Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Can the presence of private information in a transaction yield a Pareto-improvement over complete information? In this paper we show that the combination of multi-agent simultaneous signaling of private information, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2013-04-22)Electron microscopy has been the recent subject of molecular imaging due to the strength of the electrons' interaction with the target molecule making for a detailed pattern at a small scale.[1] To achieve the best 4D ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years ...
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(P.S. King & son, 1909)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)We add congestion/snobbery to the Hotelling model of spatial competition. For any firm locations on opposite sides of the midpoint, a pure strategy price equilibrium exists and is unique if congestion costs are strong ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper looks at the paradigm of the past two decades that goes under the name of "new trade theory" or "new international economics", and rejects the assumptions underlying mainstream trade theory such as constant ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)The impacts of changing the number of individuals of a particular skill level on the solutions to two versions of the finite population optimal nonlinear income tax problem are investigated. In one version, preferences are ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)This paper studies the allocation of skilled and unskilled workers with different human capital levels between locations: city and rural area. In the city, activities are congregated thus there is externality in production. ...
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(Comparative Studies in Society and History / Cambridge University Press, 2015-01-01)In the mid-twentieth century, renewed colonization of the Llanos region of Colombia brought escalated violence to the closely related Guahibo and Cuiva peoples. This violence was made public by two dramatic episodes that ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)When data contain errors, parameters of interest typically are not identified without imposing strong assumptions. However, in many cases, bounds on these parameters can be constructed under relatively weak assumptions. ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-05)This essay, written in honor of the economic historian Robert Higgs, surveys the economic history of African Americans from the end of slavery to the present day. This history, I argue, was largely one of convergence. ...
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(BMC Bioinformatics, 2019-12-04)Background: Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) of antibody repertoires have led to an explosion in B cell receptor sequence data from donors with many different disease states. These data have the potential to ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-04)The paper estimates the impact on school attendance and child labor of conditional cash payments to poor families in Brazil. It describes Brazil's transfer programs and presents statistics on school attendance and child ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)We examine the interplay of imperfect competition and incomplete information in the context of price competition among firms producing horizontally- and vertically-differentiated substitute products. We find that incomplete ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)The welfare gains from adopting a zero nominal interest policy depend on the implementation details. Here I argue that implementing the Friedman rule by a government loan program may be better than implementing it by ...
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The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865 (Vanderbilt University, 2009)Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)We investigate how increases in publication delays have affected the life-cycle of publications of recent Ph.D. graduates in economics. We construct a panel dataset of 14,271 individuals who were awarded Ph.D.s between ...