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Erasure
No full text“Erasure” is a six minute experimental dream film. The film features a protagonist who engages with his personal demons, for better or worse
Interest Rate Setting Behavior in the Philippines
Get PDFThis paper examines the recent conduct of monetary policy in the Philippines and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) interest rate setting behavior. In this paper, I use a standard open economy reaction function to see whether the BSP reacts more to changes in the inflation rate, exchange rate, and or the output gap. I find that in the Philippines, the interest rate responds strongly to exchange rates. Furthermore, interest rates are less consistently explained by inflation and more accurately explained by exchange rates. This tends to suggest that the BSP goes against its inflation targeting strategy and supports a stable exchange rate system. Evidence also suggests that the BSP’s response to core inflation is higher and more accurately explains the interest rate setting behavior. However, the relationship does not exceed that of changes in the exchange rate
A Reflective Intervention
No full textA Reflective Intervention is an interactive documentary which documents and engages individuals about their core beliefs, reflecting on generational shifts in ideas and practices. This project invites young people belonging to Generation Z to define their most salient core beliefs. In their own words, they reflect on the beliefs they wish to embody and pass along to generations to come. Often, the core beliefs or guiding principles that we hold are what help us understand how to adjudicate what is right or wrong, whether or not we believe in a higher power, and decide what impact we wish to leave on the world.
Historically, institutions of organized religion served as a foundational source for modeling and imposing core beliefs on the masses. However, the relationships young people in the United States currently have with these institutions has changed, and this project looks at the ways this change has shifted the core beliefs or guiding principles of Generation Z’.
Rather than this conversation be facilitated and defined by marketing teams, researchers, and psychologists, A Reflective Intervention is a call for these young voices to take up space and ownership in a conversation that is about and for them. I welcome you to take your time as you listen, watch, and click through the themes and individuals embedded in its pages
Legacies of American Slavery in the South: An Analysis of White Racial Resentment Towards African Americans
Get PDFThis study aims to explore whether the historical institution of slavery in the United States is manifested in contemporary white racial resentment towards African Americans through engaging institutional replication, racial threat, and intergroup contact theories. Present differences in the residential integration of blacks and whites at the county-level is hypothesized to be a mediating factor in the relation between the presence of slavery in 1860 and attitudinal measures of current white racial resentment. This study analyzes three distinct sources of data: the proportion of slaves in 1860 counties is derived from the U.S. Census Bureau, black-white dissimilarity indices are calculated from the 2017 five-year American Community Survey estimates, and racial resentment along with the demographic variables of this study are derived from the 2018 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (n = 10,880). The population of inquiry is narrowed so as only to involve data on the antebellum and postbellum South. While the present findings do not reveal a statistically significant association between slave legacy and white racial resentment, and black-white integration is nonsignificant, this study shows that conservative political ideology is a potent determinant of white racial resentment across all statistical analyses, consistent with insights of prior research. Holding constant all other variables, education, religious affiliation variables, and age impact white racial resentment. These results illuminate the grip of political ideology in the current era on attitudes related to race and provide fruitful foundation for further research
Estimating the role of question framing in contingent valuation: a study of business owners’ willingness to pay for increased conservation in the Great Barrier Reef region
Get PDFUsing the contingent valuation method, this study estimates the willingness to pay of business owners involved in the ecotourism industry for increased conservation of the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia. A survey was distributed to the population of interest via a web survey to not only determine the sample’s willingness to pay, but to also determine if question framing had an effect on the responses and if there were other factors that influenced the results. Focus is placed on business owners in this region because of their stake in the health of the Great Barrier Reef. The results of this study indicate that respondents express different willingness to pay values when they take on either an altruistic or individualistic viewpoint and that willingness to pay is not impacted by age, race, education, gender, or political affiliation
