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Showing 1 to 20 of 253 for “"Economics, Commerce-Business"”.
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of electron beam computed tomography screening to detect early coronary artery disease.
Cost-effectiveness analysis of electron beam computed tomography screening to detect early coronary artery disease.
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What's in a Political Risk? Re-Assessing the Policies and Determinants of Foreign Investments
This dissertation traces the history, methodologies and assumptions surrounding the complex field of political risk analysis (PRA), including attempts at theory-building over the past few decades. It suggests that while the study of politically charged risks has grown to encompass of number of …
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Trade and the environment: A game-theoretic analysis of the linkages.
This thesis attempts to analyze some prominent linkages between trade and the environment. More specifically, the thesis seeks to elucidate the endogenous determination of environmental policies in the context of North-South and North-North relations when pollution generated in one country can …
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The impact of the FTA on the Canadian manufacturing industry.
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Modeling the Bargaining Game Between Multinational Firms and Britain's Office of Fair Trading: An Exploratory Analysis
Few cases actually reach the MMC. The expense and intrusiveness of inquiries for both the target firms and the government lead to expectations that bargaining is preferred. Case histories of OFT and MMC decisions are reconstructed in order to determine why a negotiated settlement was or was not …
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Three Essays on Modeling Financial Risk and Pricing Financial Assets
Essay three: Nonparametric estimation of multifactor diffusion processes and its applications to Heath-Jarrow-Morton interest rate models . This essay develops a nonparametric estimation framework for multifactor diffusion processes with multivariate diffusion functions and applies it to …
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Three Essays on Transfer Pricing
… The essay also discusses about general business environment in Thailand.
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Essays in Political Economy and Public Policy
The third essay surveys the two prominent, theories that purport to explain the extent of public ownership. It then develops a model that puts these two theories into a common framework. The model is tested with a cross-country panel dataset. The results show that deficiencies in commitment and …
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Two Essays on Financial Markets
The dissertation presented here is a collection of two self-contained papers on financial markets. The first paper develops a spatial model in which two banks and non-bank ATM owners compete and ATMs are installed either at commercial locations or non-commercial locations. Non-bank owned ATMs have …
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Telecommunications and Regulatory Reform: Methods and Applications
The third chapter explores the relationship between firm revenues and infrastructure in the US telecommunications industry using quantile regression methods. Under certain assumptions such a relationship is used to measure the welfare impact of infrastructure development. It also provides a …
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Essays in Economics Under Uncertainty
In the first chapter, we study the process of learningin a differential information economy. The economy extends over an infinite number of periods and we assume that the agents behave non-myopically, i.e., they discount the future. We adopt a new equilibrium concept, the non-myopic core. A …
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Structure, Productivity Growth and Spillover Effects: An Empirical Investigation of Indonesian Manufacturing
Chapter 4 presents the examination of the FDI impact on performance of Indonesian manufacturing plants measured by their level of efficiency, during the period 1987--1992. Technical efficiency of individual firms is estimated using stochastic frontier approach to panel data. Panel data, which are …
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The Price and Welfare Effects of Airline Alliances
These papers provide theoretical and empirical evidence for the price and welfare effects of airlines alliances. The first chapter develops a model for the price effects of international airline alliances and empirically tests the predictions. Two substantive claims from the theoretical models are …
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Essays in Pricing and Price Formation
These results suggest that late entrants reap short run rents from these consumers that are loyal enough to them to have waited until their entry in order to purchase. They also suggest a rapidly declining price premium for quality over the product cycle. In light of these findings, brand …
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Modeling Production Externalities in the Maquila Industry
With a combined population of 410 million and joint Gross Domestic Product near 11 trillion USD, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) represents the world's largest trading bloc in a global economy of 40.7 trillion USD. Under the current agreement, US Mexico trade has strengthened to the …
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Multi-Channel Supply Chain Management in the E -Business Era
… multi-channel management problems in the e-business era. First, we develop a model to conceptualize the impact of customers' attitudes toward direct versus traditional shopping on supply chain design. Customers' acceptance of the web-based channel can be weak enough that a vertically …
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Information Technology and Governance: Substitution and Complementary Effects
… dissertation extends studies in organizational economics and strategic management.
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Electronic Commerce in Business -to -Business Procurement: The Effects on Organizations
… change the structure of interactions between businesses. Businesses still deal one-on-one and they also continue to use Intermediaries. Market-spaces are used but they end up looking like Intermediaries. The number of suppliers utilized by a buyer does not radically increase; in fact, it may …
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Choosing a Project Team: The Effects of Interdependence and Prior Transacting in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (Epc) Projects
This dissertation produces several important findings. First, I find that one needs to treat two key activities/transactions of a customized project---design and manufacturing---on a discrete basis. In specific, technological and architectural uncertainties, typically associated with customized …
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Supply Partner Selection for the Co-Development of Innovative Products: The Key Role of Reputation
… by integrating constructs from the informational economics, social exchange, and organizational buying behavior literatures. A new construct, supplier reputation, is defined and its properties are proposed. A three stage model of supplier selection is then developed which integrates the supplier …
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