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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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Does Speculation Make Commodity Spot Markets More Volatile?

Publication Date
2022-May-02
Authors
Cao, Yixiao Carl
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This paper examines how increased speculator participation in the commodity
futures market affects spot price volatility. Consistent with results from the
majority of existing literature on this subject, I find no evidence that speculators
destabilize the commodity spot market. More...

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Donor influence in Multilateral Development Banks: the case of the Asian Development Bank

Publication Date
2006-January-19
Document Type
working paper
Authors
Kilby, Christopher
Department or Program
Economics Department
Document Type
Working Paper
Abstract

This paper explores the influence of Japan and the United States over the geographic distribution of Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds. Although nominally an independent, multilateral organization, the ADB is widely regarded as bowing to the interests of its two...

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Dream Weaver

Publication Date
2024-May-12
Authors
Sophie "Xia" Lai
Department or Program
Art Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This is the Senior Project of Sophie "Xia" Lai, class of 2024. The project contains five hand bound books: The original, three small copies, and one large copy. The non-linear graphic novel is created from visualizations from their dream journal...

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Duelling and the Fantasmatic Spectre of Male Honour in Imperial Germany: The Kaiser’s Will and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest

Publication Date
2022-May-15
Authors
Schneider, Jeffrey
Department or Program
German Studies Department
Global Nineteenth-Century Studies Program
Women, Feminist and Queer Studies Program
Document Type
Article
Access Level
Open
Abstract

Underneath the historiographical disagreements about military honor and dueling in Imperial Germany there lurks a consensus that most duelists simply internalized the dictates of honor. This article troubles that presumption by attending to the Prussian-German military honor code’s mixed messages...

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