Browsing College of Arts and Science by Title
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(Vanderbilt University, 2005)Is conformity amongst similar individuals consistent with self-interested behavior? We consider a model of incomplete information in which each player receives a signal, interpreted as an allocation to a role, and can make ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)Two aspects of corruption are examined theoretically: its effect on macroeconomic variables, and its determination from the political environment. Corruption is defined in an occupational choice model as the extra fees or ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2006)Cournot's 1838 model of strategic interaction between competing firms has become the primary workhorse for the analysis of imperfect competition, and shows up in a variety of fields, notably industrial organization and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)America's adult population is economically illiterate. College economics instruction must shoulder some of the blame for this situation. Forty percent of all college graduates take an economics course. Over 95 percent of ...
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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, 2000)This paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium model with production to examine the inter-relationships between the real and the financial sectors with and without credit market imperfections. Due to the moral hazard ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01-20)We consider a simple model in which agents are endowed with heterogeneous abilities and differing degrees of honesty. Agents choose either to become criminals or invest in education and become workers instead. The model ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 1991)"With the advent of the public opinion poll, politicians began to have access to highly reliable information about the electorate's views on issues. Prior to this development, party leaders could only make educated guesses ...
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(Garland Pub., 1807)
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(Western States Communication Association, 1999)We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the many issues raised in Kendall Phillips's (1999a) essay "A Rhetoric of Controversy" and Thomas Goodnight's (1999) essay/response "Mssrs. Dinkins, Rangel and Savage in Colloquy ...
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(Speech Communication Association, 1995-03)Critical rhetoricians should, by criticizing vernacular discourse, follow the path of those who have discussed the rhetoric of the oppressed. The critique of powerful discourse has broad "historical" impact and therefore ...
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(Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2020-01-14)Word learning requires learners to bind together arbitrarily-related phonological, visual, and conceptual information. Prior work suggests that this binding can be robustly achieved via incidental cross-situational statistical ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 1996)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011)In the traditional model of the law and economics of torts, harm accrues proportional to use. This has the remarkable implication for products-generated torts that product performance concerns (e.g., issues of care and of ...
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(University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dept. of English, 1995)
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Dark Matter benchmark models for early LHC Run-2 Searches: Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum (Physics of the Dark Universe, 2020-01)This document is the final report of the ATLAS-CMS Dark Matter Forum, a forum organized by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations with the participation of experts on theories of Dark Matter, to select a minimal basis set of ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2012-04)Cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations suggest the possibility of an extra dark radiation component, while the current evidence from big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) is more ambiguous. Dark radiation from a decaying ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 2009-04-20)The Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has brilliant prospects for uncovering new information about the physical structure of our universe. Soon physicists around the world ...