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Effects Of Bonds & Fed Funds On The Stock Market, Josh Nelson, Mason Koch
Effects Of Bonds & Fed Funds On The Stock Market, Josh Nelson, Mason Koch
Student Scholarship - College of Business
This paper is to investigate the relationship that Treasury bonds and Fed Funds have with the stock market. This research is valuable because the stock market is a major aspect of America’s economy, although many consider it unpredictable and difficult to understand. The goal of our research is to lessen this unpredictability, as well as to assess the inverse relationship that hypothetically exists between the stock market, bonds and Fed Funds. By employing an OLS regression model, this study finds the effect of Fed Funds is statistically and economically significant with regard to the stock market, also having the predicted …
Building A Soccer Dynasty, Carter Bedsole, Gary Buckley
Building A Soccer Dynasty, Carter Bedsole, Gary Buckley
Student Scholarship - College of Business
The soccer world operates as a free market. Buying, selling, and trading of players is vital to the success of a club. A successful soccer club brings a great deal of revenue and growth to a local economy. Therefore, clubs ought to be prudent when signing players. In this paper, we use ordinary least squares regressions on Major League Soccer player data from 2015-2018 to determine the effect strikers and goalkeepers have on team success. In other words, what is the marginal impact of a good striker relative to a bad one? A good goalkeeper relative to a mediocre one? …
Stay In School, Kids, Caleb Reynolds, Julia Wenndt
Stay In School, Kids, Caleb Reynolds, Julia Wenndt
Student Scholarship - College of Business
This paper presents an analysis of the effects of football wins percentage on universities’ retention rates. Using an OLS model we determine the causal relationship between football wins percentages, other independent variables, and universities’ retention rates. Throughout the paper we will define all relevant independent variables and present an overview of the data gathered in order to formulate our results. A theoretical framework will be presented followed by a thorough analysis of the OLS estimation results.