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[Exhibition] Votes for Women: Vassar and the Politics of Women's Suffrage

Publication Date
2024-January-09
Authors
Cohen, Miriam, 1950-
Seidl, Mark
Department or Program
Vassar College Libraries
History Department
Document Type
Archived Website
Access Level
Open
Abstract

2020 marked the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. That victory had been the goal of suffrage activists since the middle of the 19th century and was the result of countless...

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Limited arbitrage, segmentation, and investor heterogeneity: Why the law of one price so often fails

Publication Date
2003-August-28
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Flynn, Sean Masaki
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

There are numerous examples of assets with identical payout streams being priced differently. These violations of the law of one price result from two factors. First, investors have heterogeneous asset valuations so that if two groups of investors trade in...

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The portfolio allocation effects of investor sentiment about the ability of managers to beat the market

Publication Date
2003-February-03
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Flynn, Sean Masaki
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

I present a model that can transform discounts on closed-end mutual funds into a measure of investor sentiment about the ability of fund managers to beat the market. This measure of sentiment varies positively with capital flows into actively managed...

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