Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper analyzes a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit market imperfections. We examine the relative roles of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, and history ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)We introduce a subsidized Vickrey auction for cost sharing problems. Although the average, marginal, and serial cost sharing mechanisms are budget-balanced, they are not allocatively efficient and they do not induce players ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This article establishes versions of Moulin's [On strategy-proofness and single peakedness, Public Choice 35 (1980), 31-38] characterizations of various classes of strategy-proof social choice functions when the domain ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1985)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)Volatile and persistent real exchange rates are observed not only in aggregate series but also in the individual good level data. Kehoe and Midrigan (2007) recently showed that, under a standard assumption on nominal price ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements, industry wide spillovers ...
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(Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, 2007)This article proposes that activist translators be involved and engaged in those legal realms, such as the treatment of "illegals" or undocumented migrants, because this is an area in which translators can act as true ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-12-13)
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(Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824-02)
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(Oxford University Press, 1979)Many students of religion suggest that wholeness or the attainment of an integrated self is an especially valuable goal whose attainment marks a moment of religious insight. Theoreticians like Jung, Allport, and Maslow ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)State Medicaid home and community-based waiver programs for persons with AIDS (PWAs) were implemented with the expectation that PWAs would use home and community-based services in lieu of more expensive hospital-based care. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-20)
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(2015-04-23)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)In this paper, a modification is made to the endogenous growth model studied by Lucas [1988]. It is shown that if individuals derive utility from their level of human capital, then a tax on the return to physical capital ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)The effects of distortional fiscal policies are studied within a model in which there is endogenous investment-specific technological change. Labor is used in the production of output and also for research purposes. Labor ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-01-05)The zodiac, a pagan symbol believed to have originated in 7th century BCE Babylonia, appears in the floor mosaics of numerous synagogue ruins through the Palestine region, including one found in a fifth century synagogue ...