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Showing 1 to 20 of 110 for “"Industrial Organization"”.
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… 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 Company …
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Essays in industrial organization
User data is extensively used for ad targeting on online platforms, and a higher volume of data allows platforms to improve targeting and may incentivize mergers. This research quantifies the impact of data on match quality (measured by average user click rates) in the online advertising industry, …
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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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Essays in Industrial Organization
<p>This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the effect of firms' entry and exit behavior on market outcomes. Chapters 1 and 2 relate to the recent financial crisis in the auto industry that led to General Motor and Chrysler's bankruptcy filing and their dealer network …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
This thesis comprises three chapters on the US trucking industry. The first and second chapters study long-term relationships between shippers and carriers. The third studies how artificial intelligence changes human decision-making in the context of the maintenance of heavy-duty trucks. The first …
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Essays in industrial organization
… that investigate burgeoning empirical issues in industrial organization. In the first chapter, I study platform fee policy with a specific focus on two-sided online marketplaces. The main contributions of the paper are threefold. First, I study a setting with coordinated price experimentation …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
This thesis comprises three essays on industrial organization. The first chapter, joint with Todd Lensman, studies the innovation of cancer drug combination therapies. Innovations often combine several components to achieve outcomes greater than the “sum of the parts.” We argue that such …
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Essays in industrial organization
The first chapter investigates the effects of technological advances on the retail gasoline market. Since 2008, a Korean government website has posted daily prices of all gasoline stations. Combined with the rapid increase of smartphone and mobile technologies, this price information service may …
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Essays on industrial organization
… pricing inertia, issues of growing interest in industrial organization and macroeconomics. The third chapter analyzes the revelation of hard information in a buyer-seller relationship. The seller can choose whether and when to credibly reveal quality information and some buyers, called …
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Essays in industrial organization
This thesis consists of three empirical essays in industrial organization. The first chapter examines the welfare effects of intertemporal price discrimination in market for airfare using a novel structural model of dynamic consumer search. I model how consumers search for airline tickets over time …
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Three Essays on Industrial Organization
In this dissertation I study three topics in Industrial Organization. In the first chapter I characterize a set of subgame perfect Nash equilibria in the alternating-offers bargaining game with one-sided outside option and differentiated depreciation rates. I use this set of equilibria to solve the …
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… results integrate environmental accounting into Industrial Organization (IO) analysis of platforms and offer guidance for researchers, managers and policymakers on licensing, content strategy, and support for reusable products.
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Essays on empirical industrial organization
… 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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Social networks in industrial organization
Chapter 1 studies the optimal strategies of a monopolist selling a good to consumers who engage in word of mouth communication. The monopolist uses the price it charges to influence both the proportion of the population that is willing to purchase the good and the pattern of communication that …
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Empirical essays in industrial organization
… three empirical essays that encompass topics in industrial organization. The first essay examines the degree of competition and spatial differentiation in the retail industry by exploiting a unique dataset that describes a consumer's choice of store, product of purchase, item price, and …
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Three essays in industrial organization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1988.
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Essays on industrial organization economics
The first chapter quantifies the efficiency of a real-world bargaining game with two-sided incomplete information. Myerson and Satterthwaite (1983) and Williams (1987) derived the theoretical efficient frontier for bilateral trade under two-sided uncertainty, but little is known about how well …
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Essays in theoretical industrial organization
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1986.
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