The Effects of Overcrowded Housing on the Academic Performance of Student Populations

In the spring and summer of every year the housing offices of many colleges and universities seek to prepare for the fall term. In colleges with increasing enrollments often a problem exists in housing all the students who have applied for housing. This problem is further complicated in colleges and universities where residency on campus is considered to be an integral part of the objectives and philosophy surrounding their educational offering

A New Taxonomy of Thin Markets

The traditional conception of a thin market based on transactions volume remains relevant in many agricultural markets but does not adequately frame emerging thin market issues. As non-price means of pricing goods becomes more common, some cash commodity markets have become residual markets. In some of these markets, not only the volume of transactions but also the representativeness of transactions to those on the related contract market is an important issue. This paper develops a concept of thin markets that accounts for this dimension of market thinness and proposes a research agenda related to this topic.Marketing,

The Impacts of Market Structure and Contracts on Agricultural Markets

Experimental markets were used to isolate the effects of market structure and contract design on market outcomes. Preliminary results suggest that market structure drives outcomes, and not necessarily contract design. Future research will replicate experiments and add dimensions of market information.Political Economy,

Response to Miles and Mezzich:“Medicine in crisis and a crisis in semantics”

Miles and Mezzich offer a welcome and comprehensive account of historical recent developments in healthcare and the role of its practice models. They identify a ‘crisis’ in medicine, which seems to have occurred in part because the science of medicine has been over-emphasised and the importance of compassion and care de-emphasised.  As they point out, this crisis has been perceived to have evolved over the past one hundred years. Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is suggested to be inadequate to solve the crisis and it may be the case that EBM, in fact, has precipitated it because it ignores patients qua persons. It is also suggested that Patient Centred Care (PCC) seeks to address the imbalance, but that this is inadequate, too. Between these existing views it is claimed that Person Centred Medicine (PCM) solves the crisis by giving persons and evidence their proper roles and relative importances</jats:p

Who Financed the Expansion of the Equity Market? Shareholder Clienteles in Victorian Britain

Who financed the great expansion of the Victorian equity market, and what attracted them to invest? Using data on 453 firm-years and over 172,000 shareholders, we find that the largest providers of capital were rentiers, men with no formal occupation who relied on investment income. We also see a substantial growth in women investors as time progressed. In terms of clientele effects, we find that rentiers invested in large firms, whilst businessmen were the venture capitalists of young, regional enterprises. Women and the middle classes preferred safe investments, whilst financiers and institutional investors were speculators in foreign companies. Our results may help to explain the growth of new types of assets catering for particular clienteles, and the development of managerial policies on dividends and share issues

The macroeconomic effects of banking crises: evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750–1938

This paper analyses the macroeconomic effects of banking crises in the United Kingdom between 1750 and 1938. We construct a new annual chronology of banking crises, which we define as episodes of runs and panics combined with significant, geographically-dispersed failures and suspensions. Using a vector autoregression, we find that banking crises are associated with short, sharp and significant drops in economic growth. Using the narrative record to identify plausibly exogenous variation, we show that this finding is robust to potential endogeneity

Multisegment Scheme Applications to Modified Chebyshev Picard Iteration Method for Highly Elliptical Orbits

A modified Chebyshev Picard iteration method is proposed for solving orbit propagation initial/boundary value problems. Cosine sampling techniques, known as Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto (CGL) nodes, are used to reduce Runge’s phenomenon that plagues many series approximations. The key benefit of using the CGL data sampling is that the nodal points are distributed nonuniformly, with dense sampling at the beginning and ending times. This problem can be addressed by a nonlinear time transformation and/or by utilizing multiple time segments over an orbit. This paper suggests a method, called a multisegment method, to obtain accurate solutions overall regardless of initial states and albeit eccentricity by dividing the given orbit into two or more segments based on the true anomaly