Since 2012, at the end of the spring semester, the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies (GCEPS) has organized an annual Senior Thesis Research Forum to showcase solid undergraduate research in the area of economic policy. Since 2022 the Department of Economics awards the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies Senior Thesis Prize to the five best policy-relevant theses. Four of the 2026 prize winners shared their work for this year’s virtual research forum: Andy Duan, Anne Duong, Jake Simon and Gary Sun.

Andy Duan ’26
Mortgage Stress Tests as Qualification Regimes: A Bayesian DSGE Model of Canadian Macroprudential Policy

Anne Duong ‘26
Bayesian Estimation of a Small Open Economy New Keynesian DSGE-VAR Model: The Impact of Inflation Targeting in the Case of Vietnam after the Global Financial Crisis

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George Gan ’26
The Effect of Protective Trade Policies on Equity Prices – A Demand System Approach

Jake Simon

Jake Simon ’26
The Minimum Wage Puzzle: Spillover Bias in Contiguous County Studies

Jiayang Gary Sun ’26
Sovereign-Fiscal Contagion Without Exit: Withdrawing Implicit Guarantees on China’s Local Government DebtCrisis