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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Product differentiation"”.
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Product Differentiation in International Trade
This thesis is concerned with the role of product quality in explaining observed price and trade patterns. The first chapter introduces the topic, summarizes the main findings of the dissertation and contrasts them to other results in the literature. The second chapter develops a tractable general …
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Airline pricing and fare product differentiation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Essays on intellectual property rights and product differentiation
… on intellectual property rights and optimal product selection when innovation occurs sequentially. One of the highlights of this dissertation has been to show the possibility of full rent extraction by the patent holder when uncertainty in litigation is taken into consideration. The result of …
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Empirical studies of marketing, product differentiation, pricing, and competition
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Vertical product differentiation and competition in the supermarket industry
… a model of competition based on the vertical product differentiation (VPD) enciogenous sunk cost framework proposed by Sutton (1991), several empirical implications are identified and evaluated using a detailed dataset of store level observations from the supermarket industry. Chapter 2 …
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Product Differentiation, Collusion, and Empirical Analyses of Market Power
… their conclusions. Chapter 2 explores how product differentiation impacts the incentive compatibility condition for firms to sustain implicit collusion in games of repeated interaction where, in contrast to previous studies, I focus on a market which is simultaneously vertically and …
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Three essays on oligopolistic competition, product differentiation and international trade
… A two-period two-country address model of product differentiation is examined in which firms face an initial period of autarky. Trade takes place in the subsequent period and firms fully anticipate switches in trade regimes. Results suggest that historical (domestic) conditions matter a lot …
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Examining product differentiation within the big 4 in the Australian audit market
This study examines vertical product differentiation within the Big 4 audit firms in the Australian audit market and potential pricing effects resulting from this differentiation. Assuming a competitive Big 4 audit market, systematically higher prices pertaining to one particular Big 4 audit firm …
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Improve the lead time for the medium wheel loader using core configuration and delayed product differentiation
… and the parts required for the late stage differentiation at the distribution centers. In addition, it proposes the supply chains models using core configuration and delayed product differentiation concept and optimized inventory in the chain. Finally, the project determines whether the new …
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Essays in Competition and Investment in Electricity Market
… prices. The first paper uses search cost and product differentiation to explain the price dispersion using only data on price. If search costs are present, the search burden can lead to market inefficiency. If product differentiation is the main cause of price dispersion, the market …
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Challenges and rewards of mechanical platforming strategy within wireless handset industry
… internship project studied Motorola competitors' products and identified their mechanical platform strategy. Recommendations were developed for Motorola to improve product development and/or portfolio planning, in terms of hitting key performance parameters for design differentiation, field …
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Investigating the factors that drive social commerce purchase intention amongst the millennials in South Africa
… that platform reputation, reviews, ratings, and product differentiation enhance trust and price. Moreover, trust shows no influence on purchase intention – and nor did brand image, brand integrity and brand identity. Findings from this study indicate that product differentiation, reviews and …
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Variety, price and quality in the South African automotive industry (2000-2009)
… the Melitz [2003] model and models of vertical product differentiation hold true for the developments in the South African automotive industry for the period 2000 to 2009. A new and highly disaggregated dataset of car prices and car sales is used, listing 2252 car varieties. It is found that …
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Economics of innovation: competition, clubs and the environment
… neither are its affects. The development of new products and technology is significant in any industry. As a result, understanding the path of progress within an industry is necessary to maximize the benefit from innovation. The focus of this research is to further understand the relationship …
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COST REDUCTION THROUGH ASSEMBLY POSTPONEMENT IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION
… postponement is a technique of delaying the product differentiation point when assembling multiple items from common components at the beginning of the production process. We extend Lee and Tang's (1997) assembly postponement network model by accounting for supply uncertainty and customer …
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The U.S. cable television industry : the multi-service operator organizational structure as a bundle of competencies
… their domains, while maintaining best-in-breed product differentiation. In order for the cable companies to maintain their dominant position, I argue in this thesis that the firms must change from being a single service cable company, to being multi-service operators (MSO). This change in …
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SSA's Development Delay: Three Essays on The Monetary System, The International Trade and Property Rights
… the increasing return to scale (IRS) theory of product differentiation in the bilateral trade within SSA. It shows that the similarity of the factors of production proportions and the lack of product differentiation reduce the extent of trade between African countries. Trade policies that are …
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A vertical trade model of the international pork industry
… differences between the assumptions of product differentiation and product homogeneity. The results indicate that a market with homogeneous products shows larger impact on the quantities as a result of very small price changes. In the case of the assumption of product differentiation, …
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Pricing-to-market for UK export sector
… of producers’ marginal cost, market share and product differentiation. The cross-sectional regressions are estimated using OLS, Generalised Method of Moment (GMM) and Logit estimations. Overall, the results suggest that market share affects PTM positively.Exporters with smaller market share are …
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Evaluating the interaction between material substitution and part sharing in product design : a case study of automotive lightweighting
Firms seek to create a product that are both desired by consumers, and also minimize costs. These goals come into conflict, as minimizing costs leads firms toward mass production, and meeting consumer needs leads firms toward product differentiation. One strategy to resolve these conflicting goals …
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