Several economics students presented their research March 9-11 at the Eastern Economics Association’s annual conference in Boston, Mass.
Economics majors Grace Foster, Tyler Zoda, Joe Patterson, Thomas Whyel and Alex Spitz participated in the 12 ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ research sessions sponsored by (IPE).
More than 50 students from 20 colleges and universities throughout the country participated in 3 days of sessions. ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ came from institutions such as Furman, Smith, Gettysburg, the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Stonehill College, St. Lawrence University, Fairfield University, and Austin College.
The 5 Elon papers presented were:
Joseph Patterson, “How Much Congestion is too Much Congestion?” (Mentor: Thomas Tiemann)
Alexander D. Spitz, “The Effect of Gas Prices on Box Office Movie Revenue: As Prices Increase Are Americans Rethinking Forms of Entertainment?” (Mentor: Mark Kurt)
Grace Foster, “The Long Term and Short Term Effect of Single-Sex Education on Extracurricular Participation” (Mentor: Katy Rouse)
Tyler Steven Zoda, “Can T. Boone Pickens Buy Smarter ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ? The Effect of Athletic Spending on Football Championship Subdivision Academic Institutions” (Mentor: Jennifer Platania)
Thomas Scott Whyel, “Demographics Influence on Global Current Account Imbalances in Advanced Economies” (Mentor: Vitaliy Strohush)
The IPE is the leading ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ research journal in economics and is co-edited completely by ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈs at ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ and the University of Mary Washington. Elon has co-edited the journal since 1998. The IPE is indexed in Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Economics & Finance. Steve DeLoach is the faculty advisor to the IPE.