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Jean Giono: latent political strategist or simple French ruralist? : an examination of the life and works of Jean Giono during the Vichy Era in France
(Vanderbilt University. Dept. of French and Italian, 2002-03-12)
Parties and Partisanship: A Brief Introduction
(Springer Verlag, 2002)
The article is an introduction to ten essays which will comprise a three-part special issue of the periodical Political Behavior. The essays are about partisanship in American politics. Geer summarizes the essays' topics ...
Literature and the Court: The Earlier Stuart Era
(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Exploiting Future Setlements: A Signalling Model of Most-Favored-Nation Clauses in Settlement Bargaining
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
"Most-favored-nation" (hereafter, MFN) clauses have been used in analyses of international trade, durable goods monopoly pricing, and franchise contracting to address a repeat player's time-inconsistency problem. Recent ...
Independence Before Conservatism: Transparency, Politics, and Central Bank Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage game between the government and the central bank. In the first stage the government chooses the institutional design of the central bank. Monetary and ...
Efficient Strategy-Proof Exchangeand Minimum Consumption Guarantees
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
For exchange economies with classical economic preferences, it is shown that any strategy-proof social choice function that selects Pareto optimal outcomes cannot guarantee everyone a consumption bundle bounded away from ...
Propagation Through Endogenous Investment-Specific Technological Change
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
Many real business cycle models lack a significant propagation mechanism. Consequently most of the serial correlation in output is inherited from the serial correlation in the exogenous shocks. A simple model is presented ...
Policy Games and the Optimal Design of Central Banks
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
This article studies the impact of alternative institutional configurations on economic performance when there is strategic interaction between the government and the central bank. The interaction between the fiscal and ...
Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
We study the dynamics of good-by-good real exchange rates using a micro-panel of 270 goods prices drawn from major cities in 71 countries and 245 goods prices drawn from 13 major U.S. cities. We find half-lives of deviations ...
Does Ease of Communication Increase Trade?Commonality of Language and Bilateral Trade
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
Gravity model explanations of trade volumes frequently include dummy variables to account for the commonality of language among trading partners. In this paper we use a data set for the number of people in a country who ...