STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT of ECONOMICS

HONOR THESES 2003

AUTHOR	THESIS TITLE	DATE
Adam B. Banks	Explaining Participation Rates in the Food Stamp Program (pdf)	May 2003
Erin A. Boyd	Has Medi-Cal’s Shift to Managed Care Changed Access to Primary Care for Children? (pdf)	May 2003
Soravit Chairoj	Exchange Rate Arrangements and the Hedging Problem in East Asia (pdf)	May 2003
Eric Chaney	Institutional Inertia: Political Legitimacy in Muslim Iberia (pdf)	May 2003
Annie Chau	On Aristotle and Marx: A Critique of Aristotelian Themes in Marxist Labor Theory (pdf)	May 2003
Yasmine Coupal	Macroeconomic Populism in Venezuela (pdf)	May 2003
Benn Eifert	Political Equality and the Performance of African Economies, 1972-1999 (pdf)	May 2003
Ashwini Jayaratnam	How Does The Black Market Exchange Premium Affect Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)? (pdf)	May 2003
Joe Kanada	Inside and Outside the Boundaries of the European Union: The Impacts of a Monetary Union on Tourism in Spain (pdf)	May 2003
Avinash Kaza	Political Determinants of Indian Social Development (pdf)	May 2003
Pueo Keffer	Housing Preferences of Spanish-Speaking Migrants (pdf)	April 2003
Elizabeth Levey	Heterogeneous Responses to an Increase in Health Insurance Premiums (pdf)	May 2003
Sumir Meghani	A State-Level Examination of Rural Poverty in India from 1983-1994 (pdf)	May 2003
Daniel P. Miller	Housing Prices and the Elderly Population’s Welfare (pdf)	May 2003
Jack Moore	Long-Term Consequences Of Youth Unemployment (pdf)	May 2003
Sasank Mudunuri	Information Transmission Under Competition (pdf)	May 2003
Peter Grosvenor Munzig	Enron and the Economics of Corporate Governance (pdf)	June 2003
Charles Najda	Low-Cost Carriers and Low Fares: Competition and Concentration in the U.S. Airline Industry (pdf)	May 2003
Filipp Nisenzoun	The Correlation of Executive Compensation and Shareholder Wealth Through Patent Data (pdf)	June 2003 (revised for style, December 10, 2004)
Manish G. Patel	Exploring the Research Behavior of University Professors Through Patent Data (pdf)	May 2003
Scott Rasmussen	Going long with baskets: A cost-benefit comparison of exchange traded funds and index mutual funds (pdf)	December 2002
Wendy Sheu	Driving Away Inequities: Uncovering the Distributional Effects of A Gasoline Tax (pdf)	May 2003
Justin Svec	The Effects of Issuing Subordinated Debt on the Banking Industry (pdf)	May 2003
Tiffany Ya-De Wong	Move Over, First Mover A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of First-Mover Advantage in the Internet Economy (pdf)	June 2003
Erez Yoeli	In December, Diamonds are Forever: Empirical evidence of counter-cyclical pricing in a durable goods market. (pdf)	May 2003
Yinne Yu	The Impact of Private International Cartels on Developing Countries (pdf)	May 2003