Browsing Economics URC Student Scholarship by Issue Date
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Baseball Economics: An Economic Analysis of the Present Situation in the Major League Baseball Players Market
(2000-01-01)As the current collective bargaining agreement for Major League Baseball is drawing to a close, the Commissioner, Bud Selig, is seeking reforms to prevent another work stoppage like the strike in 1994.The economic structure ... -
Benefits and Costs of European Union Enlargement: Should Central and Eastern European CountriesJoin the EU?
(2002-01-01)This research project tries to assess the impact of a future European Union enlargement on the economies of the candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe and on the current members of the Union. The study looks ... -
Economic Growth in East Asia After the Financial Crisis: Prospects for Taiwan, Malaysia, and South Korea
(2002-01-01)Over the past five decades, the countries of East Asia have achieved extraordinary economic growth rates. In just a single generation, these countries have successfully transformed themselves from isolated peasant economies ... -
Understanding the Causes and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries
(2003-01-01)This paper focuses on a particular type of financial flow to developing countries known as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). FDI has been increasing in importance as a source of financial resources for developing countries ... -
Germany on the Road to Reform
(2003-01-01)The German economy is facing serious short- and long-term challenges, the most pressing of which are high unemployment levels and slow GDP growth in recent years. The roots of the problems lie in the structural rigidities ... -
The Currency Board in Bulgaria: Is It the Best Solution?
(2004-01-01)Currency boards have always been a subject of debate. While they may significantly improve the quality of the national currency, they block discretionary monetary power and may cause severe economic problems. Currency Board ... -
The Crimes of Tobacco
(2004-01-01)My research was intended to grasp an understanding into the legal issues surrounding the relatively recent wave of tobacco litigation and to determine whether these issues were economically valid. The main issues brought ... -
CEO Compensation and the Tournament Theory: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Data.
(2004-01-01)With its increase of 571% between 1990 and 2000, chief executive officer compensation has become a topic of vigorous debate both in the media and in economics. One approach to CEO pay is the tournament theory, introduced ... -
Poverty Reduction, Power Struggles, and the Issue of Commitment
(2005-01-01)Struggling countries that need financial resources but lack the credibility to access them usually turn to the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) for help. The IFIs respond by providing Structural Adjustment Loans ... -
Fan Attendance in Major League Baseball
(2005-01-01)What attracts fans to Major League Baseball games? In sports economics this is an essential question to answer since fan behavior often has significant effects on the different aspects of the baseball business. The current ... -
The Economics of Liberal Arts Education
(2005-01-01)For the past couple of decades, college tuition prices have risen consistently and substantially. Leading this trend are the national liberal arts colleges, which tend to depend largely on their students? tuition payments ... -
The End of the Hukou System in China and its Implications for Rural-Urban Migration Carl Edwards and Rohan Shah
(2005-01-01)In the early 1950?s a universal registration system called the Hukou system was established in China. Although its original purpose was to simply study demographics and mobility in the country, the classification of ... -
Swiss Banking: Reserve Fund and Regulation
(2005-01-01)The overall purpose of my Richter project is to explore the relationship between Switzerland?s banking regulation, focusing on the roles of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission, the government financial regulator, and the ... -
Whose music is it: re-examining copyright in a cut-and-paste world
(2005-01-01)Under the current legal system, the primary economic incentive to create digital music files lies in the ability to copyright digital information and sell exclusive usage rights to consumers.The government intervenes in ... -
Power Games In Early China From Game Theoretical Perspectives
(2005-01-01)My research studies an intersection between game theory and history to provide insights into three specific early Chinese historical events. The insights include main factors of the outcomes of these three events, some ... -
A Cost Benefit Analysis of Market Based School Reform
(2006-01-01)American public schools have failed to substantially increase their production from the 1970s despite a substantial increase in dollars spent. One proposed remedy for America?s failing public schools is to subject schools ... -
Probit Model for Trans-State Theatre-Ticket Sales
(2007-01-01)Do ticket-scalping laws affect the sales of tickets resold online? Currently, many states have laws regarding ticket resale while no federal law exists governing the resale of tickets across states. Due to the spread of ... -
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Environmental Innovation: An Examination of Dry Cleaning Businesses in California
(2008-01-01)Dry cleaners in the United States use a chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc, in order to remove difficult stains from garments. However, perc is considered a hazardous air pollutant by the United States Environmental ... -
The Clean Water Act and California's Coast: An Economic Analysis
(2008-01-01)The ocean, which covers more than three quarters of the Earth?s surface, is not only one of the largest natural resources but also one of the most delicate. Unfortunately, the ocean continues to show signs of degradation ... -
What is Holding Back Mexican Immigrant Entrepreneurs?
(2008-01-01)My study focuses on the reasons Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs perform worse than native-born whites when self employed. The Mexican immigrant population is the largest in the United States, making up 29.6 percent of the ...