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    • The Housing Market Impact of State-Level Anti-Discrimination Laws 
      Collins, William J. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      This paper measures the housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws in the 1960s using household-level and census-tract data. State-level "fair-housing" laws attempted to bar discrimination on the basis ...
    • The Impact of Changing Skill Levels on Optimal Nonlinear Income Taxes 
      Brett, Craig; Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      The impact of changing an individual's skill level on the solution to a finite population version of the Mirrlees optimal nonlinear income tax problem with quasilinear-in-leisure preferences is investigated. It is shown ...
    • The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots 
      Collins, William J.; Margo, Robert A. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      Between 1964 and 1971, hundreds of riots erupted in American cities, resulting in large numbers of injuries, deaths, and arrests, as well as in considerable property damage that was concentrated in predominantly black ...
    • The Labor Market for New Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Ph.D.s 
      Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      This paper describes the characteristics and labor market experiences of new agricultural and natural resource (ANR) economics Ph.D.s, based on surveys of graduates in 1996-97 and 2001-02. An average of 185 new Ph.D.s in ...
    • The Labor Market Impact of State-Level Fair Employment Laws, 1940-1960 
      Collins, William J. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      By the time Congress passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 98 percent of non-southern blacks (40 percent of all blacks) were already covered by state-level "fair employment" laws which prohibited labor market discrimination. ...
    • The Law of Demand in Tiebout Economies 
      Cartwright, Edward; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We consider a general equilibrium local public goods economy in which agents have two distinguishing characteristics. The first is 'crowding type,' which is publicly observable and provides direct costs or benefits to the ...
    • The Normative Approach to the Measurement of Multidimensional Inequality 
      Weymark, John A. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      This article provides an introduction to the normative approach to multidimensional inequality measurement. Multivariate generalizations of the procedures used to construct univariate inequality indices from social evaluation ...
    • The Partnered Core of a Game with Side Payments 
      Reny, Philip J.; Winter, Eyal; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2009)
      An outcome of a game is partnered if there are no asymmetric dependencies between any two players. For a cooperative game, a payoff is in the partnered core of the game if it is partnered, feasible and cannot be improved ...
    • The Pitfalls of a Partially Honest Bureaucracy: Bribery, Inefficiency, and Bureaucratic Delay 
      Ahlin, Chris; Bose, Pinaki (Vanderbilt University, 2002)
      Bribery, it has been argued, allocates resources efficiently. We show that this conclusion need not hold in a dynamic extension of a simple static model in which it does. When permits are awarded over time and applicants ...
    • The Political Economy of Race and the Adoption of Fair Employment Laws, 1940-1964 
      Collins, William J. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      This paper explores the political economy of anti-discrimination legislation during the ascendancy of the Civil Rights Movement. It traces the diffusion of state-level fair employment legislation and evaluates the relative ...
    • The Pro-Trade Effects of Immigration on American Exports During Period 1870 to 1910 
      Hutchinson, William K. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      This paper examines the impact of a stock of immigrants in the United States on American exports to their home country during the period 1870 to 1910. Our data set spans the exports of 44 commodities to 17 countries observed ...
    • The Role of Government in the Credit Market 
      Eden, Benjamin (Vanderbilt University, 2009)
      The paper assumes a government advantage in collecting income contingent payments and develop a proposal for a government loan program that is an integral part of the tax system. The focus is on administrative costs and ...
    • The Sensitivity of Capital Use to Price in Higher Education 
      Getz, Malcolm; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2004)
      We test whether U.S. colleges and universities adjust their physical capital intensity to differences in factor prices by regressing the square feet of space per student on construction prices across institutions. The ...
    • The Structure and Performance of the World Market in a Cobb-Douglas Example 
      Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      In an international trading economy where countries set tariffs strategically, modeled using a Cobb-Douglas example, this paper studies the relationship between the structure and the performance of the world market. Using ...
    • The Undergraduate Origins of Ph.D. Economists 
      Siegfried, John J.; Stock, Wendy A. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      We document the types of undergraduate colleges and universities attended by those who earned a doctorate in economics from an American university from 1966 through 2003 and examine relationships between type of undergraduate ...
    • Thinking About Competitive Balance 
      Sanderson, Allen R.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      Simon Rottenberg long ago noted that the nature of sports is such that competitors must be of approximately equal ability if any are to be financially successful. In recent years, sports commentators and fans, Major League ...
    • Trade Restrictions and Factor Prices:Slave Prices in Early Nineteenth Century US 
      Coleman, Ashley N.; Hutchinson, William K. (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      Trade restrictions impact factor and commodity prices in very predictable ways according to international trade theory. We use a new data set to explore the direct effect on the price of slaves that resulted from legislation ...
    • Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards: A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process 
      Beshkar, Mostafa (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      I model the World Trade Organization as an impartial arbitrator with no enforcement power which issues public signals correlated with the state of the world in the disputing countries. Such public signals, by mitigating ...
    • Trimmed Strategies: Achieving Sequentially Rational Equilibria with only Partially Specified Strategies 
      Groenert, Valeska (Vanderbilt University, 2008)
      Both subgame-perfect equilibrium and weak-perfect Bayesian equilibrium impose rationality at information sets that are irrelevant for a sequentially rational outcome. In this paper, for each of these equilibrium concepts, ...
    • Turning Points in Leadership: Shipping Technology in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires 
      Rei, Claudia (Vanderbilt University, 2011)
      This paper focuses on the implications of organizational control on the race for economic leadership across merchant empires. Poor organizational choices reduce incentives to invest, which in turn stifle technological ...