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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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Convergence among the U.S. states: Absolute, conditional, or club?

Publication Date
2003-October-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Johnson, Paul A.
Takeyama, Lisa N.
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper attempts to ascertain which of the convergence hypotheses – absolute, conditional, or club – best describes the economic development of the U.S. states since 1950. We use regression tree analysis to identify convergence clubs among the states and...

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Queer Hermeneutics for an Unbound Temporality: Schools as Passageway

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Murphy, Andrew Thomas
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

Queer theorists have posited that normativity is involved in a spatial practice. American society has taken great care to assign different levels of value to different identities as well as to the time and space they inhabit. Inequitable structures of...

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Stabilizing the international financial system and financing development: an analysis of the Tobin tax

Publication Date
2007-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Edoardo Raviol
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper analyzes the feasibility of an international tax on currency transaction, also known as "Tobin Tax", from an economic and juridical point of view. The claim that such a tax would curb short term speculators, thus stabilizing the foreign...

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Stabilizing the international financial system and financing development: an analysis of the Tobin tax

Publication Date
2007-December-01
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Edoardo Raviol
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper analyzes the feasibility of an international tax on currency transaction, also known as "Tobin Tax", from an economic and juridical point of view. The claim that such a tax would curb short term speculators, thus stabilizing the foreign...

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