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Dead Man\u27s Cell Phone (2015) | Image 031
No full textPerformed: 15-18, 22-25 October 2015; Sarah Ruhl\u27s Dead Man\u27s Cell Phone explores the paradox of modern technology\u27s ability to both unite and isolate people in a digital age. The play was student directed by Savannah Jones, scenic design by Jason St. John, costume design by Meg McCrina, and lighting design by Keera Mitchell. Access to this digital image was provided by JSU Department of Theatre and Film.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/productions_images/10568/thumbnail.jp
Modeling Great Depressions: The Depression in Finland in the 1990s
Get PDFThis paper is a primer on the great depressions methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999, 2007) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002, 2007). We use growth accounting and simple dynamic general equilibrium models to study the depression that occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990-93 was driven by a combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and increases in government consumption during 1989-94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop in TFP in variants of the model with an investment sector and with terms-of-trade shocks but are unsuccessful.
Modeling great depressions: the depression in Finland in the 1990s
Get PDFThis article is a primer on the great depressions methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999, 2007) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002, 2007). We use growth accounting and simple dynamic general equilibrium models to study the depression that occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990?93 was driven by a combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990?92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and increases in government consumption during 1989?94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop in TFP in variants of the model with an investment sector and with terms-of-trade shocks but are unsuccessful.Depressions
Modeling great depressions: the depression in Finland in the 1990s
Get PDFThis paper is a primer on the great depressions methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999, 2007) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002, 2007). We use growth accounting and simple dynamic general equilibrium models to study the depression that occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990?93 was driven by a combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990?92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and increases in government consumption during 1989?94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop in TFP in variants of the model with an investment sector and with terms-of-trade shocks but are unsuccessful.Depressions
Reply to the Comment on “Astronomical constraints on the duration of the Early Jurassic Pliensbachian Stage and global climatic fluctuations” (Ruhl et al., Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 455 (2016) 149–165)
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The Myth of What Is Inevitable under Ecosystem Management: A Response to Pardy
Get PDFIn this article, the author responds to Professor Bruce Pardy\u27s article, Changing Nature: The Myth of the Inevitability of Ecosystem Management, which appeared in Pace Environmental Law Review\u27s Spring 2003 Edition. The author criticizes Pardy\u27s characterization of change nature policy and, as an advocate of Ecosystem Management, seeks to posit his views on the policy
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Essays on international trade
Get PDFtextThis dissertation consists of three essays pertaining to the causes of the levels and composition of the international trade flows of nations, and the consequential implications for the levels of per capita income and welfare of their populations. The first of these documents a pattern of comparative advantage in product level, bilateral trade data that conventional quantitative trade models have difficulty explaining. It goes on to develop a theory of product level productivity differences based on endogenous differences in the allocation of research and development into product and process innovation across countries over time, and it shows that, when fitted to cross-country manufacturing wage data, the predicted product level technology distribution is consistent with the observed trade pattern.
The second essay shows that the distribution of technology levels inferred in the first essay can help explain the inability of both ad-hoc and theoretically based gravity models of trade to account for the observed positive correlation between the percentage of manufacturing output that is traded and countries' per capita income. It derives a modified gravity equation based on a Ricardian model of trade with deterministic product level technology differences across countries. It then uses estimates from a product level gravity estimation to compute the component of this equation that differs from a conventional gravity equation in order to determine the extent to which the observed concentration of comparative advantage in a common set of products for low-income countries explains the small percentage of their output that is exported.
The final essay shows that a simple model of firm profit maximization in the presence of sunk costs of entering the export market is broadly consistent with the observed persistence of exporting behavior in firm level data. It uses this simple model and moments from data on US manufacturing firms to estimate the value of the sunk export entry costs faced by these firms using an indirect inference strategy. These costs are shown to be substantial relative the revenue stream of a typical firm.Economic
Brasília oder London?: Regierungsarchitekturen zwischen Ordnung und Konflikt
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Equitable Apportionment of Ecosystem Services: New Water Law for a New Water Age
Get PDFThis article is an edited and annotated version of remarks delivered by the author at the FSU College of Law\u27s forum on The Future of the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-FlinRt iver System: Legal, Policy, and Scientific Issues, held on November 5, 2003. The purpose of the article is to suggest that the greater understanding we have today of the role ecological processes play in delivering tremendous economic value to human populations demands that the law recognize these important ecosystem services as a critical factor in the interstate water apportionment calculus. The author makes this point in the context of the dispute over the Appalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River System ( ACF ). The author explains that the water wars (disputes over interstate water allocation) have moved East. Will the East simply import interstate allocation law as it has been shaped in the West, or will it forge a new water law for a new water age? The author suggests the latter, proposing that the East mold water law to meet the ecological realities of its great river systems. The author concludes that for Florida to prevail in the ACF dispute, it must urge the Court to consider the full import of Idaho v. Oregon to make its equitable apportionment jurisprudence align with the real reason we care about water – its ecosystem service values
From comic to graphic and from book to novel: Sandman’s invisible authors and the quest for literariness.
Get PDFThe comic book is dead – long live the graphic novel! These words might make a fitting epitaph for the British-American comics industry’s development during the twentieth century. During this time the discourse around comics publishing and the books themselves have undergone a series of aesthetic, commercial, conceptual and cultural changes. This talk will explore the move towards bookishness and literariness in contemporary British-American comics, using DC Vertigo’s Sandman series (Gaiman et al, 1989-present) as a case study. Sandman is best remembered for its mythological content and literary allusions, and these elements have allowed it to claim its place as a canonised graphic novel by both academics and fans. This paper compares the discourses that surround the comic and reflects on both text and paratext to draw out some of the contradictions that emerge when we approach graphic novels as solely literary artefacts. It begins by revisiting the launch and original run of Sandman (1989-1996) as the flagship title for DC’s Vertigo imprint back in the 1990s. Vertigo contributed to the cultural revaluation of comics as graphic novels by placing an emphasis on the author function and offering a critical and aesthetic distance from DC’s other publications. It counters the literary paratexts around Sandman by exploring its visual elements: considering the multiplicity of these (collage, multiple artists) and arguing that this matched the diversity of the comic’s content and raised its critical profile. It extends this examination to Sandman: Overture (2013-15). It argues that Sandman enacts the particular status struggles of the collaborative comics medium against the ‘graphic novel’ brand. It concludes by mapping its findings back onto the processes and changes at work in comics today, and reflecting on what this means for definitions of cultural worth, the performativity of the author function, and our understanding of artistic creation and ownership
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