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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Price Competition"”.
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Essays on Platform Mergers and Dynamic Price Competition
… impact of mergers where firms conduct dynamic price competition with asymmetric information. In Chapter 1, I analyze the welfare effects of lowering the costs to buyers of searching and multihoming in a setting with multiple two-sided platforms. The analysis is motivated by observed changes …
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Price competition in the top US domestic markets : revenues and yield premium
… the industry. The economic downturn, the fierce competition between Legacy carriers, the rapid expansion of Low Cost carriers, the soaring fuel prices and the 9/11 attacks are some of the reasons that put many US airlines into a financial crisis. Many of the traditional major US airlines were …
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Price Competition Reduction Strategies in Chinese B2C E-Commerce Markets: A Case Study
… costs. This paper reviews past literature in price competition theory, and examines the competitive landscape of major B2C firms in China’s e-commerce industry, where online retail markets have seen exponential growth over the last two decades. It shows that firms in Chinese online retail …
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Demand Estimation with Differentiated Products: An Application to Price Competition in the U.S. Brewing Industry
… analyses of pricing behavior to models of price leadership that, while important, have received limited attention. The investigation focuses on the U.S. brewing industry, where price leadership appears to be an important type of firm behavior. The analysis is conducted in two stages. In the …
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Price competition and the impact of service attributes: Structural estimation and analytical characterizations of equilibrium behavior
… the drive-thru fast-food industry. We estimate a competition model, derived from an underlying Mixed MultiNomial Logit (MNML) consumer choice model, using detailed empirical data. The main goal is to measure to what extent waiting time performance, along with price levels, brand attributes, …
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Price competition and advertising : stragetic price coordination, price war leaders and followers, and financial constraints on advertising
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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The strategy of Japanese oil companies under global warming
… diminish and oil companies will face severer competition and need to contribute energy conservation as well. This thesis analyses business circumstance of oil business in Japan and competences of ExxonMobil Japan and argues its future strategy. The analysis found that a competition in Japanese …
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River City Millwork Company
… during this period, had suffered from market price competition, various inventory problems, inefficient shop operations, and questionable purchasing strategies.
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Advertising in Markets with Consumption Externalities
… investment in advertising followed by aggressive price competition congruent with the non-strategic simultaneous advertising benchmark. The findings suggest that an incumbent’s ability to deter entry through coordinating advertising in a market with products of equal quality is sensitive to the …
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Aspects of pricing behaviour and long-run competitive adjustment in industrial markets with implications for competition policy
… industrial markets and draw implications for competition policy. The analysis of price competition relates patterns of price leadership and discount competition to features of market structure (using the UK petrol market as a case study) and examines the influence of large buyers on price …
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The Simultaneous Spatial Autoregressive Model and Its Application in the Housing and Pharmaceutical Markets
… application of the model, I investigate the price competition between two major pharmaceutical chains in the state of New York in a second paper. The prices of standardized prescription drugs vary considerably, both within each chain and across the two chains. This market is a good fit for …
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Policy and Structures of Japanese Import Demand for Beef and Feedgrains
… which is determined partly by the retail beef price variance and the per capita consumption of beef in Japan, is one of the significant factors that determine both the total beef imports and Japan's individual country imports. Hence, by the large country assumption, Japan could benefit from its …
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Essays on the effects of market regulation
This dissertation studies the effects of price regulation on the entry, exit and pricing decision of firms. I concentrate on the retail gasoline industry in Argentina. I study how the price regulation in place from 2004 to 2007 has affected the number of gas stations in the market and the price …
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Essays in Revenue Management and Dynamic Pricing
… building a mathematical model to analyze the competition between many retailers who can change the price of their respective products in real time. I develop a game-theoretic model for the dynamic price competition where each retailer's objective is to maximize its own expected total revenue. …
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Essays on banking
… especially real resources costs and imperfect competition. A special focus is made on the empirical estimation of the importance of such imperfections in the Portuguese market. The thesis is organised in three different essays, being the first focused on real resources costs, the second on …
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The role of competition law to facilitate the achievement of competitive outcomes in the healthcare sector
Competition law is defined as the rules or provisions which set out to safeguard and sustain a market where fair, yet vigorous, competition will result in the most effective allocation of economic resources and in the production of goods and services at the lowest price. Competition law is thereby …
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System dynamics simulation of the telecom industry
… model for determining market share under price competition. The work focused on key attributes and areas of the telecom industry, including network externalities, investment strategies, regulation, standardization of products, and behavior of consumer welfare. Main conclusions include the …
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Don't Take My Kodachrome Away! Eastman Kodak and the Loss of System Control in the Digital Era
… never before. Just as Kodak began facing serious price competition in the 1980s for the first time in decades, electronics manufacturers introduced video camcorders and, later, digital still cameras. Dismissed by Kodak managers as inferior, the radical technology advanced far more rapidly than …
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Loss of coordination in competitive supply chains
… the loss of total profit) due to the presence of competition in the supply chain. In this thesis, we discuss four models: one model with multiple retailers facing the multinomial logit demand, and three supply chain configurations with one supplier and multiple retailers in a i) quantity …
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A dynamic model of the electricity generation market
… market is formulated as a repeated game. Daily price competition provides sufficient information for the generators to estimate their bids. The next bids of each generator are proposed as functions of the previous and current bids. Results from the dynamic model show that the generators' bidding …
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