Browsing by Title
Now showing items 5689-5708 of 17413
-
(2013-05-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation explores a largely ignored phenomenon, financial intermediation costs and their effects on business cycles. By constructing a unique micro level, high frequency dataset that contains intermediation cost ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)What happens when liquidity increases in credit markets and more funds are channeled from borrowers to lenders? We examine this question in a general equilibrium model where financial matchmakers help borrowers (firms) and ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper brings together two strands of the economic literature -- that on the finance-growth nexus and that on capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country ...
-
(2019-03-20)Department: Medicine, Health, and SocietyA growing body of evidence has coined a new term in oncology research and practice – “Financial Toxicity” – in relation to the high out-of-pocket costs and cost-sharing insinuated on cancer patients. More research is needed ...
-
(Ohio State Law Journal, 1989)The cost of sending a child to college in the United States is rapidly increasing. As a result, the need for families to plan ahead to meet this cost has never been greater. Paramount in making those plans is the consideration ...
-
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)In this article, the joint use of an income tax and public provision of education as instruments to achieve the government's distributional objectives are considered. Individuals differ in innate labour productivity and ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Human Resources, 2009-04-24)
-
(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
-
(Tulane Maritime Law Journal, 1988)The federalism aspect of the United States Supreme Court's admiralty jurisprudence has long been adrift.' No feature of admiralty law illustrates the Court's difficulties in this regard better than maritime wrongful death ...
-
(2021-08-23)Department: AstrophysicsThe lifespan of a galaxy is punctuated by both mergers and flybys, yet most methods to track the galaxy assembly history within a cosmological simulation are designed to identify only mergers. Here, we present the full ...
-
(2011-04-13)Department: ReligionThis project is concerned with the development of the scene of sermon invention in the field of homiletics. In this dissertation, I trace the development of the ways in which homiletic theory and pedagogy has treated the ...
-
(2021-03-23)Department: EconomicsI present three essays on the effect of fine particulate air pollution (PM 2.5) on workplace and vehicular accident risk. The first essay examines how PM 2.5 exposure affects the probability of serious construction worksite ...
-
(Intenational Journal of Cancer, 2020-03-01)We previously identified a novel breast cancer susceptibility variant on chromosome 4q31.22 locus (rs1429142) conferring risk among women of European ancestry. Here, we report replication of findings, validation of the ...
-
(2019-03-28)Department: PhysicsA covariant description of quantum matter fields in the early universe underpins models for the origin of species, e.g. baryogenesis and dark matter production. In nearly all cases the relevant cosmological observables are ...
-
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2011-04)Finite element modeling was performed using COMSOL Multiphysics to study the thermal dynamics of gold::vanadium dioxide (VO$_{2}$) nanocomposites. These simulations were done to understand the data from transient ...
-
(2005-07-23)Department: Environmental EngineeringThe inherent heterogeneity of subsurface porous media, as well as the occurrence of highly non-linear rate-limiting mass transfer processes, results in significant challenges to accurate and efficient modeling of contaminant ...
-
(Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 2020)This Article shows that fintech exacerbates the difficulties of standard setting in international financial regulation. Earlier work introduced the "Innovation Trilemma"(the Trilemrma). When seeking to balance the goals ...
-
(Georgetown Law Journal, 2019)Whether in response to roboadvising, artificial intelligence, or crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, regulators around the world have made it a top policy priority to supervise the exponential growth of financial technology ...
-
(Georgetown Law Journal, 2019)Whether in response to robo advising, artificial intelligence, or cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, regulators around the world have made it a top policy priority to supervise the exponential growth of financial technology ...