Modern statistical analysis has allowed for teams to more accurately measure Major League Baseball player performance. However, other than tracing wins there are few ways[...]

The opportunity to write both a Capstone and a Thesis has provided me a unique opportunity to supplement what I’ve learned and what I hope to achieve in each discipline w[...]

This paper investigates whether the common practice of hedging the cost of fuel provides any economic benefits to participating airlines. Our study looks at 7 publically [...]

The United States labor market is undergoing seismic changes as it becomes more intertwined with the global economy. But this reality is not unique to the United States; [...]

What kind of effect does pirated music have on musicians? Illegal music file sharing has become a huge problem over the last 15 years for the music industry. While it cla[...]

One of the biggest challenges of our times is the ageing of the population. In the Western world - especially in Europe - low fertility rates and higher life expectancy h[...]

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region of the world where the number of people living in absolute poverty continues to grow. The region is characterized as having a large [...]

The Eurozone, it appears, is in a constant state of crisis. While other major economic players have mainly recovered from the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the Eurozone a[...]

Among numerous critical issues in Africa, the gender gap in education is the leading tragedy that continues to deteriorate Africa’s economy. Several studies have demonstr[...]

Automatic stabilizers are at the basis of nation’s defense against shocks in their economies. Automatic stabilizers are mostly defined as elements of fiscal policy that m[...]

Hedge fund activism has been attracting more attention nowadays. On the 14th of March, 2016, two democratic senators introduced a bill “that would take aim at activist he[...]

The government of Kenya adopted Free Primary Education (FPE) in January 2003 with a main objective of this program is to provide education to all primary school children [...]