Sidney Hoos Award for Best Second Year Econometrics Paper

To promote econometrics study among graduate students, the department holds a Best Second Year Econometric Project Competition. Sidney Hoos Award is given to the best paper. In their second year, students are required to conduct an empirical project in consultation with a faculty advisor. This project draws on material learned in ARE 212 and ARE 213 to address a question of substantial economic interest. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of an interesting research question; formulation of a consistent economic model; and on building strong connections between the predictions generated by theory and tested using the tools of econometrics. Resulting papers are presented in one or more seminars, and are evaluated, in part, by the student's peers. (Please see the Empirical Project Web-Page for more details.)

List of previous recipients:

Jiangfeng Zhang , May 1999, Regulation of Stock Externalities With Correlated Costs, Abstract , Paper (This version: January 2003) .

Wolfram Schlenker , May 2000, Estimating the Potential Cost from Global Climate Change on ... Abstract , Paper (Original version. Revised version available from author upon request).

Kathy Baylis , May 2001, Rent-Seeking and the Canadian Dairy Industry, Abstract, Paper (Original version. Revised version available from author upon request).

Jennifer Alix , May 2002, Deforestation in the Commons: An Institutional Approach, Abstract , Paper (Original Project version. Revision in Progress).

Sarah Baird, May 2003, Modeling Technology Adoption Decisions: An Analysis of ..., Abstract , Paper (Original Project version).

Aaron Swoboda, May 2004, Regulation and The Shadow Price of Housing: A Test of the Neo-classical.., Abstract , Paper (Original Project version).

Jen Brown, May 2005, How much is a dollar worth? Arbitrage on eBay and Yahoo , Abstract , Paper (Original Project version).

Shanthi Nataraj, Dec 2006, Residential Water Demand, Estimating Price Elasticity Under an Increasing Block Pricing System , Paper (Original Project version).

Sarah Dobson, Oct 2007, From Acid Dip to Thriving Waters The Impact of Emissions Reductions on Lake Recovery , Paper (Original Project version), Abstract .

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