Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)We develop a discrete or finite household model with congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined in a purely normative context. ...
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(Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [etc.], 1824)
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(Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [etc.], 1824)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008)We examine the driving forces of G-7 business cycles. We decompose national business cycles into common and nation-specific components using a dynamic factor model. We also do this for driving variables found in business ...
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(McGill University. Comparative Literature Program, 1993)
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(Oxford University Presshttp://www.oup.com, 1988)"Open-ended questions are frequently used by survey researchers to measure public opinion. Some scholars, however, have doubts about how accurately these kinds of questions measure the views of the public. A chief concern ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)Abstract: What tangible benefit do universities who participate in major televised sports achieve from their commitment? The essay reviews the evidence on the gains in public funding, attraction of philanthropy, increases ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Although the finance-growth relationship is now firmly entrenched in the empirical literature, we show that it is not as strong in more recent data as it was in the original studies with data for the period from 1960 to ...
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(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2006-03)In this essay, we argue that man-on-man kissing, and its representations, have been insufficiently mobilized within apolitical, incremental, and assimilationist pro-gay logics of visibility. In response, we call for a ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)We report early career outcomes of economics Ph.D.s by tracking the U.S. class of 1996-97. We examine employment outcomes, work activities, salaries, and graduates' attitudes toward their jobs. By 2003, all of the respondents ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)To ask whether the best-informed consumers of higher education, the faculty, make different choices than other similarly endowed consumers, we compare the pattern of colleges chosen by 5,592 children of college and university ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)This paper shows how distance may be used to coordinate on a unique equilibrium in which trade agreements are regional. Trade agreement formation is modeled as coalition formation. In a standard trade model with no distance ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)This paper examines the structural changes in East German institutions that occurred in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years following German Reunification and how they represented a western "takeover" ...
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(Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1983)
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(NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2019-07-12)Wolbachia is a genus of obligate intracellular bacteria found in nematodes and arthropods worldwide, including insect vectors that transmit dengue, West Nile, and Zika viruses. Wolbachia's unique ability to alter host ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(H. L. Broenner, 1837)