Browsing by Title
Now showing items 4380-4399 of 17424
-
(2010-12-10)Department: Community Research and ActionEmpirical investigations that examine mortgage default tend to frame studies with theory that emphasizes individual financial factors and minimizes ecological factors, which may influence defaulters' opinions of their homes ...
-
(2010-05-10)Department: Biological SciencesEcological speciation is defined as the process by which reproductive isolation arises between populations as a result of ecologically based divergent selection between environments. Selection is ecological when individual ...
-
(2006-09-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation employs high-frequency data and techniques to examine various topics in financial markets. Chapter 1 compares forward regression model with eight statistical/practical trading exchange rate models in terms ...
-
(2019-07-10)Department: EconomicsStrategic interactions change the outcome and the duration of a trade agreement, but it is hard to estimate their effects. First, countries chose their partners in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) based on other countries’ ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-05)In the 1960s numerous cities in the United States experienced violent, race-related civil disturbances. Although social scientists have long studied the causes of the riots, the consequences have received much less attention. ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This chapter provides a survey of much of the recent theoretical analysis of products liability. We start by describing an idealized model and providing the specific economic assumptions which underpin it. Later sections ...
-
(2015-04-08)Department: Law and EconomicsThis dissertation uses Python-based programming to retrieve and analyze a sample of approximately 400,000 material contracts that companies filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission between 2001 and 2013, focusing ...
-
(Journal of Labor Economics, 1984)Contests are situations in which an individual's reward depends on his performance relative to others. Students are graded on a curve; the candidate with the most votes gets the political office; the un- derling who performs ...
-
(Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996)Almost since the inception of the risk and environmental agencies in the early 1970s, there has been a continuing concern with ensuring that regulations yield societal benefits commensurate with their costs. This recognition ...
-
(Texas Law Review, 2016)In the last four decades, the American middle class has been hollowed out, and fears are growing that economic inequality is leading to political inequality. These trends raise a troubling question: Can our constitutional ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)In this article, the optimal interest rate rule generated by Svennson's (1997) dynamic model is used to determine the impact that a number of key structural characteristics have on the downward flexibility of interest rates ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2005)We briefly review two basic models of settlement bargaining based on concepts from information economics and game theory. We then discuss how these models have been generalized to address issues that arise when there are ...
-
(Southern California Review of Law & Women's Studies, 1997)The composition of the labor force has changed dramatically since 1960. In 1960, only one-third of the labor force participants were female. However, since the 1960s, the labor force rates of men have declined, from 83.3% ...
-
(Indiana Law Review, 2003)This Article considers the economic and policy merits of the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act, passed by Congress and signed into law in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2014)
-
(Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-08-17)
-
(Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
-
(Supreme Court Economic Review, 2011)The article first compares economics and behavioral biology, examining the assumptions, core concepts, methodological tenets, and emphases of the two fields. Building on this, the article then compares the applied ...
-
(Georgetown Law Journal, 2002)This piece is a response to an article by Andrew Guzman, which proffers an efficiency framework for choice-of-law problems in interjurisdictional conflicts. The response incorporates insights from public choice theory into ...