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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Differentiated Products"”.
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Three essays on differentiated products and heterogeneous consumer preferences: the case of table eggs
… impacts. Thus, many food producers have differentiated and advertised their products using relevant attributes. The increasing demand and supply of differentiated food products have raised questions regarding consumer preferences and producer strategies. This dissertation consists of …
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Demand Estimation with Differentiated Products: An Application to Price Competition in the U.S. Brewing Industry
A large part of the empirical work on differentiated products markets has focused on demand estimation and the pricing behavior of firms. These two themes are key inputs in important applications such as the merging of two firms or the introduction of new products. The validity of inferences, …
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Firms' Decisions to Enter a Market of Highly Differentiated Products: Apparel Industry and New York Fashion Week
<p>This dissertation deals with economic aspects of the fashion industry. It begins with a discussion of the complex industrial organization aspects of the industry. A wealth of information in this area has been assembled and is presented for the first time. The focus is on the high-end fashion …
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Firm's Optimal Resource Portfolio under Consumer Choice, and Supply and Demand Risks
… with supply and demand risks. The firm sells two products that are vertically differentiated, and has the option to invest in both dedicated and flexible resources. Our objective is to understand the effectiveness of the two hedging mechanisms, resource flexibility and demand management through …
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Empirical Essays in Industrial Organization: Application in Airline and Automobile Industries
… using a discrete choice model of demand for differentiated products. In chapter 3 we use a structural oligopoly model for differentiated products similar to chapter 2 to unveil the nature of conduct that exists in markets with endpoints which qualify as hubs of legacy carriers. In contrast to …
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Software development cost estimating models: an application of the hedonic pricing approach
… are the implicit prices of attributes of I differentiated products as revealed in the market through attribute levels associated with market-clearing prices. Several aspects of the software costing models fit within the hedonic pricing approach. Many of the models base cost estimates on the …
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Preparation of green non-ionic surfactants from 2,3-epoxy-1-propanol
… aspects and can lead to “green” and differentiated products in the market. In this work, glycidol has been used as a starting material to produce non-ionic surfactants. Glycidol can be produced from glycerol carbonate, an important chemical intermediate which is synthesised via …
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Loss of coordination in competitive supply chains
… competition among retailers with substitute products, ii) price competition among retailers with substitute products, and iii) quantity competition among retailers with complement products, producing differentiated products under an affine demand function. As a special case, we also consider …
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A methodology for determining engineering costs and their effects on the development of product families
The goal of most firms is to deliver products that satisfy customer needs. Delivering a variety of differentiated products allows firms to satisfy the broadest range of customers. There is, however, a fundamental tension between this product differentiation and product cost. The use of product …
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Essays on telecommunications demand and regulatory policies
This thesis employs models of homogenous and differentiated products to empirically investigate the demand for mobile phone services in Sub-Saharan African countries. The thesis consists of a short introductory chapter, three self-contained empirical chapters, and a summary chapter. In Chapter 2, …
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Intra-Industry Trade in Agricultural Products Between the United States, NAFTA and European Union Trading Partners
… agriculture both involve trade and production of differentiated products, so their increased importance is closely linked. Value-added products involve high profit margins relative to raw commodities and increased importance of value-added agriculture activities goes hand-in-hand with the growing …
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Product development practices that matter
… and technological innovation into successful products. Several waves of improvements in technological innovation and product development have already substantially enhanced companies' ability to deliver differentiated products to markets faster, more efficiently, and with higher quality. …
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The role of culture in organizational change
… to their customers rather than just delivering products. Many such companies have a strong culture that derives from years of successfully delivering differentiated products. The move toward a more "solutions oriented" business is difficult. The strategic initiative is a critical first step but …
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The Wnt Casade and Stem Cell Fate in a Basic Metazoan
… of I-cells and a few days later, the I-cell differentiated products, namely the nerve and stinging cells. Long term exposure to the inhibitor led to slower growth of the colony, higher numbers of oogonia-like structures and an absence/lack of oocyte and eggs. All these data lend support the …
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Three Essays On Welfare Effects Of Government Intervention
… Bertrand duopoly model with environmentally differentiated products. The results show that tariff imposed by the developed country improves the local and global environment while reducing the social welfare. If the developed country has a high environmental standard, the country should …
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Pricing-to-market for UK export sector
… associated with PTM. So industries with highly differentiated products are less likely to adjust their prices. However, marginal costs seem not to be significantly associated with PTM. Exporters perform PTM to limit the FX rate effect pass-through to their foreign customers, but they also …
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Evaluating the interaction between material substitution and part sharing in product design : a case study of automotive lightweighting
… product variants allowing firms to maintain differentiated products while obtaining some of the economies of scale. In this way, part sharing reduces the cost burden of maintaining multiple product variants. However, part sharing also reduces product differentiation by resulting in some …
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Manufacturer Product Line Decisions In Growing Consumer Technology Markets: A Case of Digital Cameras
… in economics and marketing commonly view differentiated products as combinations of "attributes" that are located in multi-attribute space. In first study presented in Chapter 2 of this dissertation, I conform to this common view of products as multi-attribute bundles and, therefore, …
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Analysis of the United States pediatric immunization market: A game theoretic approach
… with equal and limited production capacity) in a differentiated, single- product market with linear demand. Vaccines are differentiated based upon the number of reported adverse medical events for that vaccine. Using the proposed game theoretic model, equilibrium prices are computed for competing …
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Microeconomic implications of trade shocks in developing countries
… type and country of destination. I classify products into differentiated and non-differentiated, and I use ISO 9001 certification as a proxy for firms' ability to produce high-quality products. First, I show that firm-product-destination-year unit values are higher for high-quality firms, on …