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Essays on Conflict
(Georgetown University, 2012)
These two essays use game theoretic models to examine factors contributing to conflicts within and between countries. The first chapter models alliance formation and investment in conflict in a society which can be divided ...
Essays on Competition in Electricity Markets
(Georgetown University, 2012)
The first chapter shows how technology decisions affect entry in commodity markets with oligopolistic competition, like the electricity market. I demonstrate an entry deterrence effect that works through cost uncertainty. ...
Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics
(Georgetown University, 2012)
Chapter 1 is intended to analyze the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion in a Mirrleesian framework. We first develop a static Mirrlees' optimal nonlinear income tax model to study how increased ...
Essays on Quantitative Macroeconomics of Default
(Georgetown University, 2012)
This dissertation consists of two essays, which study agents' default under dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with heterogenous agents and financial intermediaries who charge a risk premium corresponding to the ...
The Education and Social Justice Project: International Summer Research Fellowships 2011
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2012-02-06)
The Education and Social Justice Project provides a select group of students with summer research fellowships to travel abroad for in-depth examinations of innovative initiatives in Jesuit secondary and post-secondary ...
Water and Faith: Rights, Pragmatic Demands, and an Ethical Lens
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2012-03-01)
Prepared jointly by the Berkley Center and WFDD, this report reviews the roles that faith-inspired leaders, communities, and organizations play in worldwide efforts to assure universal access to clean water and sanitation. ...
Strategies for Peace: Transforming Conflict in a Diverse World
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2012-10-24)
This report is the result of a semester’s worth of reading, investigation, and research into strategies for establishing durable peace and security in the global political context of upheaval, transition, and violence. ...
Water and Faith: Rights, Pragmatic Demands, and an Ethical Lens
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2012-03-01)
Prepared jointly by the Berkley Center and WFDD, this report reviews the roles that faith-inspired leaders, communities, and organizations play in worldwide efforts to assure universal access to clean water and sanitation. ...
Junior Year Abroad Network Annual Report 2010-2011
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2012-01-24)
The Junior Year Abroad Network (JYAN) connects study abroad students in a global conversation on religion, politics, and culture. Fifty-five Hoyas in 24 countries on five continents – from Chile to Egypt to China – share ...
Diverse, Disillusioned, and Divided: Millennial Values and Voter Engagement in the 2012 Election
(Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, 2012-10-04)
A joint effort between the Berkley Center and the Public Religion Research Institute, the timely survey explores how 18-25 year-olds view values, politics, and the 2012 election. The survey provides new insights about the ...