Vassar Scholarship

Digital art faces challenges that non-digital art does not. Technology is mercurial, and digital art is always in danger of its platform becoming obsolete. It is, at its most basic form, information which can be transferred and viewed across different...

It is commonly believed that firms prefer layoffs to worksharing, in part, because layoffs economize on fringe benefit costs. We find that when labor markets are characterized by optimal implicit contracts, layoffs will never occur in equilibrium, regardless of the...

The traditional classroom presentation of international macroeconomic issues obscures the link between budget deficits, exchange rates, and the trade deficit. The article offers a simple supply and demand framework to clarify the role of budget deficits in creating trade deficits...

Implicit contract models of labor market equilibrium under work sharing and layoffs are constructed to examine several common explanations for the observed market bias in favor of layoffs. We first establish the optimality of work sharing in the absence of...

Climate conditions in the Weddell Sea during the Pleistocene can be inferred by examining the abundance of foraminifer species and mineral fragments in ocean sediment cores. In particular, Neogloboquadrina incompta is a useful temperature proxy, and the abundance of terrigenous...

Throughout the 1990s-2000s, the number of international adoptions into the United States increased drastically, reaching a little over 20,000 international adoptions in 2002 with 25% being from China and 9% from South Korea (PRB, 2003). As these adoptees begin to...