Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)We document the types of undergraduate colleges and universities attended by those who earned a doctorate in economics from an American university from 1966 through 2003 and examine relationships between type of undergraduate ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)A historiographical analysis of thematic mapping in turn-of-the-century Chicago reveals the role of cartography as a highly politicized method for sorting and labeling urban populations. Progressive Era reformers and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)Simon Rottenberg long ago noted that the nature of sports is such that competitors must be of approximately equal ability if any are to be financially successful. In recent years, sports commentators and fans, Major League ...
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(2015-01-15)
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(McGill University. Comparative Literature Program, 1990)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2000)
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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)