Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)A large body of evidence links financial development to economic growth, yet the channels through which inflation affects this relationship and its stability have been less thoroughly explored. We take an econometric and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage non-cooperative game between the government and the central bank. The solution to this policy game determines the optimal combination of central bank ...
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Influence of patient size on dose to female breast tissue during routine computed tomography scans (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, 2008-04-21)Monte Carlo methods are well suited to the evaluation of radiation transport phenomena. The scalable phantoms employed in this project permitted rapid creation of three models of similar geometry, but different body habitus. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper explores a new aspect of the relationship between backwardness and growth, "information spillover". If solving problems is a source of economic growth, then knowing which problems have been solved is per se ...
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(19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2008-10)The Legacy of Cain (1888), the last novel Wilkie Collins published before his death, is structured as a case study of the respective influences of nature and nurture. The central question is whether the daughter of a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-08-27)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)The paper analyzes the intermediation role of government under the assumption that it has an advantage over the private sector in collecting uncollateralized loan payments. It isshown that a government loan program may ...
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(2014-11-14)The search for optimal thermoelectric materials aims for structures in which the crystalline order is disrupted to lower the thermal conductivity without degradation of the electron conductivity. Here we report the synthesis ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)This paper is a non-technical review of research developments in the international real business cycle literature. International business cycle facts are summarize with particular attention to the sources of output variance ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)Cole and Obstfeld (1991) exposited a classic result where equilibrium movements in the terms of trade could make ex ante risk-sharing arrangements unnecessary: a unity elasticity of substitution across goods and production ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)What are the "liquidity services" provided by ìover-pricedî assets? How do international seigniorage payments affect the choice of monetary policies? Does a country gain when other hold its ìover-pricedî ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Australia, Canada, Germany, and the United States experienced a substantial decline in undergraduate degrees in economics from 1992 through 1996, followed immediately by a modest recovery. This cycle does not conform to ...
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(Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction (TTR), 1993)This paper discusses the obstacles facing interpreters and translators in inter-cultural situations with reference to Canadian Convention refugee hearings, taped in 1987. The author sets forth a theory of interpretation ...
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(Journal of Field Archaeology, 2020-02-20)Archaeologists study many phenomena that scale beyond even our most geographically expansive field methodologies. The promise of collecting archaeologically relevant data beyond the scale of regional surveys is among the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Women's and Gender Studies, 2010)
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(Vanderbilt University. Women's and Gender Studies, 2009-04-03)
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)Dr. Michael Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is one of the leading scholars in his field. He is a specialist 20th- and 21st-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and ...
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(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2010-04)Enclosed microfluidic devices provide excellent systems for the study of biological processes such as cell-cell, paracrine, and autocrine signaling systems. By minimizing the fluid volume within the chambers, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2004)Head Start is a comprehensive, early childhood development program designed to augment the human capital and health capital levels of disadvantaged children. Grossman's (1972) health capital model suggests that early ...