Browsing Working Papers by Author "Conley, John P."
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Allouch, Nizar; Conley, John P.; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2008)We introduce a model of a local public goods economy with a continuum of agents and jurisdictions with finite, but unbounded populations, where the set of possible projects for each jurisdiction/club is unrestricted in ...
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Conley, John P.; Wang, Ping (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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Smith, Stefani C.; Conley, John P. (Vanderbilt University. Dept. of Economics, 2004-01)We consider a general equilibrium economy with public goods and externalities. Following Boyd and Conley (1997), we treat externality markets directly instead of indirectly through Arrovian commodities. Because such direct ...
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Conley, John P.; Crucini, Mario J.; Driskill, Robert A.; Onder, Ali Sina (Vanderbilt University, 2011)We investigate how increases in publication delays have affected the life-cycle of publications of recent Ph.D. graduates in economics. We construct a panel dataset of 14,271 individuals who were awarded Ph.D.s between ...
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Conley, John P.; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2005)We consider the classic puzzle of why people turn out for elections in substantial numbers even though formal analysis strongly suggests that rational agents would not vote. If one assumes that voters do not make systematic ...