The Park Place Economist
Volume 21, Issue 1 (2013)
Prefatory Notes
The Park Place Economist 2013 Cover
Tara Gracer '13
Letter from the Editor
Tara Gracer '13
News and Commentary
Experimental Economics Comes to Life – Prior Appropriations in the Mimbres River Basin
Melissa Seeborg '13
Professor Ilaria Ossella-Durbal’s Sabbatical Adventures
Melissa Seeborg '13
Class of 2013 Senior Biographies
Matt Bishop '14 and Michael Mayberger '14
Articles
Brazil: The Impact of Business Conditions and Hyper-Urbanization on Development in the Country of the Future
Nick Desideri '13, Drake Hill '13, Elizabeth Liubicich '14, and Claudia Petcu '14
The Determinants of Economic Growth in the Transitional Economies of the Former Yugoslavia
Tara Gracer '13
The Obstacles Facing India on Its Journey to Becoming a Developed Country
Tara Gracer '13, Zahra Lalani '13, and Chi Nguyen '15
Assessing Happiness: How Economic Factors Measure Up
Elizabeth Hancock '13
Allocating Scarce Water Resources:Examining if Price Differentials Exist in a Prior Appropriations Setting
Hayley Harroun '13
The Effects of the Great Recession on the Unemployment Rates of Minorities in the United States
Jarrod Hill '13
An Analysis of the Relationship Between Employment and Crime
Deepak Mallubhotla '13
How Do Economic and Political Factors Affect NASA Funding?
Austin Smiley '13
The Comparison of Economic Assimilation Between Indian and Chinese Immigrants in the United States
Zongda Tu '14
Editorial Board
- Editor-in-Chief
- Tara Gracer
- Assistant Editor-in-Chief
- Mark Giannis
- Assistant Technical Editor
- Elizabeth Liubicich
- Treasurer
- Derek Lindgren
- Secretary
- Austin Smiley
- Senior Biographers
- Matt Bishop
- Mike Mayberger
- News Editor
- Melissa Seeborg
- Article Editors
- Ben Aberle
- Jake Bates
- Erik Bergstrom
- Matt Bishop
- Anh Dao
- Emaido Edem
- Taylor Kaldahl
- Jason Kotecki
- Hanlun Lu
- Mike Mayberger
- Aravind Nagavalli
- Claudia Petcu
- Bethany Presutti
- Derek Zongda Tu
- Ben White
- Catherine Wu
- Head Proofreading Editor
- Nikki Castle
- Proofreading Editors
- Erik Bergstrom
- Jason Kotecki
- Kent Larson
- Katelyn Rowley
- Sijia Song
- Derek Zonga Tu
- Catherine Wu ‘15
- Cover Artist
- Tara Gracer
- Advisor
- Dr. Robert M. Leekley