STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT of ECONOMICS

HONOR THESES 2004

AUTHOR	THESIS TITLE	DATE
Peter Blaustein	Speculator Hesitation in Liquidity Shocks (pdf)	May 2004
Stewart A. Campbell	Price Effects Surrounding Composition Changes of the S&P 500: Aggregate Effects since 1999 (pdf)	March 2004
Johnny P. Chen	Non-Performing Loan Securitization in the People’s Republic of China (pdf)	May 2004
Larissa N. F. Cheong	Medical Savings Accounts in Singapore: The Impact of Medisave and Income on Health Care Expenditure (pdf)	May 2004
Ann Cho	An Empirical Study of the Effects of Downloads on CD Album Sales (Abstract Only) (pdf)	June 2004
Justin Diener	Restricting City Growth in California: Are Wealthy, Homogeneous Cities More Likely to Adopt Urban Growth Boundaries? (pdf)	May 2004
Dilyana D. Dimova	The Benefits of Privatizing Banks to Strategic Foreign Investors: A Survey of Central and Eastern Europe (pdf)
Ricardo Fernholz	China, Japan, and Maintaining an International Competitive Balance under a Fixed Exchange Rate (pdf)	May 2004
Fernando Galeana	Explaining the Demand for Land Titling in Mexico: Credit and Urbanization in the Ejido Sector (pdf)
Victoria Garcia-Rubiales	Unemployment in Spain: An Analysis of Labor Mobility and Young Adult Unemployment (pdf)
Doug Geyser	Believe the Hype: The Salience of National Rankings for College Sports Betting Markets and Implications for Market Efficiency (pdf)	May 2004
William Walker Hanlon	An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Trade Policies: The Softwood Lumber Example (pdf)	April 2004
Nicole Hildebrandt	The Effects of Migration on Child Health in Mexico (pdf)	May 2004
Nathaniel Green Hilger	Market Liberalization, Labor Unions and Real Wages in Mexico, 1984-1998 (pdf)	May 2004
Yvonne Hung	China's One-Child Policy: Regional Regulation Variation & the Sex-Ratio at Birth (pdf)	May 2004
Kamilah Jackson	Adherence to Treatment and Health Outcomes: A possible explanation for the SES Health Gradient (pdf)	May 2004
Alexander Kendall	Stochastic Bundling with and without a Secondary Market (pdf)	May 2004
Vandita Khullar	The Battle of the Stock Exchanges: Are Large Companies Worth More if They List on the NYSE? (pdf)	May 2004
Elizabeth Madjlessi	Factors Affecting State Budgetary Imbalances (pdf)	June 2004
Ariel McGinnis	The Effect of Earthquake Risk on the San Francisco Bay Area Housing Market: How Has it Changed Since the Loma Prieta and Northridge Earthquakes? (pdf)	May 2004
Jordan A. Miller	“Why Is Everyone Taking the LSAT?” A Model of the Demand for Law School (pdf)	May 2004
Brian Paulson	Replacing Defined Benefit Pensions: An Analysis of the Trend Towward Defined Contribution and Cash Balance Plans (pdf)	May 2004
Adam Michael Rapp	Explaining the Bankruptcy ‘Crisis’ in English Football Ownership Style and the Wage-Performance Relationship 1996-2003 (pdf)	May 2004
Faisal N. Rashid	Juvenile Crime and Punishment: Assessing the Relationship between Violent Crime Rates and Punishment, 1982-1992 (pdf)	May 2004
Florian Reichling	Effects of Reputation Mechanisms on Fraud Prevention in eBay Auctions (pdf)	May 2004
Rizwan Sabar	Switching Dynamics: An Analysis of Changes in Methods of Service Provision at the Local Government Level, 1982-2002 (pdf)	June 2004
Marika Semerdzhian	The Effects of Expensing Employee Stock Options and A New Approach to the Valuation Problem (pdf)	May 2004
Rebecca Marie Tabb	Intergenerational Labor Supply (pdf)	June 2004
Julia Nicole Thornton	International Debt Sustainability Reconciling Debt Intolerance with Original Sin (pdf)	May 2004
George Keen Fai Tong	The Political Economy of Shock Therapy Reform (pdf)	May 2004
Jessica Williams	The Effects of Host Country Governance on Long Term Investment by Foreign Owned Establishments (pdf)	May 2004
Alexandra Yestrumskas	Should I choose the harder path? Gender differences in an experiment on task choice (pdf)	May 2004