Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(J. J. Stockdale, 1808)
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(2012-03-29)David Bollier gave this lecture on "The Commons" in general, with emphasis on the management of the commons on March 29, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Bollier calls his work ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-18)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)Firms communicate product quality attributes to consumers through a variety of channels, such as pricing, advertising, releases of research reports and test results, or warranties and returns policies. The conceptualization ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Comparative static properties of the solution to an optimal nonlinear income tax problem are provided for a model in which the government both designs a redistributive income tax schedule and provides a public input into ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-07)How does the need to signal quality through price affect equilibrium pricing and profits, when a firm faces a similarly-situated rival? In this paper, we provide a model of non-cooperative signaling by two firms that compete ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over standards and taxes, the developing country may have a 'second mover advantage.' A key feature of standards is that, unlike public goods ...
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(Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1905)
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(2018)These files consist of topographic profile data, images from an acoustic hillslope experiment, and python codes to read the data and analyze the Fourier transforms of the profiles. There are four folders containing ...
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(2017-06-06)In recent work, Hess and Shipley defined a theory of topological coHochschild homology (coTHH) for coalgebras. In this paper we develop computational tools to study this new theory. In particular, we prove a Hochschild-K ...
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(2012-02-09)Lecture on water; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism"
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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 ...