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Girls Just Wanna Have Funds, Caley Prunier Jan 2018

Girls Just Wanna Have Funds, Caley Prunier

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Flight To Quality In Cryptocurrencies, Scott Brockelbank Jr. Jan 2018

Flight To Quality In Cryptocurrencies, Scott Brockelbank Jr.

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The topic of cryptocurrencies has been on the forefront of investors’ minds as they have seen ridiculous returns from the volatile swings in price. Its value highly debated because the asset is not backed by a hard asset. If we look back at the beginning of our country, we see how each state had its own currency and the difficulties that users faced around who would accept that as legal tender. The birth of a federal currency was accepted because it served as a medium of exchange and was backed by gold through the U.S. government. The final evolution of …


Do President Trump’S Tweets Increase Uncertainty In The Us Economy?, Michael Simpson Jan 2018

Do President Trump’S Tweets Increase Uncertainty In The Us Economy?, Michael Simpson

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When President Trump tweets, does it change uncertainty in the economy? This study gathers President Trump’s tweets off his twitter accounts from October 2016 to October 2017 and classifies each of them as either negative (expected to increase uncertainty), positive (expected to decrease uncertainty) or neutral (no effect expected on uncertainty). I find that tweets with a negative sentiment were followed by an increase in uncertainty in the VIX and S&P 500 1 and 2 minutes after the tweet. Similar results were found for positive tweets. Non-neutral tweets increase trading volume in the VIX and S&P 500 by up to …


The Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule: How Will It Affect Financial Advisors And Their Clients?, Claire Hawkes Jan 2018

The Department Of Labor Fiduciary Rule: How Will It Affect Financial Advisors And Their Clients?, Claire Hawkes

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The Effect Of Remittance Inflows To India: An Empirical Analysis, Justin Poisson Jan 2018

The Effect Of Remittance Inflows To India: An Empirical Analysis, Justin Poisson

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This paper studies the relationship between remittance inflows and GDP in India. An empirical regression analysis is applied to India’s data to analyze the effect of remittance inflows to the level of GDP and GDP growth. Results show that remittance inflows have a positive and significant effect on the level of India’s GDP, and a positive but insignificant effect on GDP growth. Data used in this research come from the World Bank.