Best Thesis/Capstone Award Winners
MA in Economics
Outstanding Thesis: Tatyana Yakushina
Title: Female Leadership in Public Procurement: Evidence on Hungary
Supervisor: Miklos Koren
MA in Economic Policy in Global Markets
Outstanding Thesis: Aman Elemanov
Title: Employment Consequences of School-Exit Multiple Choice Examination in the Kyrgyz Republic
Supervisor: Timea Molnar
MS in Business Analytics
Outstanding Capstone: Seneca Miller
Title: Formula 1 Media Dynamics: Uncovering What Drives Broadcast Coverage Client-Facing Analytics to Decode Regional, Temporal, and Sponsor-Level Patterns in Global F1 Exposure
Supervisor: Eduardo de la Rubia
MS in Finance
Outstanding Capstone: Dennis Beelen
Title: An Analysis of DeFi Aggregators with a Focus on Swapping Functionalities
Supervisor: Ibolya Schindele
MA in Economics
Outstanding Thesis Award Honorable Mention: Nurdaulet Menglibayev
Title: Synthetic Control Methods: Balance Between Overfitting and Underfitting with Limited Data
Supervisor: Robert Lieli
MA in Economic Policy in Global Markets
Outstanding Thesis Award Honorable Mention: Artem Bilko
Title: Harvesting the Blast Craters: Ukraine's Post-War Recovery Potential through Synthetic Control and Input-Output Modeling
Supervisor: Balazs Romhanyi