Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Something New in Medical Residency Matching Markets
Published 2023-01-25Worldwide medical residency markets commonly employ variants of the two-sided central clearinghouse designed by Roth and Peranson in 1999. In the NSW physiotherapy residency matching market, a one-sided and computationally ...Thesis -
Can we make investors smarter using a nudge? Maybe, but we can’t prove it using the most common experimental disposition effect environment.
Published 2023-01-18Investors have been shown to behave in a way that reduces their earnings by being over hesitant to sell stocks that have decreased in price and over eager to sell stocks that have increased in price, exhibiting what is ...Thesis -
How does household consumption respond to housing price changes in China?
Published 2022-12-09How house price changes impact household consumption is a long-lasting debate in macroeconomics. Previous literature mainly analyses this relationship with macro-level data, while this thesis aims to identify the relationship ...Thesis -
Keynes’s economics and the question of public debt
Published 2012-01-04The Global Financial Crisis generated renewed interest in the relevance of John Maynard Keynes’s economic policy proposals, particularly those related to budget deficits, public debt and government expenditure. ‘Keynesian’ ...Thesis, Honours -
More lottery tickets than milk and no money in the bank
Published 2011-12-07A significant proportion of US households have insufficient savings to cope with even moderate consumption shocks that can result in substantial externalities. At the same time, the most financially fragile households have ...Thesis, Honours