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VU GeoNews 2006
(Vanderbilt University, 2006-09)
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 ...
Hurricane Katrina: Before and After, Inside and Out
(Vanderbilt University, 2006-04)
Products Liability, Signaling and Disclosure
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
In this paper we examine the behavior of a firm that produces a product with a privately-observed safety attribute; that is, consumers cannot observe directly the product¬πs safety. The firm may, at a cost, disclose its ...
On Indeterminacy in Two Sector Models with Factor Market Distortions: The Importance of VIPIRS
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Previous literature has shown that local indeterminacy and local instability can arise in two-sector models when factor market distortions create a divergence between capital intensity ranking of the sectors on a physical ...
Determinants of Slave Prices: Louisiana, 1725 to 1820
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We utilize a previously untapped data source, Gwendolyn Hall (1999), to examine the market for slaves in Louisiana, both in New Orleans and outside of New Orleans. We are able to study the process of price determination ...
Measuring the Impact of Intervention on Exchange Market Pressure
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
Abstract: In this article, we introduce an index of ex ante exchange market pressure (EMP) that can be used as a benchmark against which to measure the effectiveness of sterilized intervention. Ex ante EMP is the change ...
The Structure and Performance of the World Market in a Cobb-Douglas Example
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
In an international trading economy where countries set tariffs strategically, modeled using a Cobb-Douglas example, this paper studies the relationship between the structure and the performance of the world market. Using ...
Hotelling Was Right About Snob/Congestion Goods (Asymptotically)
(Vanderbilt University, 2006)
We add congestion/snobbery to the Hotelling model of spatial competition. For any firm locations on opposite sides of the midpoint, a pure strategy price equilibrium exists and is unique if congestion costs are strong ...