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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Studies of early U.S. growth traditionally have emphasized real-sector explanations for an acceleration that by many accounts became detectable between 1815 and 1840. Interestingly, the establishment of the nation's basic ...
Dynamics in a Transactions-Based Monetary Growth Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper examines the dynamic properties of a monetary endogenous growth model in which money is introduced into the system via a transactions-cost technology. A monetary equilibrium that either satisfires the Friedman ...
Pennies from eBay: the Determinants of Price in Online Auctions
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper presents an exploratory analysis of the determinants of prices in online auctions for collectible one-cent coins at the eBay Web site. Our initial dataset consists of over 20,000 auctions which took place during ...
Bidding Behavior and Decision Costs in Field Experiments
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Whether rationality of economic behavior increases with expected payoffs and decreases with the cognitive cost it takes to formulate an optimal strategy remains an open question. We explore these issues with field data, ...
Isolated and Proximate Illiteracy And Why these Concepts Matter in Measuring Literacy and Designing Education Programmes
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
Traditionally, a society's literacy has been measured by the 'literacy rate' or the percent of the adult population that is literate. The present paper maintains that the distribution on literates across households also ...