Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Duke University Press, 1994)
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of French and Italian, 2000-12)
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(Scientific Reports, 2019-08-08)Previous studies from psychology, neuroscience and geography showed that environmental barriers fragment the representation of the environment, reduce spatial navigation efficiency, distort distance estimation and make ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)In his book, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, Toyin Falola poses the fundamental question of "How can Africa uplift itself?" in the wake of decolonization. This question of how Africa should proceed from colonization ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1976)
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(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2009-03-22)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper develops an endogenous growth model with labor market matching and technology adoption. While labor market search and entry frictions lengthen technology diffusion, exogenous technology arrival may creatively ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)The equivalence of markets and games concerns the relationship between two sorts of structures that appear fundamentally different -- markets and games. Shapley and Shubik (1969) demonstrates that: (1) games derived from ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This paper analyzes economic linkages between the exhaustion and protection of intellectual property. We consider a North-South model, where a firm that enjoys monopoly status in the North by virtue of an intellectual ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)We explore the interplay of market structure and government trade policy in the context of a heterogenous goods duopoly model (allowing for goods to be substitutes or complements) wherein governments simultaneously and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)In this paper we examine the nexus between product markets and the legal system. We examine a model wherein oligopolists produce differentiated products that also have a safety attribute. Consumption of these products may ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of French and Italian, 2000-04)
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(2015-01-15)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)We explore how the incentives of a plaintiff and her attorney, when considering filing suit and bargaining over settlement, can differ between those suits associated with stand-alone torts cases and those suits involving ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Using a sample of 26 U.S. economics Ph.D. programs in Fall 2003, we estimate that only about 12 percent of the U.S. and Canadian students accepted for doctoral study did not enroll in any U.S. economics Ph.D. program in ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)This paper presents and examines a new algorithm for solving a score equation for the maximum likelihood estimate in certain problems of practical interest. The method circumvents the need to compute second order derivatives ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1987)
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(Physics Letter B, 2019-07-14)The production cross sections of B-s(0) mesons and charge conjugates are measured in proton-proton (pp) and PbPb collisions via the exclusive decay channel B-s(0)-> J/ psi phi ->mu(+) mu(-) K+K- at a center-of-mass energy ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)A retarding mesh analyzer was used to measure the electron energy spectrum field emitted from a single tip of a Diamond Field Emitter Array. The emission was dominated by adsorbed gas atoms and molecules on the surface ...