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The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that the following members of the Class of 2004 have been conferred College Honors for outstanding academic achievement and for successfully completing a research thesis of honors quality:
Nikolay
Filchev
Honors Thesis: "Labor Unions in a Changing Europe"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Giorgio Secondi
Matthew
Hennessy
Honors Thesis: "Domestic Petroleum Policy in the United States:
Recommendations for an Efficiently Operating Market"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Woody Studenmund
Christopher
Hofmann
Honors Thesis: "The Austrian Theory of the Business Cycle: An
Empirical Approach"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jim Halstead
Branko
Iossifov
Honors Thesis: "Should the
United Kingdom Adopt the Euro As Its Currency?"
Faculty Mentor:
Professor Jim Whitney
Drenusha
Kusari
Honors Thesis: "The Efficiency and Equity Effects of
Immigration in the European Union"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jim Whitney
Rachel
Laybourn
Honors Thesis: "Payday Lending and Inner Cities"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Giorgio Secondi
Niko
Lindell
Honors Thesis: "Executive Compensation—Costs and Benefits of
Indexed Stock Options"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Robby Moore
Lauren
Posin
Honors Thesis: "The Economics of Smoking: A Public Policy
Analysis"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Sita Nataraj
Courtney
Ross
Honors Thesis: "The Economic Attractiveness of the Proposed
Eastside Extension Light Rail Project in Los Angeles"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Mike Tamada
Lauretta
Wild
Honors Thesis: "The United States and Immigration: What is the Best
Policy?"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Sita Nataraj
Evan
Woods
Honors Thesis: "Toward
a Socially Efficient Policy Concerning Cocaine and Heroin Use"
Faculty Mentor: Professor Jim Halstead