Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(John Warren, 1824)
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(H. Colburn, 1824)
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)This paper examines the relationship between late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century Paris and Chicago by analyzing their respective commemorations and memorializations of the Paris Commune and the Haymarket Affair. Though ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)In this paper we revisit the issues addressed in Crucini and Kahn (1996) in the light of recent research on the Great Depression. In that paper we had argued that particular features of the Hawley-Smoot tariffs could have ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)In a classic model of tax competition, we show that the level of public good provision and taxation in a decentralized equilibrium can be efficient or inefficient with either too much, or too little public good provision. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)Using 114 years of U.S. stock market data we try to relate movements in stock prices to changes in technology. We find Measures of technological progress explain 37% of the 3.9% annual growth in the stock market over the ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Data on U.S. mergers and aquisitions from 1987 to 2006 indicate that firms with high market-to-book values (i.e., Tobin's Q) tend to merge with firms that have lower Q's, but that target Q's are on average higher than those ...
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(Oxford University Presshttp://www.oup.com, 1989)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2007)This paper studies the empirical relevance of temptation and self-control using household-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We construct an infinite-horizon consumption-savings model that allows, but does ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1992)
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(Vanderbilt University, 1993)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)This paper considers the test of a unit root in transitional autoregressive models. In particular, we develop the asymptotic theory of the inf-t test for the null hypothesis of a unit root in a wide class of nonlinear ...
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(Vanderbilt University, Department of History, 2016)In 1922, Congress passed the Cable Act, which allowed women who married foreigners eligible for naturalization to retain their U.S. citizenship. However, women who married aliens racially excluded from the naturalization ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)This paper investigates the role of social learning in the diffusion of different types of innovation in four urban areas of Brazil. A unique database of small sized firms in 19 economic sectors is used to show evidence ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2003)The College Football Association (CFA) sold rights to broadcast live games of its members from 1984 through 1995. It competed directly with the Big Ten and Pac Ten universities that sold an alternative broadcast package. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)In this paper, we explore whether heterogeneity among union members could threaten the stability of the EMU. The types of heterogeneity we consider are (1) asymmetries in the transmission of monetary and fiscal policies, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)The Housing Act of 1949 established a federally subsidized program that helped cities clear areas of existing buildings for redevelopment, rehabilitate deteriorating structures, complete comprehensive city plans, and enforce ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)This essay describes methodological approaches and pitfalls common to studies of the economic impact of colleges and universities. Such studies often claim local benefits that imply annualized rates of return on local ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)A dynamic general equilibrium model of search and matching is constructed in which: (i) the stock of public knowledge grows through time and (ii) workers accumulate a fraction of this knowledge through education while ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)Cloud computing brings together several existing technologies including service oriented architecture, distributed grid computing, virtualization, and broadband networking to provide software, infrastructure, and platforms ...