Economics

British Stock Market Volatility: Before and After the 1929 NYSE Stock Market Crash

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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

Trends in African-American Time Use and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Faculty Sponsor: Karl David Boulware Abstract: The impacts of COVID 19 have disproportionately affected people of colour, especially African Americans. My project gives a broader view on the time use of the people most disrupted during the height of the pandemic. By using 2020 microdata files from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) conducted by … Read more