MA Research Projects
| Month | Title |
Candidate |
|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Economics of Traditional Capture Sampling vs eDNA Fish Sampling | Chioma Nwanna |
| August 2022 | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on construction workers in Canada | Yan Yuan |
| August 2022 | Canadian Housing Affordability: Examining Fundamental Factors Affect-ing Households | Matthew Langlois |
| August 2022 | Gender Differences in Precarious Jobs Pre, During and Post Covid | Chloe (Yu) Hua |
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August 2021 |
Do government intervention and foreign aid reduce shrinking? Research focused on negative growth |
Zhibo Ye (Advisor: K. Annen) |
| August 2021 | Carbon Emissions and Corporate Profitability in Canada | Shehani Wanniarachchi (Advisor: I. Tsiakas) |
| August 2021 | Employment and Mental Health Status: The Impact of the COVID Labor Market on Youth and Older Workers in Canada | Arjanny Villasis (Advisor: L. Grogan) |
| August 2021 | Spot Crude Oil Threshold CAPM Model | Chenyi Suo (Advisor: Y. Sun) |
| August 2021 | The Impact of the Ebola Epidemic on Teenage Births in Guinea | Olaitan Ogunnote (Advisor: L. Grogan) |
| August 2020 | Predictability of the Buffett Yardstick Ratio | Máté Bors (Advisor: Y. Sun) |
| August 2019 | CVS Health and Danaher Security Analysis | Guanghong Ou (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2019 | Socioeconomic factors and their relationship to first world war survival rates | Nico Meffe (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| August 2019 | Cryptocurrency Price Flows with Artificial Neural Networks | Sami Abdurahman (Advisor: N. Gradojevic) |
| August 2019 | The Dynamics of Occupational Structure of Chinese Workforce in Canada, 1881-1921 | Weiguan Wang (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| August 2019 | The impact of rankings information on improving performance | Xiaohan Yu (Advisor: B. Cadsby) |
| August 2018 | Increasing Productivity Using Performance Ranking Information | Altanchimeg Algaa (Advisor: B. Cadsby) |
| August 2018 | Alternative Demographic Ratio Definitions and their Implications for Stock Valuations | Jordan Smith (Advisor: A. Maynard) |
| August 2018 | Ownership Concentration, Common Risk Factors, & Stock Returns | Michael Di Carlo (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2018 | Employment Income Disparities for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada from 2001‐2011 by Education, Field of Study, and Sexual Identity |
Mark Grant (Advisor: M. Plesca) |
| August 2018 | ‘Life Expectancy and GDP in China: A Time Series' | Sishi Xu (Advisor: T. Stengos) |
| August 2018 | Is there a bubble in Beijing's Housing Market? | Xiaohe Ma (Advisor: M. Li) |
| August 2018 | A Stock Selection Framework Based on Deep Stacked Autoencoder | Yue Hu (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2018 | China’s Monthly Capital Flight over 2015‐2017 | Yili Zhang (Advisor: M. Li) |
| July 2018 | Does Policy Dependent Aid Impact The World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment Rating? | Alexander Meek (Advisor: K. Annen) |
| June 2018 |
Forecasting Bitcoin Returns with Simple Technical Indicators and Neural Networks |
Robert Adcock (Advisor: N. Gradojevic) |
| December 2017 | How Mines Affect China's Development Finance in Africa |
Lihui Liu |
| December 2017 | The Impacts of Female Education and Life Expectancy on Economic Growth in the Far East Countries: A panel Data Analysis |
Han Zhang |
| August 2017 | Panel Data Model with Fixed Effects: A comparative Study | Yougxu Yao (Advisor: Y. Sun) |
| August 2017 | Cigarette Money | Jianwei Yang (Advisor: M. Li) |
| August 2017 | Security Analysis- Transcontinental Inc. | Zhuoyan Xie (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2017 | A study on China's Shadow Banking Development | Ziwei Sun (Advisor: M. Li) |
| August 2017 | An Analysis of Canada’s Climate Change Mitigation Policies with a focus on Ontario’s Cap and Trade System and the Environmental and Economic Outcomes | Megan Stansfield (Advisor: T. Genc) |
| August 2017 | Universal Corporation Security Analysis Report | Miguel Rosa (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2017 | FDI inflows in the new century and their effect on trade in selected East and Southern African countries | Davies Nyachieng’a (Advisor: M. Li, D. Prescott) |
| August 2017 | Ensign Energy Inc. Security Analysis |
Kyle MacKenzie |
| August 2017 | Simultaneous Proposal Algorithm and Signaling Model in Two-sided Matching Market | Yibin Li (Advisor: A. Sadanand) |
| August 2017 | A Qualitative Analysis of Polaris Industries Inc | Charles Kovacs (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2017 | The sunk cost fallacy in the NBA: evidence using player salary and playing time | Alexander Hinton (Advisor: Y. Sun) |
| August 2017 | US natural gas market reacts to shocks in the crude oil market | De Gi (Advisor: T. Genc) |
| August 2017 | Corby Spirits and Wine Limited Case Analysis | Caijun Fu (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2017 | Empirical Evidence of Housing Bubbles in the Ontario Housing Market |
Weiguang Chen |
| August 2017 | Stock analysis Report - RGC Resources (RGCO) | Kexin Chen (Advisor: F. Tapon) |
| August 2017 | Empirics of emerging markets international reserves holding under high capital mobility, commodity trade shocks and short‐term external debt |
Theo Braimah Awanzam |
| July 2017 | Aggregate market expectations of the Greek crisis | Eleonora Papanastasiou (Advisor: N. Gradojevic, T. Stengos) |
| May 2017 | Companies' market value drivers An analysis of the Dow Jones components: 1999‐2016 |
Davide Orlandini (Advisor: F. Tapon, Y. Sun) |
| August 2016 | The role of robust skewness and kurtosis in portfolio allocation between US and World stock market | Mengke Luo (Advisor: A.Maynard) |
| August 2016 | Factors in Affecting Market Fundamentals of Short-run Canadian Natural Gas Export Price | Linxiao Huang (Advisor: T.Genc) |
| August 2016 | Crude oil price and Macroeconomic relationship: A Factor Augmented Vector Error Correction Approach. | Richard Darko (Advisor: T.Genc) |
| August 2016 | The Impacts of Female Education and Total Life Expectancy on Economic Growth in the Middle East and North Africa: A Panel Data Analysis |
Nazlican Sahan (Advisor: T.Stengos) |
| August 2016 | Predictive Analytics: A Study of Vehicle Pricing | Justin Kowalczyk (Advisor: R.Kirkegaard) |
| July 2016 | Ownership Concentration, Common Risk Factors, & Stock Returns | Stephen Elliot (Advisor: F.Tapon, A.Maynard) |
| July 2016 | International Investment: A Financial Literature Survey |
Erica Alvarez |
| July 2016 | Aid Effectiveness on Growth: Does the Measurement of Aid Really Matter? | Shawana Khan (Advisor: K.Annen) |
| June 2016 | A Cross Country Analysis on Top Income Inequality | Kyel Governor (Advisor:K.Annen) |
| June 2015 | The Golden Period of Pakistan: A Time-Differentiated Decompositional Growth Analysis of the First Three Five-Year Centralized Economic Plans | Asad Ejaz Butt (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| August 2014 | Credit Easing policy's impact on Chinese real estate market | Yi Zhang (Advisor: Y.Sun) |
| August 2014 | The Solar Photovoltaic Module Industry in Energy Market | Xin Shi (Advisor: T.Genc) |
| August 2014 | The effect of depreciation of Canadian dollars on Canadian trade ratio | Xida Ouyang (Advisors: M.Li, A.Maynard) |
| August 2014 | Are we enslaving or facilitating women empowerment? : A Bangladesh Case | Takmila Mysha (Advisor: Y.Sun) |
| August 2014 | The Impact of Bed Bugs on Apartment Rents in the United States | Nicholas Manuel |
| August 2014 | Evaluating the environmental effectiveness and cost-efficiency of water quality trading in the South Nation watershed, Ontario, Canada | Richard McNeil (Advisor: R.McKitrick) |
| August 2014 | Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in China | Mi Tang (Advisor: T.Genc) |
| August 2014 | Foreign aid effectiveness in the global arena and South Asia | Mohammad Kabir (Advisors: Y.Sun, K.Annen) |
| August 2014 | The Impact of the Great Recession on Marginal Propensity to Consume: An Empirical Study from the U.S. Households | Mengqi Zhan (Advisor: Y.Sun) |
| August 2014 | Influence of Wind Power on Hourly Electricity Prices and Noise Levels for Ontario, Canada | Jianyu Zhang (Advisor: T.Genc) |
| August 2014 | The Performance of Canadian Equity Funds Constructed with Fundamental Weights | Jason Di Reto (Advisor: F.Tapon) |
| July 2014 | The Equity Premium and Business Cycles: A Defense of Predictability | Ranella Billy (Advisors: I.Tsiakas, Y.Sun) |
| July 2014 | Combining Economic Fundamentals to Predict Exchange Rates | Brant Munro (Advisors: I.Tsiakas, A.Maynard) |
| March 2014 | Do high-income countries generate electricity more cleanly? | Kyle Leary (Advisor: D.Prescott) |
| September 2013 | What Drives Canadian Housing Price in the Long Run? | Wenhao Lu (Advisors: D.Prescott, M.Li) |
| August 2013 | A Study on 2012-13 Cypriot Financial Crisis and Modeling the Effects of Deposit Insurance on Banking Crises | Ziheng Li (Advisors: M.Li, A.Sadanand) |
| August 2013 | Take-over Bids: Theory, Reality and the Free-Rider Problem | Da Lin (Advisor: B.Cadsby) |
| August 2013 | The effect on insurance and incentives of government relief for natural disasters | Xiaolei Ma (Advisor: Y.Sun) |
| August 2013 | The difference of labour force participation probability between Canadian immigrants and natives | Pu Ren (Advisors: Y.Sun, M.Plesca) |
| August 2013 | Exchange Rate Predictability Using Combined Forecasts | Kwanyong Kim (Advisor: I.Tsiakas) |
| August 2013 | The effects of new cooperative medical scheme on rural residents’ insurance choice in China | Haibin Zhang (Advisors: Y.Sun, B.Ferguson) |
| August 2013 | The Impact of Contract Structure and Incentives on Player Performance in the National Hockey League: A Fixed Effects Analysis | Franz Henke (Advisors: M.Plesca, B.Cadsby) |
| August 2013 | End-of-the-month effect of Canadian equity and potential window dressing manipulations by fund managers | Denis Varshavsky (Advisors: A.Maynard, V.Alexeev) |
| July 2013 | The Causal Dynamics Between Energy Consumption and GDP: An Overview of 16 OECD Countries Using Panel and Time Series Data | Ben LeFort (Advisor: R.McKitrick) |
| June 2013 | Explaining Youth Arrests: An Economic and Sociological Approach | Adrian Rhohit Dass (Advisor: T.Stengos) |
| January 2013 | Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Location Effects on EQAO Test Results in Ontario | Mary Devlin (Advisor: K.Annen) |
| October 2012 | Forecasting Exchange Rate Returns in Emerging Economies: The BRICS | Jesse Barke Doka (Advisors: I. Tsiakas, A. Maynard) |
| August 2012 | The Effects of Internet Saturation on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries (Abstract) | Neil Verkade (Advisor: A. Maynard) |
| August 2012 | The Impact of Oil Price Shocks on the Canadian Provincial Unemployment (Abstract) | Shruti Maken (Advisor: A. Maynard) |
| August 2012 | The Cost of Wind Power in Ontario: A look at the competitive feasibility of wind generated electricity and the current FIT program (Abstract) | Jefferson Harding (Advisor: T. Genc) |
| August 2012 | Modeling Alternative Energy Investment (Abstract) | Eric Nguyen (Advisor: A. Maynard) |
| August 2012 | Solar Energy in Ontario: The cost of replacing coal and the benefits from FIT rates (Abstract) | Kavita Valarmathi (Advisor: T. Genc) |
| August 2012 | The Relationship between Health, Wealth, and Caste in India: A Non-Linear Investigation (Abstract) | Sarah Salih (Advisor: A. Maynard) |
| August 2012 | The Weighting Method of Financial Stress Index Matters: An Empirical Analysis (Abstract) | Dan (Sabrina) Gong (Advisor: Y. Sun) |
| July 2012 | The Composition of Government Spending and Growth (Abstract) | Amit Summan (Advisor: K. Annen) |
| June 2012 | The Kuznets Hypothesis: A sensitivity analysis using multiple regression specifications (Abstract) | Eric Lindsay (Advisor: T. Stengos) |
| December 2011 | Natural Resources, Education and Economic Growth | Sepideh Ghafouri (Advisor: A. Maynard) |
| December 2011 | Predicting Market Power in the Ontario Wholesale Electricity Market | Nahal Azimi (Advisor: T. Genc) |
| September 2011 | Effects of Vocational Training on Wage Income for Villagers: the Evidence from Rural China | Haigang Wang (Advisor: L. Grogan) |
| August 2011 | Generation Length of Hardware in Multi-Sided Markets with Indirect Network Effects | Josh Hoy (Advisor: H. Thille) |
| August 2011 | A Dynamic Model of Equilibrium Selection in Signaling Markets with Finite Memory | Greg Galay (Advisor: R. Kirkegaard) |
| August 2011 | Is China near the great wall? Economic slowdowns and discussion on China | Tingting Jiang (Advisor: L. Cellarier) |
| August 2011 | Family Businesses and Firms in Canada | Bowen Wang (Advisor: B. Cadsby) |
| August 2011 | The Foreign Exchange Carry Trade for Canadian Investors | Tian Feng (Advisor: I. Tsiakas) |
| July 2011 | Do people respond to smog alerts? Evidence from changes in asthma-related hospital admissions before and after the introduction of smog alerts | Matthew Pot (Advisor: R. McKitrick) |
| July 2011 | The Lender of Last Resort, Moral Hazard and Capital Requirements in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis | Xiao Liang (Advisor: M. Li) |
| July 2011 | The Balassa-Samuelson Effect in China and its Implications for China’s Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate | Yu Chen (Advisor: M. Li) |
| July 2011 | Energy Switching in a Small Open Economy: An Application to Ontario Road Energy Demand | Kevin Hendriks (Advisor: H. Thille) |
| June 2011 | The Increase in Female Enrolment and Graduation from University: Trends and Causes | Nicole Broderick (Advisor: M. Plesca) |
| June 2011 | Examination and sensitivity analysis of the reverse regression approach to determining discrimination | Ioannis Sivenas (Advisor: T. Stengos) |
| June 2011 | Price Regime Effects on Residential Water Demand in Canada | James Capotosto (Advisor: J. Livernois) |
| June 2011 | Factors Affecting the Rate of Obesity on Canada and the USA – Evidence from the Joint Canada USA Health Survey | Rahela Dina (Advisor: B. Ferguson) |
| October 2010 | Balancing Benefits and Employment Incentives for Those With Disabilities | Kristopher Kuysten (Advisor: M. Hoy) |
| September 2010 | Investigating Electoral Reform in Canada: The Option of Mixed-Member Proportionality | Kyle Grant (Advisor: J. Goertz) |
| August 2010 | Migrants' Remittances and Education: Evidence from Albania | Drew Pihlainen (Advisor: L. Grogan) |
| August 2010 | An Investigation of the Public-Sector Pension Differential and Retirement Expectations in Europe | Sara Hoare (Advisor: D. Prescott) |
| August 2010 | Short Term Exchange Rate Volatility: Purchasing Power Parity, Forecasting, and Interest Rate Differentials | Tyler Lawson (Advisor: Y. Sun) |
| August 2010 | Beyond Joint Liability Lending: Reexamining the Impact of Contract Type on Repayment Rates in Latin American Microfinance | Mallory Baxter (Advisor: K. Annen) |
| August 2010 | Examining the Gender Wage Gap Across Canada: An Empirical Approach | Cortney Simkins (Advisor: M. Plesca) |
| September 2009 | Stock Market Overreaction and Complacent Management: How to Reconcile Reversal Patterns in Stock Returns and Firm Life Cycles | Yi "Louie" Lu (Advisors: F. Tapon, A. Maynard) |
| August 2009 | Linear Invalidity of the "Mincer Equation" in the Canadian Labor Market | Jiayuan "Jennifer" Teng (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| August 2009 | Labor Market Outcomes and the Temporary Help Agencies in the United States | Fraser Summerfield (Advisors: L. Grogan, M. Plesca, T. Stengos) |
| August 2009 | On the Empirical Effect of Human Capital on Economic Growth | Diana Alessandrini (Advisors: T. Stengos, A. Maynard) |
| August 2009 | The Computer Wage Premium in Canada in 1994 and 2000 | Xiaoxiao "Sissi" Han (Advisors: M. Pesca, L. Grogan) |
| August 2009 | Analysis of the Determinants and Decision of Suicide | Robert Bright (Advisors: L. Cellarier, S. Kosempel) |
| August 2009 | Stock Return Predictability: A Comparison of Two Seemingly Similar Markets | Paul Lirette (Advisors: A. Maynard, K. Inwood) |
| July 2009 | C02 Emissions During Business Cycles | Timothy Scholz (Advisors: R. McKitrick, A. Maynard) |
| April 2009 | Smoking, BMI and Demand for Medical Care | Alfia Karimova (Advisors: B. Ferguson, M. Plesca) |
| December 2008 | The Analysis of Efficient Foreign Exchange Market in China | Xi Susan Chen (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| December 2008 | The Cost of Compliance on Offshore Financial Centers | Lynette Okado (Advisors: P. Martin, M. Plesca) |
| October 2008 | Factor Price Adjustments With Wage Rigidity: Implications for the Canadian Economy | Brad Norwood (Advisors: P. Martin, C. Southey) |
| September 2008 | A Model of Price Spikes in Two Markets and an Analysis of the Risks of Expanded Trade Between Them | Peter Steele-Mosey (Advisors: A. Maynard, H. Thille) |
| August 2008 | Climate Variations, Extreme Weather and the Market Value of Insurance Firms | Robert Keyes (Advisors: R. McKitrick, M. Hoy) |
| August 2008 | An Alternative Approach to Private Sector Crude Oil Forecasting for Explaining the Dynamics of Exploration in Canada | Scott Legree (Advisors: H. Thille, A. Maynard) |
| August 2008 | The Impact of Firm and Industry Specific Risk on Outside Director Contracts | Craig Ferguson (Advisors: M. Hoy, J.A. Amegashie) |
| August 2008 | Income Contingent Repayment Schemes and the Canadian Student Loans Program | Alexander Jokic (Advisors: M. Hoy, B. Ferguson) |
| August 2008 | Field of Study and Its Effect on the Youth Job Market | Dan Embury (Advisors: M. Plesca, M. Hoy) |
| August 2008 | An Analysis of the 2004-05 NHL Lockout: Have the Objectives Been Accomplished and Is There Now League Wide Collusion? | Kevin Silber (Advisors: D. Prescott, J.A. Amegashie) |
| August 2008 | International Tourism Demand for Costa Rica | Gabriela Lacayo (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| August 2008 | Real GDP Per Capita Cointegration Among the ASEAN5. Is There a Case for a Common Regional Currency? | Sui Lay Tan (Advisors: B. Ferguson, A. Maynard) |
| July 2008 | Price Forecasting in Day-Ahead Ontario Electricity Market (OEM) | Yuan Tracey Tian (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| July 2008 | Does FDI Foster Economic Growth? Dynamic Panel Data GMM Estimators | Joniada Milla (Advisors: T. Stengos, A. Maynard) |
| May 2008 | New Vehicle Sales in Ontario as Influenced by Changes in Retail Regular Unleaded Gasoline Prices | Michael Akyaw (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| April 2008 | Diversification Benefits and EMU Equity Market Integration: An Empirical Study of iShares MSCI Index Funds of European Countries | Yuting Han (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| November 2007 | Monitoring Mobile Telecommunication's Effect on Africa's Growth | Will Santo (Advisors: T. Stengos, L. Cellarier) |
| November 2007 | FDI and Growth: A Robustness Analysis | Jingjing Du (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| October 2007 | Are Corporate Researchers Morally Corrupt? | Kathleen Rodenburg (Advisors: M. Hoy, J.A. Amegashie) |
| August 2007 | Probit Analysis of Censored Data: A Fuzzy Set Approach | Li Lily Li (Advisors: D. Prescott, T. Stengos) |
| August 2007 | Minimum Wage Increases: Help or Harm? Analysis on Minimum Wage Increases and the Effects on Low Income Families in Canada | Amanda Jarvis (Advisors: M. Plesca, P. Martin) |
| August 2007 | The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Canadian Labour Market | Nan Wang (Advisors: M. Plesca, P. Martin) |
| August 2007 | Oil Prices and the Stock Market: A Study on the Effects of OPEC Price Shocks on GCC Countries Stock Market and Testing EMH in the Oil Market | Ahmed Chilmeran (Advisors: T. Stengos, Y. Sun) |
| August 2007 | The Specification Analysis of Cross-Country Growth Regressions: Institutions and Augmented Solow Model Approach | Mehmet Pinar (Advisors: T. Stengos, K. Inwood) |
| August 2007 | The Impact of FDI on Growth | Spyridon Boikos (Advisors: T. Stengos, L. Cellarier) |
| August 2007 | Income Distribution Among Provinces in Canada 1973-1997 | Zhi Leon Li (Advisors: T. Stengos, M. Hoy) |
| April 2007 | International Diversification: A Risk-Return Analysis of International Portfolios (1996-2005) | Ying Yang (Advisors: F. Tapon, Y. Sun) |
| April 2007 | Confucian Values and Attitudes Toward Time Discounting and Financial Risk | Yan Zhou (Advisors: C.B. Cadsby, K. Annen) |
| January 2007 | An Anthropometric Study of the Standard of Living and Degree of Marginality in Ontario and Quebec, 1870-1900 | James Yool (Advisors: K. Inwood, J. Cranfield) |
| September 2006 | Are Redistributive Land Reforms Feasible? Guatemala as a Case Study | Christopher Gregory (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| August 2004 | Regional Effects of the Wheat Boom | Tracy Dawson (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| April 2004 | Farm Size, Land Productivity and Factor Utilization: The Economic Case for Guatemalan Land Reform in 1950 |
Dylan Ramshaw (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| December 2000 |
A Comparison of Manufacturing Productivity in Canada and the US in the Late 19th Century |
Leonardo Bozza (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| 1997 | Patterns of Property Ownership by the Women of Guelph, 1871 vs 1891 |
Susan Ingram (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| 1997 | The Origins of Regional Development in Atlantic Canada | Patricia Embleton (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| September 1995 | Estimates of Labour Force Participation in South Wellington, 1871 | Alex Goddard (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| December 1993 | Beer and Spirits in Nineteenth Century Ontario: What We Know and What We Don’t Know | Christopher French (Advisor: K. Inwood) |
| 1990 | Household Behaviour and the Allocation of Time: The Case of Cloth Production on Ontario Farms in 1860 | Anastasia Lintner (Advisor: K. Inwood) |