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Otherworldly Goods
This thesis presents "democratic" art. As defined by the author, democratic art is work that does not bear the idiosyncratic mark of the artist's hand. It is hoped that such work remains more fully open to the viewer's imaginative involvement than work that bears a more overt trace of authorship. …
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Damaged Goods
Art is a form of expression. When used as a channel for emotional catharsis from trauma, it facilitates healing. Research has found that victims of childhood trauma often cannot find words to express their feelings, and are paralyzed and unable to move on with their lives after trauma. My research …
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Movement of heterogeneous goods and people.
… of substitution between home and foreign goods. I take a different approach on both fronts, modeling plants as heterogeneous and calibrating the elasticities to match estimated markups in each sector. I introduce these features by adapting a \citeasnoun{hop92} model of plant entry and exit …
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… a central theme on Hispanic inflows and public goods provision. The first paper investigates how Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for Hispanic …
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Information and Markets for Credence Goods
… how imperfect information about credence goods impacts consumer welfare. Since consumers do not notice a change in quality of a credence good, a non-optimal consumption choice is made which impacts consumer welfare. I develop a framework to account for the welfare effects of consumer …
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Export of engineering goods from India.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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Strategic goods provision in Hezbollah's resistance
The provision of goods and services is thought to be a key way that groups are able to gain political power. However, current work has offered a highly fragmentary view of what specific gains can be made with what type of goods provision, and what potential interaction between strategies might …
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Investigations into effectively moving people and goods
… investigate practical methods to move people and goods effectively on the road network. In the first part of this thesis, we focus on route guidance for the movement of people while in the second part we focus on the movement of goods by investigating the two main aspects of service network design: …
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A Multi-Group Public Goods Game Experiment
… of the standard finitely repeated public goods game. Our results from four treatments suggest that the multi-group setting indeed raises overall cooperation and dampens the impact of free-riders.</p>
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Innovative Goods Distribution at the Human Scale
… design and, more specifically, of urban goods distribution. Through a variety of design-research based methodologies, it has been shown that the use of a modern breed of cargobikes, with roots in the 19th century, can provide a human-scale goods distribution model with a seamless fit in …
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Essays in the Theory of Public Goods
Finally, a tax competition model is proposed to study the impact of Pigouvian pollution taxes on the location and output decisions of freely mobile firms. In the model, capital is characterized as either polluting or nonpolluting and then regional planners are permitted to independently select tax …
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Brake-Actuated Steering of Heavy Goods Vehicles
Large-scale adoption of higher capacity vehicles in road freight transport can significantly improve transport productivity and reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. To date, their adoption in the UK is limited by their reduced low-speed manoeuvrability. Active rear-steering …
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Forward buying of non-commodity consumer goods
… and futures markets in non-commodity consumer goods. Benefits of information gleaned from the sale of products for future delivery are examined, as well as the market for wine futures, which serves as an example of a non-commodity futures market. Analysis is conducted by controlled experiments …
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Pricing strategies for continuous replenishment perishable goods
… of continuous replenishment perishable goods. I begin with a discussion of Dynamic Pricing models, and select a mixed integer programming formulation as most applicable to the available systems and data of the target company. Cost formulations are built through a detailed analysis of …
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Choosing transportation alternatives for highly perishable goods
… a transportation alternative to ship perishable goods is dependent on several interconnected factors, the most important usually being speed of delivery. This study focuses on the distribution operation of Tyco Healthcare's (THC's) nuclear medicine group in the continental United States. It …
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Essays on Internet markets and information goods
… "Renting versus Selling Durable Information Goods", studies whether a monopoly producer of a durable information good should sell or rent its good to consumers. We study whether the producer obtains a higher profit under a selling strategy or a renting strategy. Our analysis shows that the …
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Justice, Sanctioning, and Retaliation In Public Goods Dilemmas
<p>The problem of collective action occurs when individual and collective interests are at odds. Actors in social dilemmas are typically confronted with two choices: to cooperate with group interests, often at some expense of self-interest, or to free-ride off others' cooperation. A dilemma thus …
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New product screening in fast moving consumer goods
… screening in international fast moving consumer goods companies. It further builds on the existing literature by measuring decision-making relating to projects in 'real time', as managers' responses refer to projects they are currently working on. The introduction of branded consumer products …
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Post-Soviet ethnic politics and public goods provision
What explains the pattern of public goods distribution across ethnic groups in the states of the former Soviet Union? In this dissertation, I seek to demonstrate how the unique pattern of nation-state formation in the former Soviet states interacts with other institutional legacies in a manner that …
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