Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1810)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Trade restrictions impact factor and commodity prices in very predictable ways according to international trade theory. We use a new data set to explore the direct effect on the price of slaves that resulted from legislation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)I model the World Trade Organization as an impartial arbitrator with no enforcement power which issues public signals correlated with the state of the world in the disputing countries. Such public signals, by mitigating ...
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(Ecology and Evolution, 2019-05)Larval and adult mosquitoes mount immune responses against pathogens that invade their hemocoel. Although it has been suggested that a correlation exists between immune processes across insect life stages, the influence ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-17)Grounded in postwar German and British poetry, this thesis explores the dynamic tension between the historicity located in poetic language and the trans-temporality of the identification mechanism facilitated by the lyrical ...
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(Oxford: Clarendon press, 1896, 1896)
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(Duke University Presshttp://www.dukeupress.edu/, 1966)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)Both subgame-perfect equilibrium and weak-perfect Bayesian equilibrium impose rationality at information sets that are irrelevant for a sequentially rational outcome. In this paper, for each of these equilibrium concepts, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)The replacement of trolley systems by buses, a process which fundamentally reshaped America's urban landscape, has long been viewed as inevitable. However, in this paper, I look beyond arguments of financial necessity to ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This paper focuses on the implications of organizational control on the race for economic leadership across merchant empires. Poor organizational choices reduce incentives to invest, which in turn stifle technological ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2004)
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(Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, 2007)A pesar de la creciente ubicuidad de la tecnología digital, la crítica literaria apenas ha explorado de manera práctica las posibilidades expositivas del hipertexto cibernético, especialmente en lo que hace a la utilización ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Data on 2,822 Vanderbilt University graduates are used to investigate alumni giving behavior during the eight years after graduation. A two stage model accounting for incidental truncation is used to first estimate the ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studiohttp://www.vanderbilt.edu/writing/students/papers/, 2010-03)In March 2010 the Writing Studio and The Commons will host the second annual Vanderbilt Undergraduate Writing Symposium. Vanderbilt students will read and discuss successfully written course papers from across the disciplines. ...
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(Vanderbilt University Writing Studio, 2009-03-24)
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)We study good-by-good deviations from the Law-of-One-Price for over 5,000 goods and services between European Union countries for the years 1975, 1980, 1985 and 1990. We find that between most countries there are roughly ...
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(Fortress Press, 1989)In this book I offer a causal explanation for occult beliefs. I try to show what events in a person's live typically precede the occult moment and why the occult moment is so important to that person's sense of herself or ...
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Unique Inefficient Perfect Equilibrium in a Stochastic Model of Bargaining with Complete Information (Vanderbilt University, 2001)We consider a two-player strategic bargaining model with discounting in which (i) the interim disagreement point in each period is stochastically determined at the beginning of the period, and (ii) the proposing player can ...