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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Empirical industrial organization"”.
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… welfare, and environmental outcomes. I develop empirically grounded demand–supply frameworks with indirect network effects, combine structural estimation with reduced-form designs, and recover supply primitives. Across industries, the evidence shows that opening platforms via royalty licensing …
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
This dissertation is composed by three essays in Empirical Industrial Organization. They analyze different industries and utilize different types of data and methodologies, but they all fall under the umbrella of studying the behavior of firms and markets through the use of empirical techniques and …
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Three essays on empirical industrial organization
… three chapters on topics in the field of empirical industrial organization. The first two chapters focus on lender and borrower strategies in the U.S. mortgage market while the third chapter addresses the asymmetric price adjustment phenomenon in the U.S. gasoline market. The first chapter …
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Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics
This dissertation contributes to two major research areas: the analysis of endogenousproduct characteristics in structural models of demand and dynamic models of invasive species management. In the first chapter, I analyze claims of falling business travel demand in the US following the COVID-19 …
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Essays on Quantitative Marketing and Empirical Industrial Organization
… the intersection of quantitative marketing and empirical industrial organization. The first essay, based on a joint research project with Andres Musalem, studies how consumers respond to subsidy designs with different spending restrictions in the context of SNAP (commonly known as the Food …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
<p>This dissertation extends the empirical industrial organization literature with two essays on strategic decisions of firms in imperfectly competitive markets and one essay on how inertia in consumer choice can result in significant welfare losses. Using data from the airline industry I study a …
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Economic Spillovers and Learning from Others
In chapter 1, I study how spillover effects from competitors' choices affect a firm's decision to open a store. Using panel data from the United Kingdom's fast food industry, I propose and estimate a game of entry under incomplete information that incorporates spillover effects between firms' entry …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… study addresses this gap by providing the first empirical evidence on the effects of provider mergers on quality using evidence from the English primary care market. By analyzing all provider mergers from 2014 to 2018, I find predominantly negative effects of mergers on quality. Clinical quality …
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Empirical Essays in Industrial Organization: Application in Airline and Automobile Industries
This dissertation consists of three essays in empirical industrial organization with applications in U.S. airline and automobile industries. Chapter 1 motivates the aim of this dissertation with a brief summary of the main goals and findings of the subsequent chapters. The main focus of this …
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Product Differentiation, Collusion, and Empirical Analyses of Market Power
… comprises three essays on theoretical and empirical issues in industrial organization. Chapter 1 outlines the issues explored in the subsequent chapters and briefly describes their conclusions. Chapter 2 explores how product differentiation impacts the incentive compatibility condition for …
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Essays on Mechanism Choice and Auctions
… of three chapters relating to various topics in empirical Industrial Organization. The first two chapters deal with the empirical treatment of sales in online markets. The third chapter explores the level of pass-through for taxes on soft drinks.</p><p>In the first chapter I demonstrate that when …
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An exploration of the effects of data aggregation and other factors on empirical estimates of market power
… behavior are gaining acceptance among some industrial organization economists. This is a potentially useful tool for detecting noncompetitive behavior. Policy makers and antitrust enforcement officials are interested in the results of these studies as they are applied to specific industries …
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Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
… including dynamic game of entry and exit from empirical industrial organization and quantitative spatial model from urban and spatial economics. Below I briefly introduce each chapter. In Chapter 1, I study the cost impacts of minimum parking requirements (MPRs) for retail and local services …
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Economics of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
This thesis is a collection of three essays which investigate the economics of innovation in the healthcare industry. In Chapter 2 I use a global data set to measure the effect of health losses and average patient income on innovation in different therapeutic areas. I show that the average patient …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… essays, each of which is pertinent to topics in empirical Industrial Organization. The second and third chapters are coauthored with Matthew H. Shapiro and Amil Petrin, respectively. In the first chapter, any empirical evidence presented in this chapter is derived based on data from the Nielsen …