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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Firm behavior"”.
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Essays on taxation and firm behavior
… essays that examine the impact of tax policy of firm behavior. The first chapter uses new well-level production data on California oil wells and after-tax producer prices to estimate how temporary taxes affect oil production decisions. Theory suggests that temporary taxes could lead producers to …
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Essays on Firm Behavior in Developing Economies
The performance of firms is central to growth in developing economies. A burgeoning literature within development economics seeks to understand the behavior of firms in developing countries and the constraints to their performance. This dissertation explores two types of constraints - …
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Empirical essays on firm behavior in India
In this thesis, I study the behavior of industrial firms in India in the electricity market and with respect to locational choice and environmental regulation. In the first chapter, I study the competitive effects of transmission infrastructure on market outcomes in the Indian day-ahead electricity …
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Strategic firm behavior and entry deterrence: three essays
… the final chapter examines the possibility of firms expanding their product lines to deter entry in a vertical differentiation model. In Chapter 1, the role of exclusive dealing contracts in the liner shipping industry is investigated. It is shown that if the entrant is capacity-constrained, …
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Essays in Firm Behavior, Innovation, and Social Learning
… how the availability of information from rival firms affects firm decision making.</p><p>Chapter 2 examines the drilling and fracture-input decisions in North Dakota's Bakken Shale in order to study the interaction between dynamic decision making and the possibility of social learning. The …
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The impact of financial incentives on firm behavior
… the impact of various financial incentives on firm behavior. The first two chapters examine product-market and input-market effects of a firm's capital structure and the incentives they create. The third chapter analyzes how incentives from the tort system affect physician location decisions. …
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Money and Migration: Firm Behavior and Labor Immigration Policy
… macroeconomic environment and the influence of firms as key determinants. It argues that monetary policy plays a pivotal role in shaping labor immigration policy through its influence on the economic and political behavior of firms. Specifically, the expansion of monetary policy results in lower …
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TO SUCCEED IN SUCCESSIONS:FAMILY SUCCESSION AND FIRM BEHAVIOR IN CHINESE FAMILY FIRMS
In family firms, CEO successions are key events for firms’ sustainable development, and different types of successors may influence firm behaviors in significantly different ways. To respond to the mixed results of extant studies and unveil the underlying effects, this study adopted a …
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Collusion, crime, and the death of downtown : a study of firm relocation in Johannesburg, South Africa
This study explores the dynamics of firm relocation in Johannesburg, South Africa, by analyzing the mass exodus of firms out of the city's Central Business District (CBD) over the past two decades. Using a historical approach, this study examines the interplay between urban form and firm behavior. …
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Essays in decision making
… individual decision making on the functioning of firms and markets. The first chapter examines how deviations from strict rationality by individuals impact the market for consumer goods. A growing body of evidence documents individual behavior that is difficult to reconcile with standard models of …
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Essays in MacroFinance
… how debt structure affects asset prices and firm behavior. In Chapter 1, I use a multi-state, general-equilibrium model with collateralized financial promises to study how allowing an asset to back multiple financial contracts (i.e., tranching) affects price bases. A basis emerges when one …
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Three essays on illegal transactions in international trade
… implications of smuggling by analyzing how the behavior of smuggling firms is affected by the uncertainty associated with illegal trade. Firm behavior with a risk attached to illegal trade has an impact on how government enforcement affects trade tax revenues and social welfare.
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Evaluating the Economic Returns to Entrepreneurial Behaviour
… research study also identifies 4 entrepreneurial firm capabilities that include: alertness, subjective judgment, dispersal ability and risk-taking. These capabilities were simulated using an agent-based model and experiments were run to examine their effect on firm performance over time and across …
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Two Essays on Investment and Financing Decisions of Firms
… dividend decisions of a present-value maximizing firm. The approach taken is that of control theory. The model provides useful insight into optimum firm behavior over time. The results show that investment and financing decisions are jointly determined for a value maximizing firm. This is an …
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Three Empirical Essays on Energy and Labor Economics
… the differences between private and non-private firms in two contexts. Chapters 1 and 2 examine the electricity industry in the United States and the motivation behind electric utilities' usage of demand side management programs. The first chapter focuses on load management programs, which …
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Essays on Economic and Behavioral Consequences of CSR Reporting Regulations
… regulations for all or a subset of listed firms. An important feature of the CSR reporting regulations worldwide is that the regulations are relatively soft in the sense that most countries pass disclosure regulations that contain ‘comply-or-explain’ provisions. This dissertation contains …
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Effects of credit rating change on risk-taking
… whether there are changes in risk-taking behavior following an upgrade or downgrade in credit ratings. Research on effects of rating changes on capital markets is well-documented but the literature on how rating changes may affect firm behavior is sparse. Following, a downgrade in credit …
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Essays In Finance And Macroeconomics
… I study how financial covenants influence firm behavior by state-contingently allocating decision rights to creditors. I develop a model with long-term debt where shareholders cannot commit to not dilute creditors in the future with new debt issuances and risky investments. Creditors …
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Minigrids for electrification : policies to promote industry growth
… model to judge the effect of these policies on firm behavior. The simulation results find that if governments are to prioritize universal access to rural households, specific policy measures must be put in place to encourage minigrid developers to provide service to low-income consumers.
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Essays in Competition and Investment in Electricity Market
… by simulating both short term and long term firm behavior under different market design parameter settings.
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