Economics Department

Titles of Past Theses

Agamalian, Gregory Mark. ('06) "The effect of urban stream shade coverage on property values : a hedonic property analysis of an urban watershed in southeast Portland, Oregon"

Anderson, Michael W. ('06) "Development effort and prospect giving : absolute and marginal effects"

Anderson, Steven F. ('02) "Market solutions to state inefficiencies : the case of basic telecommunications in Latin America"

Bica-Huiu, Alina. ('04) "Toward a common security and defense policy : the puzzle of political and military integration in the EU"

Burrell, Brian. ('06) "Islamic equity investments : financial performance and impact on firm behavior"

Buss, Christian. ('00) "Enrollment yield at selective liberal-arts colleges"

Butsic, Van. ('03) "Estimating a price for water rights in the Umpqua Basin"

Campos, Mychal Fernan. ('00) "Preventing capital flight : capital controls and the Asian financial crisis"

Carter, Maria. ('01) "Tribal casinos and their effects on local communities"

Chalier, Annick Elisabeth. ('00) "Which is the fairer sex? : gender-based behavioral differences in a bargaining experiment"

Chan, Martin. ('00) "Combined sewer overflow : an analytical study on Portland's sewage treatment and the environment "

Chavez, James. ('01) "Understanding Mexican migration to the United States : determinants of the repatriation of earnings"

Chlapowski, Roland. ('04) "What is economic success? : a theoretical and empirical investigation of the measurement of economic progress and humanwellbeing"

Cleff, Lauren. ('04) "The Nicaraguan small farmer meets the world market"

Cressey, Monique J. ('04) "Geographic variation in physician density and the corresponding relationship to health outcomes : an exploratory study of the U.S."

Decker, Christina Marie. ('03) "The UMTS auctions in the UK and Germany"

Dhami, Stela. ('03) "Why does so little foreign direct investment flow to developing countries?"

Dorobantu, Cosmina L. ('03) "The effects of the European Union enlargement process on foreign direct investment in Central and Eastern Europe"

Feighner, Gordon. ('01) "To bank or not to bank : a feasibility analysis of establishing salmon habitat banking programs in the Portland metro area"

Findley, Timothy Devon. ('03) "Property Rights, efficiency, and transaction costs: the role of law and markets in western water allocation"

Finlay, Keith Ferguson. ('00) "High-definition television : a case study in standardization"

Geiger, Colin. ('04) "NAFTA's effect on the structure of Mexico's economy"

Gidycz, Daniel C. ('06) "Interest rates and deficit expectations using real-time data"

Goud, Richard Blakeney,  Jr. ('03) "The determinants of firm performance in transition : empirical evidence from 25 countries in central and western Europe and the former Soviet Union"

Green, Donald S. ('04) "Principal agent theory : case study of the Presidio Trust"

Hadley, Bryson. ('04) "Tax evasion and hidden economic activity in the United States"

Hoel, Jessica B. ('05) "Testing the effects of U.S. presidential election expectations on exchange rates"

Hoffman, Alexandra Ellen. ('06) "Historic preservation and the housing market : a hedonic study of the historic preservation property tax freezeinPortland, OR"

Hopkins, Katherine R. ('04) "An economic analysis of academic departments in a liberal arts college"

Hu, Carol. ('03) "The agricultural surplus-extraction mechanism: an explanation for owner-cultivated land reform in Taiwan"

Huyler, Alice. ('02) "Explaining the difference between women's and men's unemployment rates : evidence from 11 OECD countries"

Ivanov, Alexander Ivanov. ('04) "Bank deregulation revisited : relationship banking and the bank merger wave in the U.S."

Johnson, Lin  III. ('02) "Reconsidering gender and investment in the intrahousehold decision-making process"

Jordan, David. ('01) "A special report for Tony Blair (what to do about EMU)"

Kundu, Jayeeta. ('04) "Thinner is better : a study of liquid crystals and the liquid crystal display"

Kuznik, Ferdinand N. ('04) "Electronic-trading : an efficient alternative to open-outcry?"

Lancefield, N. Daniel. ('02) "An economic analysis of converting Claritin to over-the-counter status"

Loving, Kimberly. ('02) "The social role of parks in South Africa : the costs and benefits of conservation"

Lutzenhiser, Margot D. ('00) "Measuring natural resource scarcity: a study of the petroleum industry "

Macindoe, Marian. ('02) "Don't cry for the currency board, Argentina : exchange regimes and their economic and political consequences"

Madar, Laurel Marie. ('05) "Individual action, segregation and gentrification"

Marthers, Paul. ('05 MALS) "Faculty salary policies at small liberal arts colleges : has market-driven differential pay replaced the equity principle?" Paul Marthers."

McClellan, Gregory. ('01) "Broadband internet : transformation of market structure through technological advancement"

McNeil, Christian N. ('03) "Demand for lift-serviced winter recreation :  national trends and local determinants of ski area choice"

Merrick, Owen. ('01) "Understanding Mexican migration to the United States : determinants of the repatriation of earnings"

Mumtaz, Jalal Akbar. ('04) "Reconsidering gender in the rural agricultural sector of transitional economies : case of Vietnam"

Mumtaz, Meharyar Nadir. ('01) "Dynamic intrahousehold modeling with market failures"

Munro, Kirstin M. E. ('06) "Wage differentials by language group in Quebec"

Murphy, Paul Edward. ('02) "Relating corporate financial and environmental performance"

Nagel, Aviel Hirsch. ('03) "Modeling commercial real estate : an empirical analysis of ten west coast markets"

Nankova, Tsvetanka Dimitrova. ('02) "Understanding the determinants of foreign direct investment in Bulgaria"

Narayanan, Anaka. ('04) "Does civic participation affect school quality?"

Nikolaeva, Rositsa Ognyanova. ('05) "The effects of third-party environmental certification on share prices : an event study"

Oster, Elizabeth Kittredge. ('00) "A policy analysis of the Oregon health plan"

Purnat, Tina. ('00) "Worker co-operatives in transition economies: behavior of internally-privatized firms in Slovenia "

Rainsberger, Elisabeth Leslie. ('00) "U.S. Bancorp's acquisition of Western Bancorp : an event study"

Rajpal, Payal. ('02) "Determinants of migration in a little village in India : 1942- 1977"

Rempel, Christopher J. ('05) "Long-term elder care quality"

Savoir, Yves Alexandre. ('05) "A hedonic analysis of transportation accessibility and its effect on housing prices in the Portland metropolitan area"

Sirek-Love, Jennifer. ('02) "Tax policy and investment in industrial combined heat and power"

Slavova, Branimira. ('02) "Impacts of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic on capital accumulation and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa"

Stalder, Westri-David. ('02) "Speculative bubble theory and the economics of fashion"

Stephenson, Phillip D. ('05) "An empirical analysis of the relationship between telecommunications and economic growth, 1981-2000"

Stoichkov, Ognian Iankov. ('97) "An economic theory of privatization on Eastern Europe"

Tanguay, Elspeth Teagarden. ('00) "Technology diffusion, trade and growth empirics"

Teele, Dawn Langan. ('06)"Child labor and the minimum age to work convention"

Tilov, Dinko. ('04) "The economics of open source software"

Twieg, Peter. ('06) "Complexity and control : an analysis on synthetic economy design"

Wangdi, Kelsang Y. ('00) "Measuring social welfare in the Columbia River Gorge"

Weighter, Rachael Emily. ('03) "European integration and the location decisions of U.S. multinational enterprises"

Wilsey, Rachel. ('03) "The market for the performing arts:  a case study of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival"

Wilson, Sarah Eileen. ('02) "A perfect ten : the short life of Alexander Hamilton and his bank, 1757-1804 and 1790-1811"

Woods, Robin Valli. ('06) "Self governance and tribe economic development : a case study of the northern Cheyenne and Crow tribes"