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Description:: This dissertation focuses on the two important inputs in economic agents’ forecasts: models and information. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 discuss a specific model that forecasters may use in their forecasts, which is Okun’s law. Chapter 3 studies the role of first announcements in the future economy....
Author:: Guo, Xudong
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GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Sinclair, Tara M.
Committee Member(s):: Ericsson, Neil R and Joutz, Frederick L
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: William Lightfoot Price (1861-1916), a Philadelphia architect, had a deep interest in social and design reform. That interest prompted him to found Rose Valley as an experimental Arts & Crafts community in 1901, based on William Morris’s utopian novel, News from Nowhere. Rose Valley Shops opened...
Author:: Penzo, Mary Jane
Keyword:: William Price, Utopian Community, Rose Valley, Arts & Crafts Furniture, American Arts & Crafts, and Gothic Furniture
GW Unit:: Decorative Arts & Design History
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Fitzgerald, Oscar P.
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation discusses the control of parent-child systems in which a parent system is acted on by a set of controllable child systems (i.e. a swarm). Using swarms of robots to accomplish complex tasks has several benefits over using a single robot; for example, members of the swarm can each...
Author:: Crandall, Kyle L
Keyword:: Distributed Control, Swarm Robotics, Learned Control, Backstepping Control, and Abstraction
GW Unit:: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Wickenheiser, Adam
Committee Member(s):: Lee, Taeyong, Park, Chung Hyuk, Pless, Robert, and Schwartz, Ira
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation consists of three essays on regional economics that deal with earningsinequality in cities, interstate migration and spatial competition in the retail market. Chapter1 provides a theoretical framework to analyze the observation of rising earnings inequalitywith city size. Many...
Author:: Wu, Haixiao
Keyword:: housing cost, earnings inequality, spatial competition, interstate migration, job searching, and on-line shopping
GW Unit:: Economics
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Yezer, Anthony M.
Committee Member(s):: Joshi, Sumit and Carrillo, Paul
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: During a major organizational change, according to Albert and Whetten (1985), organizational members engage in the self-reflective question: Who are we as an organization? This study examined two of the four dynamic processes—reflecting and expressing of culture and identity—documented in Hatch...
Author:: Meyerson, Rita D
Keyword:: organizational identity, culture, mergers and acquisitions, strategy, organizational history, and organizational change
GW Unit:: Human & Organizational Learning
Degree:: Ed.D.
Advisor:: Casey, Andrea J
Committee Member(s):: Nissley, Nick and Marquardt, Michael J
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This project aims to delve into the layered, complex, and problematic relationship between white supremacy and the Middle Ages through the context of the Ku Klux Klan’s obsession with chivalry and the defense of white womanhood during the Jim Crow era in the American South. In order to do so,...
Author:: Connor, Morgan Leigh
Keyword:: ku klux klan, femininity, medievalism, white womanhood, Jim Crow, and white supremacy
GW Unit:: English
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Hsy, Jonathan
Committee Member(s):: Dugan, Holly
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This study examines whether corporate acquisitions create synergistic gains in the form of post-acquisition abnormal operating performance and whether the acquisition premium is associated with post-acquisition operating performance. By disentangling the purchase accounting effect, I propose an...
Author:: Moon, Joon Seok
Keyword:: Purchase accounting, M&A, Synergy, Goodwill, Acquisition premium, and Operating performance
GW Unit:: Accountancy
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Kang, Sok-Hyon
Committee Member(s):: Xue, Yanfeng, Rozenbaum, Oded, and Baber, William R
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Acéptame is a multimedia project about the queer Latinx community of Washington D.C. and how three characters make themselves feel visible in spaces that don’t always accommodate for them. The project follows a DJ (Nahuel Aránguiz), a drag queen (Randy Salmeron), and a drag king (Yadiel...
Author:: Garcia, Andrea
Keyword:: Photography, Latinx, LGBTQ, Documentary, Latino, and Queer
GW Unit:: New Media Photojournalism
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Sterner, Susan
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: N/A
Author:: Ball, Maggie
Keyword:: Sexual Assault, Student-Athletes, Sexual Harassment, College, and Title IX
GW Unit:: Criminology
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Eglitis, Daina
Committee Member(s):: Ishizawa, Hiromi
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) was an organization during the 1960’s which adhered to a Pan-African revolutionary nationalist philosophy that blended Mao’s critique of Marxism, the discipline and spiritual nature of the Nation of Islam, W.E.B. Du Bois’ scholarship, the Black Nationalism...
Author:: Jones, John Edward
Keyword:: pan-African, RAM, Self-defense, urban, revolution, and guerrilla
GW Unit:: History
Degree:: M.A.
Advisor:: Blyden, Nemata and Zimmerman, Andrew
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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