Essex Economics Students' Journal

Autumn 2006

There follow the winning papers selected for the Autumn 2006 issue of the Essex Economics Students' Journal.

Also nominated were term papers by Simon Ambrose (Final year BA Economics, 2006/07), Bob Lutgen (Final year BSc Financial Economics, 2006/07), Kamil Nasiboulline (BSc Financial Economics, 2006), and Elisabeth Paetow (BSc Financial Economics, 2006).

Author(s)	Title
Guillermo Antonio Cardenas Hernandez Final year BSc Financial Economics, 2006/07	The Future of Payments and Central Banking: how the new innovation and regulation of the payment evolves the central bank control (pdf version) EC248 Term Paper [Abstract]
Marek Hanusch BA, Philosophy, Politics and Economics, 2006	Which (existing) EU policies are most likely to promote the convergence of GDP per capita between the regions of the 'new' and the 'old' Europe? Are there any which might (inadvertently) inhibit such convergence? (pdf version) EC329 Term Paper [Abstract]
Philipp König Final year BSc International Economics, 2006/07	Anti-Dumping: Causes, Forms, Effects (pdf version) EC246 Term Paper [Abstract]
Kylie Poole BSc Economics, 2006	What are the distinctive features of behavioural finance as applied to individual investors' decision-making? Hence, discuss the implications of behavioural finance for one topic in asset pricing (e.g. the closed end mutual fund paradox or prices following an Initial Public Offering of shares). (pdf version) EC371 Term Paper [Abstract]
Rebecca Springford BSc Economics, 2006	How far are the destination countries of migrants (asylum-seekers) chosen on the basis of welfare benefits to which such migrants would be entitled on arrival? (pdf version) EC831 Economics Research Project [Abstract]
Ajmel Younis BSc Economics, 2006	Analyse the possible effects of international immigration on wages and employment of local residents. What does the empirical evidence show? (pdf version) EC336 Term Paper [Abstract]

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