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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Beauty contests"”.
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Memories of Motherland: Gender, Diaspora and National Identity in 1990s Indian Popular Culture
… national identity and family. Recent Indian beauty queens and international beauty contests are discussed in the context of gendered nationhood in 1990s India. Several popular films of the 1990s are discussed as narratives expressing longing for an extended family and a homogeneous national …
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Essays in macroeconomics : information and financial markets
… DSGE models. Earlier lessons that were based on "beauty contests" (Morris and Shin, 2002) are found to be inapplicable. Instead, the social value of information is shown to hinge on essentially the same conditions as the optimality of output stabilization policies. More precise information is …
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Bounded Rationality in Macroeconomics
… predictions in a class of generalized beauty contests, which we apply to study the implications of imperfect optimization for financial speculation and price-setting. The third chapter, “Managing Expectations: Instruments vs. Targets” (jointly authored with George-Marios Angeletos), …
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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
Child beauty pageants are a phenomenon in rural communities throughout Georgia. My belief is that most of those who compete in these pageants are from the lower socio-economic bracket, participating for a multitude of reasons. A bricolage of post-structural feminism, critical ethnography, critical …