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East Branch Of The Cooper River, 1780-1820: Panopticism And Mobility, Lisa Briggitte Randle

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years historical archaeologists have employed the panoptic plantation approach to examine issues of surveillance and control at plantations. Despite new scholarship in the area of the panoptic plantation, few studies place the enslaved laborer at the center and the planter-elite on the periphery. Failure to broaden the scope of studies that focus on enslaved laborers minimizes the importance of the differences in perception, cognition, and landscape between the planter-elite and the enslaved laborers. The aim of this study is to determine potential enslaved laborer mobility and how cognitive predictive models can aid in identifying potential locations for archaeological …

Three Essays On The Effects Of Policies On Price Differentials, Eun Son Lim

Theses and Dissertations

Free Trade Agreements and Purchasing Power Parity: Evidence from South Korea

We explore whether a decline in tariffs after the passage of South Korea’s free trade agreements yields evidence more favorable to purchasing power parity between South Korea and its free trade partners. Our data include two aggregated measures of prices – the CPI and the PPI – as well as disaggregated CPI data for six selected, highly tradable items: food, alcoholic beverages, non-alcoholic beverages, clothing, footwear and tobacco products. We study nine free trade partners using data for the sample period January 1998-November 2017. Utilizing a battery of conventional …

Findlay Stark, Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness And Negligence In The Criminal Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

All Faculty Scholarship

Culpable Carelessness by Findlay Stark is a careful and considered contribution to the 'punishment for negligence' debate. As well as providing a comprehensive overview of the doctrinal and theoretical aspects of recklessness and negligence in the criminal law, it also offers novel insights for scholars already steeped in these debates. An additional methodological strength is that Stark takes seriously the connection between theory and law, offering useful potential jury instructions on recklessness and negligence.

Dangerous Delegation: Explaining The Rationales And Outcomes Of State Sponsorship Of Terrorism Through The Principal-Agent Framework, Jeremy M. Berkowitz

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

State sponsorship of terrorism, where a government deliberately provides resources and material support to a terrorist organization, is common in the international system. By conceptualizing state sponsorship as a relationship between a principal and agent, I develop a consistent theoretical model that explains why states pursue this foreign policy strategy, as well as how they rationally attempt to minimize the inherent risks of delegating to violent non-state actors. I test my model by using a novel dataset on sponsorship behaviors that improves on the range, detail, and temporality of previously used measurements. My dissertation is organized into three distinct papers, …

Durational Cues To Stress, Final Lengthening, And The Perception Of Rhythm, Anya Hogoboom

Arts & Sciences Articles

Binary stress languages have a well-known asymmetry between their tolerance of initial versus final lapse; the former being extremely rare and the latter being quite common. Lunden (to appear) proposes that final lengthening plays a role in this asymmetry, as the additional inherent phonetic duration of the final syllable can contribute to the continuation of a perceived rhythm, even in the absence of actual final stress. She notes this effect of final lengthening should only be available in languages that use duration as a cue to stress. However, some languages are described as having different cues to primary and secondary …

0842: Dr. And Mrs. Daniel Sharkey Greeting Card Collection, 1930-1990, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

The collection consists of over 2,000 pieces of original artwork used by greeting card and calendar companies, and spans the approximate years 1930-1990. Many of the pieces within the collection are labeled with a Norcross stamp or specifications sticker. The Norcross Greeting Card Company was founded in 1914 by Arthur Norcross and his sister, Jane, in New York City. They published greeting cards, and also sold wrapping papers and parchments. After Arthur Norcross' death in 1969, the business floundered and was sold for the first time in 1974. Subsequent sales saw Norcross combined with Rust Craft Company, but this venture …

Byzantine Spirit Of The Undead And Its Legacy In The Sick Man Of Europe, Joan Davison

Faculty Publications

What is the character and extent of the Byzantine political-legal legacy? The contemporary discourse on political institutions uses new language to describe old mechanisms for accommodation and decentralization phenomena: millet systems, internal diasporas, population displacement of enclaves, consociation, asymmetric federalism, and even democracy as a part of modern institutionalized network systems. Employing Michel Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical method, we tap into the undead body of Byzantine political legacy in order to show and extract the legacy of a specific ‘spirit.’ In other words, we identify the existence of a very specific sites which emerges from within a non-Being (in Plato’s …

The Affordable Housing Crisis: City Responses, W Dennis Keating

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

American cities are facing an affordable housing crisis. While the housing situation varies among U.S. cities, there is a national crisis (Stein, 2018). In March, 2018, the National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC)(nlihc.org) issued its report The Gap: A Shortage of Affordable Housing which reported a shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available rentals for extremely low-income renter households. 71% of the lowest income renters are severely house cost-burdened, spending more than half of their limited incomes on housing. The report identified the following five cities as having the most severe shortages of affordable housing: Las Vegas, Orlando, Los Angeles, Houston …

Examining Political, Environmental And Economic Determinants Of Refugee Flows From Mainland China To North And South Countries, Woeser Dolma

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This research examines refugee migration originating from Mainland China to North and South countries, like Australia, United States, United Kingdom, Nepal and India. To analyze refugee flow, I used four different determinants: political, civil, environmental, and economic to isolate the importance of each determinate. The analysis was derived from the gravity model to estimate the flow of refugees. I estimated the random effects model for all three of my models. The empirical analysis demonstrated that PTS and fertility in China were the most significant determinant within developed countries for refugee flow, whereas the most important determinants for developing countries were …

Does Inflation Targeting Matter For Economic Growth During Global Financial Crises? Evidence From Emerging Economies, Kalika Likhi

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper examines the effects of inflation targeting (IT) on output income per capita growth in emerging economies over the period 1990 - 2014, which includes key globalization years and accounts for two of the biggest global financial and economic crises in recent history: the Asian Financial Crisis (1997-99) and the Global Financial Crisis (2007-08). I break down my sample into five geographical regions (the World, Asia, Latin America, Europe and Emerging Market Economies) to account for the regional effects of IT on growth as indicated in previous literature. I employ Fixed-Effects and Random-Effects Models that control for traditional growth …

Shirking And Remaining Years On Players’ Contracts In Major League Baseball, Henry Tizard

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This undergraduate economics thesis is meant to find statistically significant evidence for shirking behavior in Major League Baseball (MLB). Theory suggests that players shirk on effort when they have recently signed a long-term lucrative contract, since there is little incentive to compete when money is guaranteed to the player regardless of current performance. It is particularly important to understand the MLB labor market, since the firms giving out contracts not only have a copious amount of production information regarding their employees, but this data is widely available to the general public. This study will make use of modern sabermetric statistics …

An Examination Of Homelessness And Mental Illness: The Argument For Better Affordable Housing Policy, Alexandra Tremblay-Mcgaw

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

What contributes to the homeless crisis in the United States? Why are some people chronically homeless? How does mental illness impact homelessness? The purpose of this paper is to summarize and critically analyze existing literature and policies regarding the topic of homelessness while specifically focusing on one of the most vulnerable subgroups of the chronically homeless population, the mentally ill. Additionally, San Francisco will be used as a case study in order to determine if the city as a whole fits within the trends explained across the literature reviewed. Policy recommendations are explained in Section 3.

Anti-Transgender Hate Speech And Hate Crime: A Ten-Year Analysis Of The Relationship Between Local Attitudes And Violent Hate Crime, Eli Roehlkepartain

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

Anti-Transgender hate crimes have been on the rise in recent years, but the reasons for this are unclear. The main question this thesis works to answer is: How do state-by-state variations in hate speech, as measured by Google searches for derogatory transgender terminology, relate to hate crimes in that state, as measured by reported hate-motivated murders of transgender people, in the United States from 2008-2017? This analysis utilizes data of reported hate crimes against transgender people, taking into account the identity of that individual, along with the economic, social, and political climate of the state in the year the victim …

Fdi And Economic Growth: A Case Study From China And Africa, Charles Goldberg

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper investigates the long-debated relationship between FDI and economic growth. I use a Solow model framework to analyze this relationship. Further, I use OLS regression analysis to analyze this relationship, specifically between China and Africa. The Chinese-African trade relationship has become dynamic and expansive. I come to the conclusion that FDI doesn’t have a significant effect on economic growth in this case, and further conclude that trade relationships and policy are more important for economic growth, and can aid in determining the future value of an economic structure.

Consumer Awareness Of Electric Vehicles And Global Purchasing Patterns, John Mcelgunn

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of electric vehicle consumer awareness on the subsequent purchasing patterns of consumers across the globe, in conjunction with other macroeconomic variables. For this study EVs have been defined as hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) or plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Data for this study comes from 33 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceanus over the period from 2011 to 2016. Within the field of research surrounding EV adoption, almost all work has been done at the microeconomic level, this study uses a hybrid macroeconomic approach to bridge the gap …

Does Mobile Phone Usage Boost Productivity In Developing Countries?, Fortune Zindi

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

The aim of this study is to assess the impact of mobile phone proliferation on productivity, using data from 73 low-income countries, from the period 2000-2016. The sample includes countries from Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Caribbean. The author's findings show that holding all else constant, a 1 percent increase in mobile penetration rate boosts output per capita by 2.6 percent. These findings confirm there are increasing returns (network effects) to productivity associated with an increase in penetration rate. Results also show that the ease of doing business matters in low-income countries in that it influences the speed at which …

Luxury Tax And Competitive Balance In The Nba, Benjamin Louchheim

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

The NBA is widely known as the least competitively balanced professional sports league in North America. Past literature has shown that as competitive balance declines, so does fan interest and revenues for both individual teams and the league as a whole. In 2003, the NBA implemented a luxury tax,a penalty mechanism that taxes teams who spend above the salary cap, in order to improve competitive balance. Using luxury tax and league level production data from the 1998 to 2016 NBA seasons, and a model that estimates competitive balance, this paper investigates whether the implementation of the luxury tax in 2003 …

The Effect Of Globalization On Educational Attainment, Yizhe Li

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper studies the effect of globalization on educational attainment. Using exports as percentage of GDP and globalization index to measure globalization, I use a series of panel regression models that includes agricultural exports, skilled manufactured exported and low-skilled manufactured exported as explanatory variables of schooling. Using a panel of 63 countries, 47 years (from 1970-2016) and OLS model, my results suggest that reduction in tariff or increasing in exports lead to increase in years of schooling. Moreover, WTO member does not play roles in education achievement. Educational attainment decreases with agriculture exports, low-skill-intensive manufactured exports and skilled manufactured exports.

Nfl Betting Market Efficiency: A Closer Look At The Final Day Of Betting, Shankar Mani

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper utilizes opening and closing betting lines on the day of play in the NFL to investigate if changes in the spread are a result of uninformed bettors. I formulate and empirically test the changes in the spread as they relate to home field advantage, favorites and hot hand betting. The results show that bettors tend to overvalue information and as a result, the actual scores shift less dramatically than the spreads on the final day of betting. A profitable betting strategy can be implemented betting against the shift in the spread. Additionally, it is more profitable to bet …

Can Economic Moats Provide Investors With A Competitive Advantage?, Erik Manditch

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This thesis examines the relationship between competitive advantage and stock performance. Using Morningstar’s economic moat rating classifications, this paper contributes to the competitive advantage literature by providing an empirical assessment of whether wide moat stocks, or companies deemed to have sustainable competitive advantages, made for superior investments compared to non-wide moat stocks over a ten-year time-frame from 2008 to 2017. Additionally, this paper accounts for a previously under-studied topic within the economic moat literature by specifically analyzing three sectors and nine industries. The results indicate that wide moat stocks surprisingly may not make for a superior stock investment, as the …

The Impact Of Climate Change On Agricultural Productivity In The Eastern African Community, Alexia Muhire Nshuti

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

The impact of climate change is noticeable already affecting different sectors: health, social, economic and agriculture. Although climate change impacts countries differently, agriculture is expected to be the most vulnerable sector. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the impact of extreme temperatures on agricultural productivity in the Eastern African Community. The Eastern African Region is chosen as a case study because of its dependence on agriculture. The study observes five countries with available data from 1991 to 2015. The result of the nonlinear temperature regression models shows a significant decrease on grain yields at extreme temperatures and rainfall …

The Short, Medium, And Long-Term Growth Effects Of A Natural Disaster On Economies Within The Ring Of Fire, Erik Reed

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper investigates the economic impacts that natural disasters cause on countries located in the region of the Ring of Fire. Using information from 1960 to 2016, this paper adds to the current literature on the impacts that earthquakes have on economies in the short run, mid-term and long run. Furthermore, this paper investigates specifically developed and developing economies located within this region. The results indicate that overall natural disasters only impact developed economies located within the Ring of Fire in the short run and that only ECONOMIC and SOCIAL factors are the main drivers and hinderers of economic growth …

Should We Stay Or Should We Go? Investigating The Impacts Of Intervention On Post-War Development, Benjamin Rudman

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This study investigates the effects of military intervention in civil wars on post-war development. It was theorized that the characteristics of the intervention would influence the effects on development in different ways, and looks into its effects on three types of development: economic, social, and political. This paper looks at the effects of the regime-type of the intervener, the recipient of the intervention, the number of interveners, and whether the intervening state is neighboring the country in conflict or if it is from the same region. Results support the paper’s theory, finding that different characteristics of intervention had different effects …

The Effect Of Injuries On Player And Team Performance: An Empirical Analysis Of The Production Function In The National Hockey League, Ryan Warnock

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper analyzes the effect that injuries have on team performance in the National Hockey League (NHL) and on the production of the individual athlete. By using player level statistics and team level performance metrics from the 2013/2014 through the 2016/2017 NHL seasons, my analysis adds to the current production function literature in sports economics by incorporating injury data to put forth a more comprehensive production frontier. My results suggest that there is a statistically significant negative effect on both team performance, and on individual production when players are injured. This paper begins by employing a probit regression model to …

The Value Of Bitcoin: A Closer Look At How Investor Attention Affects The Value Of Bitcoin, Joseph Warner

Economics Student Theses and Capstone Projects

This paper looks at two measure of the value of Bitcoin (the price and volume traded in the last month of Bitcoin) and sees if investor attention causes any changes in the values of Bitcoin. This paper also adds exchange rates, the S&P 500, and the price of gold as other possible explanations for the value of Bitcoin. This paper examines the variables at a worldwide level and at the countries with the top 10 GDP in the world. The results of this paper find that investor attention has a significant positive relationship with the value of Bitcoin. Specifically at …

Affect And Political Satire: How Political Tv Satire Implicates Internal Political Efficacy And Political Participation, Reed Ramsey

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Research has shown that political satire programs offer both important information about contemporary politics and offer very humorous, entertaining content. This study seeks to understand how these satire programs bolster both internal political efficacy and political

participation. 400 college students at two Northern California universities participated in this research. The study found that affinity for political humor can predict levels of internal political efficacy. Exposure to liberal satire was negatively correlated with affinity for political humor and political participation, and exposure to conservative satire was significantly correlated with internal political efficacy. Internal political efficacy was also positively correlated with political …

Juvenile Probation Officers' Attitudes And Treatment Toward “Bad Girls”, Lisa Shelton

Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations

Adolescent girls have a reputation for being the most undesirable population to work with in the judicial and correctional systems. This reputation is largely due to the heavy stigmatization of juvenile girls who do not behave in ways that are consistent with traditional standards of femininity. In this study, I examine probation officers’ interactions with their juvenile clients. I closely noted differences and similarities in the treatment given to boys and girls and where various strategies tend to be either beneficial or unsuccessful.

Public Places And Empty Spaces: Dislocation, Urban Renewal And The Death Of A French Plaza, Roza Tchoukaleyska

Geography & Environment Publications

This article examines the dislocations produced when competing understandings of public space come into contact. Focusing on Montpellier, France, where an urban renewal program has seen portions of the city-centre renovated, the article considers the breaking apart of a North African commercial cluster under the guide of French heritage protection. Arguing that such action is tiedto municipal urban politics and wider trajectories that place diverse identities in a separate category, I trace the process through which a plaza encompassed in the urban renewal program has been labelled as “empty” and “dead” space. Suggesting that the relocation of a well-used outdoor …

Perón And The Argentine Paradox: An Investigation Into An Economic Mystery, Antonio Luis Gansley-Ortiz

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The Zambian Consensus, Stefan Jan Briggs

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.