Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We explore the potential for correlated equilibrium to capture conformity to norms and the coordination of behavior within social groups. Given a partition of players into social groups we propose three properties one may ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper considers the general problem of testing multiple inequality moment restrictions against an unrestricted alternative. We first introduce a test based on a maximum statistic and show how, via a partially recentered ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)Abstract: The paper investigates the role of the Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution () in determining the equity premium. This is done in an overlapping generations economy populated by agents that live for 2 periods ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(D. Appleton and Company, 1873)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2002)This paper is concerned with inflation targeting as a potential monetary policy objective in a developing economy. Using data from Nicaragua, it first studies the extent to which the Consumer Price Index (CPI) could be ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)This paper provides sufficient conditions to ensure nonemptiness of approximate cores of many-player games and symmetry of approximate core payoffs (the equal treatment property). The conditions are: (a) essential ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Is conformity amongst similar individuals consistent with self-interested behavior? We consider a model of incomplete information in which each player receives a signal, interpreted as an allocation to a role, and can make ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)Two aspects of corruption are examined theoretically: its effect on macroeconomic variables, and its determination from the political environment. Corruption is defined in an occupational choice model as the extra fees or ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Cournot's 1838 model of strategic interaction between competing firms has become the primary workhorse for the analysis of imperfect competition, and shows up in a variety of fields, notably industrial organization and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)America's adult population is economically illiterate. College economics instruction must shoulder some of the blame for this situation. Forty percent of all college graduates take an economics course. Over 95 percent of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium model with production to examine the inter-relationships between the real and the financial sectors with and without credit market imperfections. Due to the moral hazard ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01-20)We consider a simple model in which agents are endowed with heterogeneous abilities and differing degrees of honesty. Agents choose either to become criminals or invest in education and become workers instead. The model ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 1991)"With the advent of the public opinion poll, politicians began to have access to highly reliable information about the electorate's views on issues. Prior to this development, party leaders could only make educated guesses ...
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(Garland Pub., 1807)
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(Western States Communication Association, 1999)We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the many issues raised in Kendall Phillips's (1999a) essay "A Rhetoric of Controversy" and Thomas Goodnight's (1999) essay/response "Mssrs. Dinkins, Rangel and Savage in Colloquy ...