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Program, Chicago Club of Women Organists, April 6, 1942, Including a Performance of a Work by Florence Price
Concert Program hosted by the Chicago Club of Women Organists, April 6, 1942. Florence Price played her "Suite No. 1 for Organ."CHICAGO CLUB OF WOMEN ORGANISTS
Presents
An Organ Recital
"Compositions of Our Members"
Monday Evening, April 6th, 1942 8:15 o'clock
at
GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1442 Indiana Avenue
.........PROGRAM ............
ORGAN - Suite No. 1 for Organ .....................Florence B. Price
Fantasy
Fughetta
Air
Toccata
FLORENCE B. PRICE
VOCAL - "The Master and the Trees"........................Grace Darrow
"Hast Thou not Known?"................Frances Frothingham
GILBERT FORD - Tenor Mary Ruth Craven at the organ
VOCAL - "Home" (Lyrics by Harriet Williams)...........Ora Bogan
"Humility" (Lyrics by L. T. Knudson).......Ora Bogan
BERTHA HAFFARD - Soprano Ora Bogan at the organ
ORGAN -
Dance of the Gulls (Composed 1930) Lily Moline-Hallam Dedicated to Alice R. Deal
Allegretto (Composed 1916) .......................Lily Moline-Hallam
Dedicated to William E. Zeuch
Osannare (Composed 1929) ...........................Lily Moline-Hallam
Dedicated to Edwin Stanley Seder ALICE R. DEAL
Vivian Martin Edith Miller
President Corresponding Secretary
Grace Symons Program Chairman
A reception in the church parlors will follow the program You and your friends are most cordially invited to attend
Entrance to the Church may be made through the St. Luke's Hospital, 1439 South Michigan Avenue. Members of the Courtesy Committee will be at the door to direct you
Price Adjustment with Price Conjectures
We derive a measure of firm speed of price adjustment that is directly inversely related to market power and compare this to the measure derived by Martin (1993). However, both measures are incorrect when firms have price conjectural variations. This is because Taylor expansions of the demand function implicitly assume that firms influence the level of competing prices in a way that is consistent with their conjecturesPrice adjustment; market power; conjectural variations
Authors on the Hill presents: Thomas R. Martin
Thomas R. Martin is the Jeremiah O’Connor Professor in Classics. As an undergraduate he studied abroad in Rome and earned his AB degree at Princeton University; as a graduate student he studied abroad in Athens and earned his PhD at Harvard University. He currently teaches courses on ancient Greek and Latin language and literature, Alexander the Great and Asia, and democracy and rhetoric. His scholarly publications concern a range of topics in ancient Greek and Latin historical authors and Greek and Roman history. Prof. Martin is also one of the founders of the online Perseus Project and the author of its overview of ancient Greek history. He has appeared in a number of video and recorded programs on ancient Greece and Rome. [See the list on pp. 11-12 in his current CV.] His most recent book is Phocion: Good Citizen in a Divided Democracy (Yale Univ. Press, 2024). Written for readers who are interested in the early development of democracy, but who are not specialists in ancient history, the book explores the lessons that we can today learn from thinking about the long and ultimately disastrous political career of the Athenian leader Phocion (ca. 402-318 BCE). Prof. Martin asks how and why Phocion initially became famous and influential among his fellow citizens at Athens, but then ended up being blamed and executed as a national traitor during the period of Athenians’ fall from being a leading international power and of the violent fracturing of their renowned “direct democracy.”https://crossworks.holycross.edu/aoth/1022/thumbnail.jp
Benefits of a Classification Scheme of Granitic Pegmatites Based on Petrogenetic Considerations.
Oral presentation-
Communicating author: Martin RF
Price support at any price? Costs and benefits of alternative agricultural policies for Poland
The author argues that Poland must choose an agricultural policy that promotes efficiency, structural change, and adjustment to the new market environment and eventual membership in the European Union. That policy must take into account both the needs of, and the financial constraints on, Polish agriculture. Results of simulation experiments performed with the use of the computable general equilibrium model of the Polish economy suggest that Common Agricultural Policy-type price supports are not the most efficient agricultural policy for Poland. The author discusses alternative policies and scenarios. Rather than discuss whether the relationship between farmers'incomes and average Polish wages is fair, the author analyzes whether medium- and long-term development trends in the Polish economy may cause this relationship to deteriorate, and what policies will counteract those trends. Rapid growth in the nonagricultural sectors combined with real appreciation of domestic currency (caused either through good current account performance or significant capital inflows) may jeopardize farmers'relative income position. And such developments are probable if positive projections for economic development and membership in the European Union are realized. The agricultural sector can defend its relative income only by becoming more efficient. Price supports improve farmers'relative income but at a high cost to taxpayers and consumers and to macroeconomic efficiency. To meet these costs, Poland must put in place firm quantity controls. But the author thinks that the best strategy would be to avoid price supports until the moment of joining the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. In the interim, policies aimed at reducing farm employment seem most appropriate. The author discusses two such policies: encouraging older farmers to retire and promoting jobs in rural areas. He also proposes two feasible scenarios for integrating Polish agriculture with that of the European Union by 2005-10.Markets and Market Access,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets
WHY IS AMAZONITIC K-FELDSPAR AN EARMARK OF NYF-TYPE GRANITIC PEGMATITES?
Oral presentation- Communicating author: Martin R
Relative prices and inflation in Poland, 1989-97 : the special role of administered price increases
The author evaluates how much relative price shifts affected inflation in Poland between 1989 and 1997. He uses a theoretical model that predicts a positive relationship between variance and skewness in the distribution of relative price changes and the general inflation rate. Regressions controlling for various shocks revealed that significant relative price changes -- especially the large administered price increases associated with adjustment -- produced substantial upward inflationary pressures. Growth in money and wages were shown to fuel inflation. Appreciation of the real exchange rate lowered it. Administered price increases -- in utilities and other sectors controlled by the government -- dominated inflation from 1989-97. And the adjustment of many controlled prices is not yet complete. Ideally, future administered increases should be frequent and moderate to prevent the large price shifts that increase inflation. But because frequent price increases are likely to be politically unpopular, sizable increases may be in order so that the current underevaluation of numerous services will diminish more quickly.Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform,Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Markets and Market Access,Environmental Economics&Policies,Markets and Market Access,Access to Markets,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies,Inflation
Export restrictions and price insulation during commodity price booms
For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the resulting collective action problem, with the policy being ineffective on average in stabilizing domestic prices while increasing the volatility of the income transfers from terms-of-trade changes. A simple approach to assessing the contribution of insulation to the price increases is developed and used with new estimates of agricultural distortions to assess its contribution to the price spikes in 1972-74 and 2006-08 for rice and wheat. The analysis suggests that 45 percent of the increase in rice prices in 2006-08, and 30 percent of the increase in wheat prices, was due to insulating behavior. One sign of progress since 1972-74 was a substantial reduction in the extent of price-insulating behavior by the industrial countries. This provides little stabilizing benefit in the rice market because countries not classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it does offer some benefit for the wheat market where non-developing countries account for 27 percent of consumption.Markets and Market Access,Emerging Markets,Access to Markets,E-Business,Commodities
Intercommodity price transmittal : analysis offood markets in Ghana
This report expands on a dynamic model of market integration to investigate how information is transmitted across commodities. The author investigates one property of an efficient market : the full use of available information. Studies of spatial price integration simultaneously looks at the flow of information and commodities. The author investigates the flow of information within a single spatial market and the relationship between prices in spatially separate markets. He studies intercommodity price transmittal from two perspectives. First, he asks whether the government can concentrate on a single commodity price, yet achieve policy objectives in a broader arena. This is important in Ghana because no single commodity dominates consumers'food budgets. The author finds that price movements for the main cereal consumed in the country (maize) are fully transmitted to other regions. Second, he investigates the working of commodity markets in developing countries. He notes imperfections in the way markets process information. There are several possible explanations for this market inefficiency. Traders may set prices for other coarse grains in response to information about maize prices. Another possibility is that some traders may not deal in all grains and thus have different costs of acquiring information. In short the author's dynamic model of price integration indicates functional efficiency in Ghana.Access to Markets,Markets and Market Access,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Agricultural Research
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Both spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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