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Inherited Behaviour in Wilkie Collins's The Legacy of Cain: Victorian Studies and Twenty-First-Century Science Policy
(19 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2008-10)
The Legacy of Cain (1888), the last novel Wilkie Collins published before his death, is structured as a case study of the respective influences of nature and nurture. The central question is whether the daughter of a ...
The F Word; Vol. 18, No. 01 Spring 2008
(Vanderbilt University., 2008-04)
The F Word; Vol. 19, No. 02 Fall 2008
(Vanderbilt University., 2008-09)
GPED Newsletter, 2008
(2008)
"On Writing with Catherine Wagner"
(Vanderbilt University. Writing Studio, 2008-02-18)
Implementing the Friedman Rule by a Government Loan Program: An Overlapping Generations Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
The welfare gains from adopting a zero nominal interest policy depend on the implementation details. Here I argue that implementing the Friedman rule by a government loan program may be better than implementing it by ...
Substitution, Risk Aversion and Asset Prices: An Expected Utility Approach
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
The standard power utility function is widely used to explain asset prices. It assumes that the coefficient of relative risk aversion is the inverse of the elasticity of substitution. Here I use the Kihlstrom and Mirman ...
Optimal Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Savings without Commitment
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
Optimal nonlinear taxation of income and savings is considered in a two-period model with two individuals who have additively separable preferences and who only differ in their skill levels. When the government can commit ...
Learning, Adaptive Expectations, and Technology Shocks'
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
This study explores theoretical and macroeconomic implications of the self-confirming equilibrium in a standard growth model. When rational expectations are replaced by adaptive expectations, we prove that the self-confirming ...
Optimum Tariffs and Retaliation: How Country Numbers Matter
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
This paper presents a North-South model of international trade in which (i) there is a relatively small number of countries in the North and (ii) the North is relatively abundant in capital while the South is relatively ...