizing Pollution Externalities through Out-Migration (environmental)

2002

Rita Babihuga

International Monetary Fund

Estimating the Optimal Size of Government in the Context of Endogenous Growth Model (public finance)

2002

Sunil Maheshwari

Dominion Power Company (Virginia)

Economic Growth and the Environment:  An Examination of Indian Data (environmental)

2002

George Andrew Riley

(Self-Employed)

Technology, High Technology, and Interstate Earnings Inequality (macro)

2001

Saad Aslam

United Health Care (Connecticut)

Determinants of Consumption in the Long-Run and Short-Run:  A Critical Analysis of the Implications of Permanent Income Hypothesis (macro)

2001

Robert Thomas Jones

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Can Migration Lead to the de facto Merging of Rich and Poor Communities:  A Special Application to the Provision of Medicaid (health)

2001

Socrates Karidis

 

Fiscally Induced Migration in the European Union (public finance)

2001

Bansari Saha

ICF Consulting (Lexington, MA)

Impact of Air and Water Pollution on Housing Prices:  A Spatial Hedonic Analysis for the Pulp and Paper Industry (environmental)

2001

Aparna Sau

Impact of Exchange Rate Change in a Spatial Model of Differentiated Goods (international trade and industrial organization)

2001

Elizabeth Pitney Seidler

 

A Comparison of Access to Health Care for the Black and White Populations in the United States Over the Past Twenty-five Years (health)

2000

Jon Boulet

North Greenville College (Tigerville, SC)

The Austro-Hungarian Empire as an Optimal Currency Area (international macro and economic history)

2000

Yamini Gupt

University of Delhi

Pollution in a Spatial Model (environmental and industrial organization)

2000

Colin Vance

The Rheinland-Westphalia Research Institute in Essen, Germany

Land-Use Change, Deforestation, and Peasant Farm Systems;  A Case Study of Mexico's Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region (environmental and spatial)


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