Poster Archive
Faculty Sponsor: Ryuichiro Izumi Live Poster Session: https://wesleyan.zoom.us/my/pwatcharapong Pat (Putt) Watcharapong Pat is a rising senior (’25) from Bangkok, Thailand. He is majoring in Economics and works as a Microeconomics teaching assistant. Outside of Economics, he studies Art Studio and is active in Asian identity groups as President of the Thai Student Association and Cultural … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Ryuichiro Izumi Aaron Leong Aaron is a rising senior from Malaysia studying economics and applied data science. Outside of academics, he enjoys backpacking, learning new languages, and reading science fiction books. After graduation, he would like to pursue further studies in economics, and be involved in economic research and/or policymaking. Abstract: While theoretical … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Xiaoxue Zhao Ruihan Sun Ruihan Sun is a rising senior (’25) from Chongqing, China, majoring in Mathematics and Economics at Wesleyan. Outside of her classes, she likes to play Animal Crossing, read books, enjoy music, and take photographs. Looking ahead, Ruihan hopes to leverage her mathematical skills in finance and become a quantitative … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Prof. David J. Kuenzel Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Tristan Dwiputra Loa Tristan Loa is a rising senior from Jakarta, Indonesia, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Physics. Some non-academic interests over the summer include rock climbing, soccer, and cooking. Throughout the semester, he works in IMS as a classroom technician … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Abigail Hornstein Mia Kurta Mia Kurta is a rising junior from Port Washington, New York. She attended Schreiber High School and, at Wesleyan, is double majoring in Economics and Physics with a minor in Informatics and Modeling. In her spare time, she enjoys teaching physics, dancing, and music. Abstract: The study of foreign … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Xiaoxue Zhao Flora (Panzhi) Gu Flora Gu is a rising senior (’24) from Shanghai and a graduate of the Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy. She majors in Economics and History while pursuing a Data Analysis minor. She is an active member of the Chinese music ensemble at Wesleyan and enjoys adapting and performing … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Abigail Hornstein Kevin Pang Kevin Pang is a senior(’24) from China double majoring in Economics and Mathematics. In his his free time, Kevin enjoys reading, playing card games, and has recently got into chess. He also likes playing ping pong and is on the Wesleyan table tennis team. Abstract: Serial entrepreneurs, … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Balazs Zelity Abstract: Economists have hypothesized that there is a relationship between seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and consumer feelings about the economy, often measured indirectly through stock market performance. However, not much research has been done on the relationship between SAD and the more direct measure of consumer confidence. The purpose of this … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Balazs Zelity Abstract: When an investor invests in another economy, they chose whether to repatriate their profit to their origin country or reinvest it in a host country. The reinvestment rate is the ratio of of the reinvestment to the total amount of the reinvestment and the repatriation. This project aims to … Read more
Faculty Sponsor: Professor Grossman, Economics Department Abstract: The stock market volatility can be measured by the implied volatility of options. To analyze the British stock market volatility before and after the NYSE stock market crash in 1929, we looked into the options price data across different sectors in the British stock market and calculated the … Read more