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Navid Abedini

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This thesis, which consists of three essays, uses empirical methods to study questions in criminal procedure and employment antidiscrimination law. The first chapter measures the consequences for offenders of expanding constitutional criminal jury trial rights. I study the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), which extended beyond-a-reasonable-doubt jury factfindi...

Dissertation Essays on Monetary Economics Essays on Monetary Economics

This dissertation consists of three essays on monetary economics. The rst two essays have a focus on the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate (ZLB) and the Great Recession. In the rst essay, I investigate optimal discretionary monetary policy under the ZLB in the case of a distorted steady state due to monopoly and taxation. I nd that the central bank in a more distorted economy would ...

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coherence but by its concrete coherence—by its power to "assimilate" any and all alien beliefs, to change without annihilating such beliefs. In still other words, it is to take all thoughts captive to Christ (Ch. 6, pp. 147-79), even difficult thoughts like

Physics Essays

The failure of Maxwell's equations to exhibit invariance under the Galilean transformation was corrected by Hertz through a simple, but today largely forgotten, mathematical trick. This involves substituting total (convective) time derivatives for partial time derivatives wherever the latter appear in Maxwell's equations. By this means Hertz derived a formally Galilean-invariant covering theory...