Understanding the processes of historical land-use change is crucial to the research of global environmental sustainability. Here we examine and attempt to disentangle the evolutionary interactions between land-use change and its underlying causes through a historical lens. We compiled and...

In essay one, we examine nonlocalized competition in interest taxation between an arbitrary number of countries. Our focus is on the role of relative number of locked-in investors in asymmetric tax competition. We find that in equilibrium, small countries have advantages in tax competition. In...

This dissertation examines the Nash equilibrium in giving by private individuals when the gifts are used to produce a pure public good which benefits everyone. A new approach to proving the existence of equilibrium is developed that relaxes the conditions of Bergstrom et al., 1986 by requiring...

In this paper, the beginnings of a new approach to the theory of aggregation are developed. The basic idea is that aggregation should involve two things: (a) data over which social preferences are defined should be mapped into a smaller-dimensional space, and (b) there should exist an ordering...

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