Browsing by Subject "Efficiency"
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(2016-03-28)Department: Mechanical EngineeringSeveral technical needs were identified and addressed for advancing the Strain Energy Accumulator (SEA), which is an energy storage device consisting of an expandable rubber bladder inside of a rigid shroud that stores ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)This paper studies a flexible price version of the Prescott (1975) hotels model. Unlike rigid price versions of the model, here the equilibrium outcome is efficient if potential buyers have the same downward sloping demand ...
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(Judicature, 2008)In accord with traditions celebrating the generalist judge, the federal judiciary has consistently resisted proposals for specialized courts. Outward support for specialization, if it exists at all, is confined to narrow ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This paper shows how, under threat of revolution, a nation's elite are able to maintain political stability and hence ownership of their wealth by creating or expanding a `pampered bureaucracy.' The elite thus divert part ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)In a classic model of tax competition, we show that the level of public good provision and taxation in a decentralized equilibrium can be efficient or inefficient with either too much, or too little public good provision. ...
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(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 ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Center for Teaching, 2009-02-05)
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(Vanderbilt University. Center for Teaching, 2009-02-05)