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Lucky Man: Delbert Mann, A Biographical Essay
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
This paper provides an overview of Delbert Mann's life from his community theatre activities in Nashville and Columbia, South Carolina, to his work in the early days of television and his subsequent career as a film director.
"What Lips These Lips Have Kissed": Refiguring the Politics of Queer Public Kissing
(National Communication Association (U.S.), 2006-03)
In this essay, we argue that man-on-man kissing, and its representations, have been insufficiently mobilized within apolitical, incremental, and assimilationist pro-gay logics of visibility. In response, we call for a ...
VU GeoNews 2006
(Vanderbilt University, 2006-09)
Hurricane Katrina: Before and After, Inside and Out
(Vanderbilt University, 2006-04)
Hidden Talents: Partnerships with Pareto-Improving Private Information
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Can the presence of private information in a transaction yield a Pareto-improvement over complete information? In this paper we show that the combination of multi-agent simultaneous signaling of private information, and ...
Menu Costs and Markov Inflation:A Theoretical Revision with New Evidence
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We revisit a foundational theoretical paper in the menu cost literature, Sheshinski and Weiss (1983), one of the few to treat stochastic inflation with persistent deviations from trend. In contrast to the original finding, ...
Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
This article considers measures of individual welfare change for projects that change the state distribution of prices and incomes. For a consumer whose preferences satisfy the expected utility hypothesis, we investigate ...
Strategic Basins of Attraction, the Path Dominance Core, and Network Formation Games
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Given the preferences of players and the rules governing network formation, what networks are likely to emerge and persist? And how do individuals and coalitions evaluate possible consequences of their actions in forming ...
Protests and Reputation
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Protests take place for a variety of reasons. In this paper we focus on protests that have a well defined objective, that is in conflict with the objectives of the government. Hence the success or failure of a protest ...
Persistence in Law-of-One-Price Deviations: Evidence from Micro-data
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We study the dynamics of good-by-good real exchange rates using a micro-panel of 270 goods prices drawn from major cities in 63 countries and 258 goods prices drawn from 13 major U.S. cities. We find the half-life of ...