CSB/SJU Celebrating Scholarship Day – Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Department of Economics – ECON 384 (Advanced Research in Economics) Presentations
9:00am to 10:15am – first set of concurrent sessions
CSB Main 324 – Agricultural and Energy Economics
Joseph Kack – “Trends in Midwest Farmland Values, 1970 to the Present”
Christopher Orgas – “The Ethanol Industry’s Influence on Corn Prices”
James Crea – “An Economic Analysis of the Use of Alternative Fuels”
CSB Main 323 – International Economics
Antonique Hanna – “The Role and Significance of Foreign Direct Investment on the
Growth of the Bahamian Economy”
Weiyi Wang – “An Economic Analysis of the Bilateral Japanese-Australian Free Trade
Agreement”
Max McParland – “Why Does Retail Differ Across Countries?”
CSB Main 320 – Applications of Supply and Demand
Joseph Long – “An Economic Analysis of Major League Baseball Attendance, 2006-12”
Charles Kirscht – “Shifting Gender Enrollments in Public and Private Colleges, 1970 to
2010”
10:15am to 10:30am – break
10:30am to 11:45am – second set of concurrent sessions
CSB Main 324 – Labor Economics
Anna Williams – “Economic Push and Pull Factors on Mexican Immigration to the U.S.,
1987 to 2011”
Natalie Landwehr – “Temporary Help Services: an Economic Indicator?”
CSB Main 323 – Public Policy Economics
John Loonan – “The Supply and Demand of Commercial Paper and the Federal
Reserve’s Commercial Paper Funding Facility”
Brandon Oswald – “The Economic Consequences of the PAE Act of 2006 on the U.S.
Postal Service”
Michael King – “Scandinavian Slopes: Tracing the Recovery of the Neighboring Nordics
and Fears of a Double-Dip Recession”
11:45am – lunch for presenting students, their parents/guests, and faculty and staff in the 3rd floor
Rotunda area
note: in CSB Main 320 during the 10:30am to 11:45am period, two student projects (one by Broderson,
the other by Heitzen and Tengen) under the direction of Prof. Louis Johnston will be presented