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Finance And Accounting Dual-Degree Proposal, Meghan Finley
Finance And Accounting Dual-Degree Proposal, Meghan Finley
Senior Honors Projects
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Uri And Its Students: A Contract For The Provision Of A Safe Environment, Danielle Joan Beatrice
Uri And Its Students: A Contract For The Provision Of A Safe Environment, Danielle Joan Beatrice
Senior Honors Projects
DANIELLE BEATRICE (English; Philosophy; Business) URI and Its Students: A Contract for the Provision of a Safe Environment
Sponsor: Judith Swift (Communication Studies, Coastal Institute)
When students begin to attend college, they expect to be consumed with busy schedules, heavy workloads, and an exciting social life. Students do not anticipate being in dangerous situations. However, this does not mean that such situations do not occur. Therefore, it is essential to teach students to be active participants in educating themselves and their peers regarding prevention and response to emergency situations. My Honors Project aims to increase the awareness of safety-related issues …
The Impact Of Social Media On Reputational Risk, Samantha Claire Hamilton
The Impact Of Social Media On Reputational Risk, Samantha Claire Hamilton
Senior Honors Projects
In the era of social media, reputation is a crucial feature of business activity and can help companies attract customers and reach the economies of scale and scope that justify their investment. Reputational risk is a challenging topic. This is partly because it involves temporal perception and stock market frenzy like we saw with the first bubble, Tulipmania, and the Dotcom Bubble. These potential threats have strengthened due
to social media platforms playing a main role in these “panic-in, panic out” investing behaviors. As we see from many company crises, this reputational value can grow and then disappear in moments. …
An Investment Guide For Millennials, Joshua Perkins
An Investment Guide For Millennials, Joshua Perkins
Senior Honors Projects
While almost a majority of Gen Xers and Baby Boomers invest in the stock market, only a mere one-third of Millennials invest. In today’s economy, Millennials experience a range of financial challenges, including student debt, rising rents, and lower starting salaries. A recent study has found that the average retirement age for Millennials will be 75 years old, 10 years older than the average retirement age today. Most young adults do not realize the importance of saving, investing early, and the power of compounding returns in order to be more financially stable in the future.
Over the course of my …
Senior Business Seminar Proposal, Alex C. Mcgrainer
Senior Business Seminar Proposal, Alex C. Mcgrainer
Senior Honors Projects
How could a single idea increase the value of a university’s college of business? My project aims to do this through the successful implementation of a single class. It addresses some of the most important factors that current and prospective students should consider while they undergo their college searches, such as the post-graduation employment rate and starting salary across majors of interest.
My inspiration for the topic came from students struggling to find a job. I realized that every year around March, they would begin to suffer due to the self-inflicted pressure of being unemployed after commencement. I immediately knew …
Microloans, Macro Impact, Kelly M. Frank
Microloans, Macro Impact, Kelly M. Frank
Senior Honors Projects
Nearly half of today’s population is living in poverty, meaning that they are living on less than $2.50 a day. The lack of capital creates a vicious cycle for those in poverty. The less fortunate do not have sufficient access to education, healthcare, proper nutrition and loans. This forces those living in poverty to focus on getting by one day at a time instead of looking to the future. Those with a lack of sufficient income can’t get access to loans because of the risk associated with lending to subprime borrowers.
However, microfinance loans change this. They are unique because …
Short - Term Investing, Matt J. Abraitis
Short - Term Investing, Matt J. Abraitis
Senior Honors Projects
Launched in March of 1957, The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index (The S&P 500) was the first index to be published daily. Starting with an indicator in 1923 for 233 companies, and then growing to 416 in 1941, today it is used as a common benchmark for the health of the U.S. stock market with 500 companies. These 500 companies offer some of the largest stocks (claims of ownership in public American companies) in the United States although it is not the only index to gauge the health of the economy. In 2012, Standard & Poor’s combined its index operations …
Is America Still Free?, Connor P. Daigle
Is America Still Free?, Connor P. Daigle
Senior Honors Projects
If we take a moment and observe our current societal landscape, we may be intrigued by what we find. If we paint a broad brush over the 21st century, we are engaged in war in the Middle East, we have allowed our politicians to purchase their seats in office, and have overcome two large economic downturns. The economic issues are the collapse of Enron, the world’s largest energy supplier, and the housing market collapse of 2008. How many know what actually created the housing bubble? How many know about Enron? How many American Citizens understand how our current society …
Cars For A Cause, Lauren Pagani
Cars For A Cause, Lauren Pagani
Senior Honors Projects
Cars for a Cause is a car show, ranging from modern European, Japanese, muscle, track-ready and a variety of other cars, which is intended to raise money for the charitable organization, The Alzheimer’s Association, which helps to find a cure for Alzheimer’s and Dementia. According to The Alzheimer’s Association, approximately 5.3 million Americans are affected by this disease making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. By hosting an event tied to this horrific disease that affects a large number of individuals and their families, the hope is to generate a larger crowd of event-goers that …
Alternate Models For Forecasting Hedge Fund Returns, Michael A. Holden
Alternate Models For Forecasting Hedge Fund Returns, Michael A. Holden
Senior Honors Projects
Alternate Models for Forecasting Hedge Fund Returns
Michael Holden
Faculty Sponsor: Gordon Dash, Finance and Decision Sciences
Investors have always wanted to improve the efficiency of modeling realized volatility to maximize directional trading returns and substantially improve profitability. As proposed, this honors project will provide evidence from hedge fund returns that a Radial-Basis Function (RBF) artificial neural network (ANN), specifically the Kajiji-4 RBF-ANN dominates other forecast methods in producing one-period ahead change-of-direction when forecasting the expected returns of various hedge fund indexes.
I began this project by collecting historical economic data in monthly increments to serve as the dependent variables. …
Bond Volatility Transmissions Between United States And European Markets, Seth Kulman
Bond Volatility Transmissions Between United States And European Markets, Seth Kulman
Senior Honors Projects
Bond Volatility Transmissions Between United States and European Markets
Seth Kulman
Faculty Sponsor: Gordon Dash, Finance and Decision Sciences
Recent events have illustrated the degree of connection between the world’s economies. Economic events occurring in one country are felt in countless others, most vividly demonstrated by the onset of a worldwide recession following the financial collapse in the United States. Volatility no longer stays contained within one local economy.
The purpose of this study is to examine volatility spillovers between the United States and European bond markets. To identify volatility effects in a given country, we will be using a …
Evaluating Long Term Political Consequences Of Economic Restructuring Programs, James Mcgee
Evaluating Long Term Political Consequences Of Economic Restructuring Programs, James Mcgee
Senior Honors Projects
Development assistance loans provided by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are accompanied by structural adjustment programs that must be implemented as a condition of receiving the loan. These economic reforms often include currency devaluation, inflation control, increased taxation, market liberalization, decreased expenditure, and a decrease in the size of government. Populations within countries are drastically effected by these structural economic reforms as social welfare programs are often cut, government workers laid off, and the domestic economy struggles to compete in the global marketplace. The implementation of restructuring programs also constrains the policy options that are available to the …
Corporate Ethics And Ceo Compensation, Martin Mack
Corporate Ethics And Ceo Compensation, Martin Mack
Senior Honors Projects
Corporate ethics and chief executive officer (CEO) compensation will be forever linked together. The dramatic increase in recent corporate scandals has driven increased scrutiny of the enormous executive salaries that CEOs collect each year. The connection between these two topics led me to explore how executive compensation plans are designed and how ethics affect executives’ decision making. In this paper I try to determine which financial factors are the best indicators of a CEO’s compensation. I also examine how profitable a company is with an ethical CEO compared to a company with an unethical CEO. The companies I use are …