Ruben Ramirez '12 (St. Louis Park, Minn.), who graduated from Carleton last June with a B.A. in economics, has received the second-place award in this year's Undergraduate Student Paper Contest from the Minnesota Economic Association. The MEA, which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, is a professional connection between business and economic professionals and college economics professors. Ramirez won the award for his paper "Historical Economic Integration in Europe: Application of a Threshold Auto-Regressive Model With Price Data from 1295-1914," which looks at the gradual process of economic integration among European cities.
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