Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)The degree to which explicit inflation targets contribute to the success of price stabilization policies has not been conclusively established. To assess the impact of announced inflation targets on the effectiveness of ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Childhood obesity is a significant public health problem that also has economic consequences. Medical research suggests that nutritional interventions at a young age can influence nutritional behavior and reduce childhood ...
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(Henry Colburn, 1813)
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(University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dept. of English, 1977)
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Hégémonie, dissidence et contre-discours : réfléxions sur les périphéries du discours social en 1889 (McGill University. Comparative Literature Program, 1988)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)This article considers measures of individual welfare change for projects that change the state distribution of prices and incomes. For a consumer whose preferences satisfy the expected utility hypothesis, we investigate ...
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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, 2006-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04-29)
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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. ...