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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2016, Leonard Lardaro Dec 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2016, Leonard Lardaro Nov 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2016, Leonard Lardaro Oct 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2016, Leonard Lardaro Sep 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Certificate In Energy Economics And Policy, Andrée J. Rathemacher Aug 2016

Certificate In Energy Economics And Policy, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Library Impact Statements

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2016, Leonard Lardaro Aug 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2016, Leonard Lardaro Jul 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2016, Leonard Lardaro May 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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High School Music Program Participation And Subsequent Strength Of The Local Music Economy., Andrew Segal May 2016

High School Music Program Participation And Subsequent Strength Of The Local Music Economy., Andrew Segal

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

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No Frills = No Thrills? An Econometric Study Of The Effects Of Airline Baggage Fee Charges, Hao You Apr 2016

No Frills = No Thrills? An Econometric Study Of The Effects Of Airline Baggage Fee Charges, Hao You

Undergraduate Craft of Research Prize Papers

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2016, Leonard Lardaro Apr 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Global Economic Expansion And The Prevalence Of Militarized Interstate Disputes, Lucas Hahn Apr 2016

Global Economic Expansion And The Prevalence Of Militarized Interstate Disputes, Lucas Hahn

Honors Projects in Economics

Over the past several decades the entire world has experienced both the positive and negative effects of globalization. The question that this report will address is whether or not global economic expansion has led to a decline in the prevalence of militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) and what factors influence the prevalence of MIDs. This report will take an in-depth look at Thomas Friedman’s “Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention”. It also includes a quantitative analysis in which regression techniques were used to see how different economic factors influence the prevalence of MIDs, while also introducing a previously unused independent variable …


Does Academic Performance Predict Workplace Productivity?, Jodie-Gaye Hunter Apr 2016

Does Academic Performance Predict Workplace Productivity?, Jodie-Gaye Hunter

Honors Projects in Economics

This research examines if college GPA affects productivity and compensation in the workplace. It uses data collected from a survey of approximately 23,000 Bryant University graduates in different stages of their career. About 10 percent of the alumni surveyed completed the survey. The econometric model used in this study allows estimating the effect of GPA on income after controlling for various demographic and socioeconomic variables, including education, major, occupation, gender, among others. The empirical work provides evidence that GPA has a positive and statistically significant impact on workplace productivity for females, but GPA seems to be a weaker predictor of …


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- March 2016, Leonard Lardaro Mar 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- March 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- February 2016, Leonard Lardaro Feb 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- February 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- January 2016, Leonard Lardaro Jan 2016

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- January 2016, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Responses To Change In The Global Political Economy Of Innovation – The Role Of Sub-National States In Industrial Transition, Dan Herman Jan 2016

Responses To Change In The Global Political Economy Of Innovation – The Role Of Sub-National States In Industrial Transition, Dan Herman

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This dissertation seeks to explore how sub-national levels of the state promote the development of new industrial sectors. To do so this dissertation builds on a series of theoretical perspectives on the role of the state in the economy and develops a unique view of how sub-national states coalesce and contrast within these perspectives. It does so through a series of empirical case studies focused on sub-national jurisdictions in North America that highlight diverse varieties of state actions that contribute, if not lead, industrial transitions and the development of new innovation-oriented industrial sectors. In so doing, the dissertation presents a …


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2015, Leonard Lardaro Dec 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2015, Leonard Lardaro Nov 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2015, Leonard Lardaro Oct 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2015, Leonard Lardaro Sep 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2015, Leonard Lardaro Aug 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2015, Leonard Lardaro Jul 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- June 2015, Leonard Lardaro Jun 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- June 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2015, Leonard Lardaro May 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2015, Leonard Lardaro Apr 2015

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2015, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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The Rhetoric Of Ben Bernanke: A Grounded Theory Approach, Andrew Langellier Apr 2015

The Rhetoric Of Ben Bernanke: A Grounded Theory Approach, Andrew Langellier

Honors Projects in Communication

The objective of this Capstone project is to determine how Ben Bernanke used rhetoric during his tenure as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 to 2013. The scope is limited to testimony delivered as opening statements to the Federal Reserve’s semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to Congress and his prepared testimony during his Senate confirmation hearing. The research will attempt determine how Bernanke used rhetoric while testifying before congress, in particular how that rhetoric changes over the course of his tenure. While there is a substantial amount of research on the use of the …


Financial Literacy And College Students: An Exploration Of College Students’ Attitudes, Behaviors, Influences And Preparedness For Financial Decisions After Graduation, Kerry Quirk Apr 2015

Financial Literacy And College Students: An Exploration Of College Students’ Attitudes, Behaviors, Influences And Preparedness For Financial Decisions After Graduation, Kerry Quirk

Honors Projects in Finance

Financial literacy is the level of understanding an individual has for different financial topics, including but not limited to, investment vehicles, retirement accounts, saving, budgeting, credit and taxes, and the use of such knowledge to change one’s financial behavior to create a more positive financial position for the future. Past research has shown that college students consistently have low levels of financial literacy. They also lack knowledgeable influences on their financial education. Because many college students will soon enter the workforce after graduation and will be responsible for managing their own salary, retirement accounts and investment options, they can be …


The Discreet Trader, Seth Wing Apr 2015

The Discreet Trader, Seth Wing

Honors Projects in Finance

This paper examines insider trading, specifically trades by corporate insiders around quarterly earnings announcements. Announcements were broken up into three categories: earnings above analyst expectations, earnings below expectations, and earnings in line with expectations. Trade data was collected from the thirty companies of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 2012-’13. The trades were sorted by purchases and sales by date and analyzed with the earnings report of which the trades were made. Only trades in the interval from twenty days before the announcement date to twenty days after the announcement date were considered. The prediction was that corporate insiders would …


Innovation And Institutional Quality On Economic Growth In Asia, Nguyen Tran-Nguyen Apr 2015

Innovation And Institutional Quality On Economic Growth In Asia, Nguyen Tran-Nguyen

Honors Projects in Economics

When looking at the different effects of institutional quality on economic development, namely control of corruption, there are two different hypotheses that explain such effects. One is the “grease the wheel” hypothesis, which predicts that corruption is beneficial for growth, and the other one is the “sand the wheel” hypothesis, which says the opposite. Corruption is normally blamed for the slow economic growths in some countries, but some Asian countries’ exponential growths have proven the “grease the wheel” hypothesis otherwise. The “Asian experience”1 phenomenon occurs when corruption does not seem to hamper business activities in some Asian countries. This research …