Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

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.

A classroom experiment on exchange rate determination with purchasing power parity

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2007-February-01
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We develop a classroom experiment on exchange rate determination appropriate for undergraduate courses in macroeconomics and international economics. Students represent citizens from different countries and need to obtain currency to purchase goods. By participating in a sealed bid auction to...

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A general-equilibrium analysis of public policy for pharmaceutical prices

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2005-January-01
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Retail sales of prescription drugs totaled $154.5 billion in 2001. The National Institute for Health Care Management estimates annual sales will exceed $400 billion by the year 2010. This paper analyzes the welfare and distributional effects of two policy families...

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College-aged women on Instagram: an analysis of gender and social media

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2017-January-01
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Through an analysis of gender and image theory as well as data gathered through survey, coding and interviews, I sought to explore how twenty-first century women both perform femininity through social media and challenge gendered stereotypes while doing so. I...

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Intergenerational strategic behavior and crowding out in a general equilibrium model

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2005-October-01
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The return of large government budget deficits should encourage us to resume analysis of their effects. Two topics deserving further attention are the importance of correctly modeling the form of intergenerational relationships and clarification of the extent to which deficits...

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Ricardian equivalence survives strategic behavior

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2004-October-01
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Robert Barro (1974) showed government debt has no real effects when generations are linked by altruistically motivated intergenerational transfers, a result now known widely as the Ricardian Equivalence Theorem.
An important condition for debt neutrality is believed to be the...

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Senior Recital: Chelsea Skye Yamada, soprano

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2014-April-26
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Chelsea Skye Yamada, soprano, assisted by Thomas Sauer, piano; Kevin Lee (VC 2014), violin; Sofia Macht (VC 2014), violin; Maria Ichizawa (VC 2014), viola; and William Leith (VC 2014), cello

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Using NAICS to identify national industry cluster templates for applied regional analysis

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2006-December-16
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Whereas FESER and BERGMAN, 2000, developed the concept of national-level cluster templates and introduced a systematic methodology to identify such clusters, their technique and results were based on the now-outdated Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system for categorizing industries. We update...

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