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An exploratory investigation of the effects on memory of prior domain experience and knowledge
(1987)Three studies explored the relationship between experience and cognition. Scott (1981/1982) had found that marital status significantly influenced recall for a courtship story. Others have shown that more domain experience ... -
Market structure, innovations, and welfare
(1987)In this dissertation, an optimal control model of innovation is developed to analyze the welfare implications of market structure under uncertainty. The stock of research and development spending is a separate input in the ... -
Bank panics, contagion and information
(1987)This dissertation is an examination of the free banking era in the United States. Recent empirical evidence (Rockoff 1975; Rolnick and Weber 1984) suggests that bank failures in this period were the result of specific ... -
Principals, agents, and federalism : the case of clean air enforcements
(1987)The design of implementation structures is crucial to maximizing values of stability, responsiveness, and representation in public policy processes. In spite of the importance of structure to results, very little research ... -
Self-reported expectations for the outcome of treatments for depression : the relationship between outcome expectations and characteristics of subjects and of treatment rationales
(1987)Client expectations for the results of treatment have been related to treatment outcome, but little is known of the ways in vftiich outcome expectations relate to other aspects of the psychotherapeutic process. The ...