Browsing Department of Economics by Title

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    • What is Happening to the Impact of Financial Deepening on Economic Growth? 
      Rousseau, Peter L.; Wachtel, Paul (Vanderbilt University, 2009)
      Although the finance-growth relationship is now firmly entrenched in the empirical literature, we show that it is not as strong in more recent data as it was in the original studies with data for the period from 1960 to ...
    • Where Are They Now? Tracking the Ph.D. Class of 1997 
      Stock, Wendy A.; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      We report early career outcomes of economics Ph.D.s by tracking the U.S. class of 1996-97. We examine employment outcomes, work activities, salaries, and graduates' attitudes toward their jobs. By 2003, all of the respondents ...
    • Where Do the Children Of Professors Attend College? 
      Siegfried, John J.; Getz, Malcolm (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      To ask whether the best-informed consumers of higher education, the faculty, make different choices than other similarly endowed consumers, we compare the pattern of colleges chosen by 5,592 children of college and university ...
    • Why are Trade Agreements Regional? 
      Zissimos, Ben (Vanderbilt University, 2010)
      This paper shows how distance may be used to coordinate on a unique equilibrium in which trade agreements are regional. Trade agreement formation is modeled as coalition formation. In a standard trade model with no distance ...