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The Parthenon, October 28, 2005, Marshall University

The Parthenon

No abstract provided.

Oil Paintings, Digital Imagery Exhibit, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Christian Angelo Ricco's oil painting portraits and Jenny Kimball's digital images, captured with a flat bed scanner and printed on silk, will be featured at the UMM Humanities Fine Arts Gallery.

Copc Grant Forges Partnership, University Relations

Campus News Archive

A recent visit from the Minnesota Design Team is but one phase of a partnership between Morris residents and the University of Minnesota, Morris thanks to a nearly $400,000, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

An Evening Of Opera And Operatic Scenes, October 28, 2005, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Center for the Performing Arts
Friday-Saturday
October 28-29, 2005
8:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concert: Halloween Brass Bash, October 28, 2005, School Of Music

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
Friday Evening
October 28, 2005
8:00 p.m.

Marc Broussard Brings Soulful Music To Iwu, Leslie Boelter

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

October 28, 2005 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

SWOSU Faculty Senate October 28, 2005 Approved Minutes

The Eastern Echo, October 28, 2005, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

Modeling Hurricane Evacuation Vulnerability: A Case Study Of Pinellas County, Florida, Raymond A. Miller Jr.

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Determining where people are most likely to suffer losses and have difficulty in evacuating from a hurricane is important to developing a hurricane response strategy. This thesis proposes a methodology for modeling and assessing evacuation vulnerability to a specific hurricane and applies this method to study Pinellas County, Florida.

The vulnerability of Pinellas County to evacuation problems and the degree of loss that may be suffered from a hurricane is quantified in the Hurricane Evacuation Vulnerability Index. This index is the sum of three indices that represent social, transportation, and geophysical aspects of hazards research. Social vulnerability is assessed with …

Montana Kaimin, October 28, 2005, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

2005-2006 Performance Forum - October 28, 2005, Daisuke Sasaki, Yang Shen, Amanda Albert, Brandie Phillips, Tao Lin, Oliver Salonga, Valentin Mansurov, Dana Tolan, Vadim Makhovskiy, Joel Souza, Tiffany Richardson, Raquel Da Silva

Performance Forum

No abstract provided.

Wrong-Sizing International Justice? The Hybrid Tribunal In Sierra Leone, Chandra Lekha Sriram

Faculty Scholarship

As institutions of international justice proliferate, so do disputes about their legitimacy, and about what shape they ought to take. As truly international tools such as the International Criminal Court and the exercise of universal jurisdiction face political and practical challenges, some scholars and practitioners have advocated a distinct institutional solution: the hybrid court. These are courts that are neither purely national nor international, but rather that pursue accountability in the country where abuses and crimes occurred, but with both national and international staff, and utilizing a mixture of national and international law. Many have suggested that these tribunals represent …

Recital On Nov. 4 To Recognize Winthrop Organ's 50th Anniversary, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2005

• Winthrop launched a campaign earlier this year to raise $400,000 to restore the D.B. Johnson Memorial Organ in Byrnes Auditorium.
• The organ is named for Winthrop’s founding president and is widely regarded as one of the most valuable and historic organs in the Southeast.

The Custody Battle Over Cryogenically Preserved Embryos After Divorce: Advocating For Infertile Women’S Rights, Cori S. Annapolen

ExpressO

This paper focuses on the struggles that infertile women face to achieve motherhood because their rights are underrepresented in the American court system. It specifically centers on how the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF) helps infertile women conceive children, but then details the problems that increasing technology now causes for these women after they freeze embryos and then divorce. Because the courts of only four states have determined who gets custody of these embryos after a divorce, and because the divorce rate and the number of couples utilizing IVF are increasing, future states will likely be forced to answer …

Seeing Government Purpose Through The Objective Observer's Eyes: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Debates, Kristi L. Bowman

ExpressO

In October, 2004, the Dover, Pennsylvania School District became the first in the nation to adopt a policy requiring students studying evolution to be told about the concept of intelligent design. Soon thereafter, parents filed a lawsuit challenging the policy as violating the Establishment Clause. But, Establishment Clause doctrine is one of the most splintered, incoherent areas of the Court’s jurisprudence—and even more so after the Court’s June 2005 McCreary County v. Kentucky decision. Read strictly, McCreary County imports the effects-endorsement “objective observer” into the government purpose inquiry. This subtle shift has significant ramifications: McCreary County changes the nature of …

Less Rationality, More Efficiency: A Laboratory Experiment On "Lemons" Markets., Roland Kirstein, Annette Kirstein

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

In this paper we experimentally test a theory of boundedly rational behavior in a "lemons market." We analyzed two different market designs, for which perfect rationality implies complete and partial market collapse, respectively. Our empirical observations deviate substantially from these predictions of rational choice theory: Even after 20 repetitions, the actual outcome is closer to e±ciency than expected. Our bounded rationality approach to explaining these observations starts with the insight that perfect rationality would require the players to perform an in¯nite number of iterative reasoning steps. Boundedly rational players, however, carry out only a limited number of such iterations. We …

Internationaler Müllhandel. Eine Institutionenökonomische Analyse., Roland Kirstein

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

Müllexporte werden von Umweltpolitik und Rechtswissenschaft nahezu einhellig abgelehnt. Aus Sicht der neoklassischen Außenhandelstheorie ist diese Einschätzung überraschend, denn freiwilliger Handel sollte alle Beteiligten besser stellen. Das Paper schöpft aus der ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts sowie aus einem Experiment über iterative reasoning und liefert zwei Argumente, warum internationaler Müllhandel auch ineffizient sein kann. Außerdem wird ein Argument gegen die internationale Harmonisierung von Umweltstandards präsentiert. Aus den genannten Einwänden kann jedoch keine Begründung für das Verbot innergemeinschaftlichen Müllhandels abgeleitet werden.

Anti-Teilen In Teams, Roland Kirstein

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

Soll der gemeinsam erzeugte Output zwischen den Mitgliedern eines Teams aufgeteilt werden, so kann dies die Anreize aller Mitglieder vermindern, unbeobachtbare Anstrengung zu leisten. Weist die gemeinsame Produktionsfunktion darüber hinaus positive Kreuzableitungen auf, so ist Teamarbeit zwar besonders sinnvoll. Allerdings senkt dann die ineffiziente Anstrengung der anderen Teammitglieder die Grenzproduktivität jedes einzelnen, was die individuell rationale Anstrengung noch weiter reduziert. Der Beitrag schlägt einen simplen Vertrag vor, der diese Probleme löst: Anti-Teilung. Im Rahmen dieses Vertrages hat jedes Teammitglied Aussicht auf den gesamten Teamoutput. Hierzu muß jedes Teammitglied sich verpflichten, einen fixen Betrag zu tragen, der allerdings kleiner ist als …

Ökonomik Der Kriminalität, Roland Kirstein

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

Die Ökonomik der Kriminalität ist ein Zweig der Ökonomischen Analyse des Rechts (ÖAR, auf Englisch „Law and Economics“). Diese wird in Deutschland zwar bereits seit den 70er Jahren betrieben. Dennoch handelt es sich hierbei um eine wissenschaftliche Disziplin, die den Hauch des Exotischen umweht. In den USA ist die ÖAR dagegen eine etablierte Disziplin. An jeder Law School, die etwas auf sich hält, gibt es Lehrstühle und intensive Forschungstätigkeit. In Deutschland versteht dagegen nicht einmal jeder Ökonom, warum es erforderlich sein kann, bei der Analyse wirtschaftlichen Handelns dessen rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen zu berücksichtigen. Auf der anderen Seite empfinden viele Juristen den …

Inefficient Intra-Firm Incentives Can Stabilize Cartels In Cournot Oligopolies., Roland Kirstein, Annette Kirstein

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

The need for intra-firm incentive schemes allows remodeling the Cournot duopoly in wages (rather than in output levels). In both versions of the Cournot model, a cartel agreement is unstable. The new formulation, however, allows us to demonstrate that a collective wage agreement on minimum wages can stabilize the cartel solution. Beyond its relevance for strategic management, this result has a policy implication: competition authorities should observe collective wage agreements for their potential collusive effect on product markets. Moreover, the model may provide a new explanation why firms in reality pay lower than efficient variable wages and higher fixed wages …

The "Rainmaker’S Dilemma": Bad Debt Loss Insurance In Settlement And Litigation, Roland Kirstein, Hans Gerhard

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

In this paper, we analyze the impact of Bad Debt Loss Insurance on settlement outcomes. A huge success in a settlement or trial may turn into a disaster when the defendant goes bankrupt. “Rainmakers” face the following dilemma: the greater the success in court, the greater the defendant’s bankruptcy risk. The starting point of our paper is a simple trial and litigation model with perfect and complete information. We add the possibility of a defendant’s bankruptcy as well as Bad Debt Loss Insurance for both the settlement and the trial stage. We demonstrate that trial insurance and settlement insurance may …

Anti-Sharing., Roland Kirstein, Robert Cooter

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

Anti-Sharing may solve the sharing problem of teams: the team members promise a fixed payment to the Anti-Sharer. He collects the actual output and pays out its value to them. We prove that the internal Anti- Sharer is unproductive in equilibrium.

Bayesian Monitoring., Roland Kirstein

German Working Papers in Law and Economics

This paper presents a modification of the inspection game: The “Bayesian Monitoring” model rests on the assumption that judges are interested in enforcing compliant behavior and making correct decisions. They may base their judgements on an informative but imperfect signal which can be generated costlessly. In the original inspection game, monitoring is costly and generates a perfectly informative signal. While the inspection game has only one mixed strategy equilibrium, three Perfect Bayesian Equilibria exist in my model (one in pure strategies, two in mixed). These outcomes can be described with respect to their punishment styles: tyrannic, draconian, and lenient. The …

Cal Poly Students, Faculty, Staff Admitted Free To Ucsb Central Coast Economic Forecast Seminar At Pac Nov. 18, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Hosts Lyle Lovett, Friends In Showcase Nov. 13, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for October 27, 2005

Lanthorn, Vol. 40, No. 19, October 27, 2005, Grand Valley State University

Volume 40, July 14, 2005 - June 15, 2006

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Arbiter, October 27, Students Of Boise State University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Sca And Csuf Co-Sponsor Chinese Social Sciences Conference Oct. 28-30, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Rusesabagina Lecture Nov. 17 Is Sold Out, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.