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Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

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Price collusion in an infinitely repeated Hotelling duopoly

Publication Date
1998-August-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Powers, Jonathan
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper explores the effect product differentiation has on the ability of firms to collude in setting prices. It is often thought that product differentiation can be an impediment to collusion. However, the results in this paper suggest that product...

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Tuskegee and the Health of Black Infants

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Brody, Benjamin
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

For nearly half a century, the American government funded the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male." As the name suggests, this experiment abused black men from Alabama and required medical professionals to withhold care from the test...

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