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  • Soundscape Policy: Noise Pollution as an Issue in Oregon Municipalities

    Creator:
    Noone, Harry
    Abstract:
    Noise is an environmental issue uniquely harmful to public welfare but essential to a well-functioning modern economy. Given the prevalence of noise especially in urban soundscapes, noise pollution has been recognized as a negative externality and an environmental stressor and thus has become an issue in public policy. Yet, as...
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    Capstone Project
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    ) Patrick Emerson (Economics) Erika Wolters (Political Science) Harry Noone (Author

  • Hungary's Declining Democracy : A Study of Organizational Power in Hungarian Politics

    Creator:
    Sandoval, Jonathan
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    Scholars posit that the successful consolidation of post-communist Central and Eastern European democracies can be linked to their subsequent accession to the European Union (EU). This led observers to assume that the continued democratization of Hungarian society was assured due to their integration into EU institutions. However, since the 2010...
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    Capstone Project
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    Political Science Philipp Kneis, representing Public Policy Patrick Emerson

  • Fare-less Public Transit, Impact on Ridership: Policy Review of Corvallis, Oregon’s Recently Implemented Fare-less Transit System

    Creator:
    Donin, Daniel
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    Due to the current cultural paradigm that incorporates the desire to be environmentally friendly and mitigate rising fuel costs, arguments about the cost of public transit systems, ridership rates, and methods to increase use are frequent topics of public policy concern. In response to these cultural and economic concerns, the...
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    Capstone Project
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    : Roger Hammer, Chair Denise Lach, Committee Member Patrick Emerson, Committee Member

  • The Involvement Disadvantage: The Effects of Welfare Program Enrollment and Poverty on Familial Involvement

    Creator:
    Carroll, Joanna Michelle
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    The negative effects of poverty on childhood academic outcomes are well documented by current research. Children in poverty experience pronounced positive effects of familial involvement on these same academic outcomes. Unfortunately children in poverty experience low levels of familial involvement. Current familial involvement policy is centered in the school environment....
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    Capstone Project
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    Patrick Emerson, representing Economics I understand that my thesis will become part of the

  • Applied Merit Pay Challenges

    Creator:
    Creighton, Jason
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    From an organizational perspective, economic incentives are often used as a tool to induce behaviors which align the goals of individuals with the organization. As a fundamental concept, varied types of merit pay have been utilized to keep organizational and individual motives in sync. This can be illustrated in contracts...
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    Capstone Project
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    :             _____________________________________________________________________   Denise  Lach,  representing  Sociology           Patrick  Emerson

  • Looking at the Relationship between Household Electricity Consumption and Annual Household Income Using an Agent-Based Integrated Framework

    Creator:
    Sorce, Evan C.
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    Electricity is a vital energy source for modern life, and is used in almost every aspect of daily life. United States electricity consumption totaled nearly 3,886,403 gigawatt hours in 2011. Residential electricity consumption accounts for 37 percent of total electricity consumption in the United States. Between 1990 and 2007, the...
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    Capstone Project
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    Bernell (Chair) representing Political Science Patrick Emerson representing

  • Policy Shifting at the Federal Reserve Bank: A Punctuated-Equilibrium Perspective

    Creator:
    Campbell, Michael
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    A considerable amount of research and literature exists that attempt to explain the policymaking processes of central banks and, in particular, the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB). As with those studies, the purpose of this study is to explain FRB policymaking in order to understand FRB policy shifts during financial crises....
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    Capstone Project
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    Economics Professor Patrick Emerson, representing Economics Professor Robert Sahr

  • Unconditional Cash Transfers: Will Redistribution in Bolivia Work?

    Creator:
    Vaughan, Andres
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    The Bolivian government is using a portion of the rent generated from its fossil fuel reserves to fund unconditional cash transfers as a means of redistributing resources. Although some countries have enacted conditional cash transfers in the past, these unconditional transfers are unique since they only have been implemented in...
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    Capstone Project
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    Rodriguez and the Rodriquez family, Denise Lach, Patrick Emerson, Amas Aduviri, Andrea Shady, Gladys Cruz

  • Entrepreneurial policy in South Eastern Europe : the role of culture, economics and regulation in augmenting MSME development

    Creator:
    Braybrooks, Melissa
    Abstract:
    MSME development has emerged at the forefront of economic policy, with the majority of policy mechanisms aimed at creating the regulatory and institutional environments, which have historically proven to augment entrepreneurial activity. In the case of Europe a large portion of entrepreneurial policy resides within the European Community framework, however...
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    Capstone Project
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    appreciation to her graduate committee members Sarah Henderson, Patrick Emerson, and Roger Hammer, in

  • Parking policy with heterogeneous agents

    Creator:
    Spratt, Jake
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    This paper investigates the potential welfare gains resulting from variable parking fees in the presence of heterogeneous agents. We begin by defining a modified linear city model with two lots located at separate distances from a central business district, and two types of agents with heterogeneous values of time. Agents...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Starr McMullen and Patrick Emerson quite sin- cerely for their time dedicated to this project, and