Student Awards

Honors in Economics Since CMC Founding (PDF)

Outstanding Senior Thesis

• 2006: Daniel Yavorsky, "Deal or no Deal: Determinants of Risk Aversion"
• 2005: Megan Rosseter, "The Effects of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 On The Labor Supply Of Wealthy Married Women"
• 2004: Daniel Amtmann, "A New Approach to the Economics of Suicide: Can Attitudes Serve as Accurate Proxies?" and Andrew Traba, "The Effect of Managerial Compensation on Incentive Alignment Throughout the Banking Industry"
• 2003: Gavin Teo, "Glass Steagalls Demise — Universal Banking and Wealth Creation"
• 2002: Keith Mendes, "Incentive effects: An Econometric Test of Tournament Theory Using the Nascar Winston Cup Series"
• 2001: Richard Hossfeld, "Politico-Economic Interaction in the United States, 1950-2000"
• 2000: Rebecca Lapin, "From Government Reliance to Nonprofit Reliance: The Effects of Changes in Welfare on Nonprofit Organizations"

Best Overall Student

• 2003: Brian Rossing
• 2002: John O'Brien
• 2001: Thomas Robertson
• 2000: Leanne Knight

Outstanding Achievement in Quantitative Economics

• 2006: Paul L. Brooks
• 2005: Eva Nazarewicz
• 2004: Randy Moser and Greg Arquette
• 2003: Alisa Decker
• 2002: Patrick Martinell
• 2001: Thomas Robertson
• 2000: Rebecca Lapin

Outstanding Statistics Project

• 2005: Fan Du, Sharmila Kumar, and Ilona Moizesch
• 2004: Katie Burgess, Lukas Hamada, and Anneke Jong
• 2003: Lucy Divis, Paul Ireland, and Elliott Lee
• 2002: Dan Carroll, David Mahler, Chuck Moravec
• 2001: Gregory Beaumont, Emily Kochanowicz, Gavin Teo
• 2000: Joanna Castro, Richard Hossfeld, Rohan Ranjaraj

Outstanding Senior

• 2006: Mandi Christine Bohn
• 2005: Daniel Robert Cahir
• 2004: Gregory Arquette and Christina Williams

Outstanding Junior

• 2006: Elizabeth Marie Schultz, Christian Zsolt Urban, and Paul Edward Van Deventer
• 2005: Mandi Christine Bohn
• 2004: Dan Cahir
• 2003: Gregory Arquette and Christina Williams
• 2002: David Guintini
• 2001: Nicholas Janof, David Mahler, John O'Brien, Daniel O'Neill
• 2000: Thomas Robertson

Outstanding Sophomore

• 2006: Raymond Kurtis Sheline, Zizheng Wang, and Blake Alexander Zacharias
• 2005: Paul Van Deventer, Christian Urban, and Elizabeth Schultz
• 2004: Mandi Bohn, Paul Brooks, and Justin Hance
• 2003: Dan Cahir
• 2002: Gregory Arquette, Christina Williams, Dustin Beckett
• 2001: David Guintini
• 2000: Daniel O’Neill, Nicholas Janof

Robert A. Day Venture Capital Award

• 2002: David Byer, David Mahler, Jeffrey Parks
• 2001: Holly Escheverria, Tyson A. Moler, Daniel P. O'Neill, John B. Whitledge