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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Switching costs"”.
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Channel structure modification: Motivations and switching costs in manufacturer-distributor relationship
… first, to develop a comprehensive model of switching costs which includes the possible deterrent effects that these costs may have on the probability of channel relationship modification; second, to identify the motivating factors underlying the modification of channel partner relationships. …
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Beating the system : accelerating commercialization of new materials
… chains. Contrary to popular wisdom, material costs, competitive materials, and serendipity were much smaller factors in commercialization delay. The factors that led to insertion of plastics into applications were different from the factors that led to post-insertion growth. The major plastics …
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Regulation of public health insurance
… to explore interactions among adverse selection, switching costs, and regulation. I document evidence of both adverse selection of beneficiaries across contracts and switching costs for beneficiaries in changing contracts within Medicare Part D. Using an empirical model of contract choice and …
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Essays in Evolutionary Game Theory
… In the first chapter, we study the impact of switching costs on the long run outcome in 2X2 coordination games played in the circular city model of local interactions. We find that for low levels of switching costs, the risk dominant convention is the unique long run equilibrium. For …
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Autonomous adaptive acoustic relay positioning
… traveling between distant waypoints, however, switching costs are significant. The multi-armed bandit with switching costs has no optimal index policy, so we have developed an adaptation of the Gittins index rule with limited policy enumeration and asymptotic performance bounds. We describe …
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Market Power of Digital Platforms: An Investigation of the Online Networking Market
… dissertation demonstrates that information gaps, switching costs, and entry barriers are the most suited approaches to assess digital platforms’ market power. Under the switching costs approach, this dissertation conducts an empirical study, showing that Facebook users switch frequently to other …
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Analysing the Factors Affecting Customer Loyalty in E-Commerce in Vietnam
… quality, price, perceived value, and perceived switching costs as the measuring variables toward satisfaction and trust, and fortifying loyalty. The empirical findings confirm the correlation of satisfaction and trust, satisfaction and loyalty, and trust and loyalty. Website quality has slight …
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Essays on strategic behavior in government-designed markets
… This market exhibits fee dispersion and low switching rates, which could be explained by firm differentiation or by switching costs. Using a novel combination of revealed preference inequalities and latent variable integration techniques, I find evidence of large switching costs, and that if …
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Customer Tolerance In Community Pharmacy
… customer tolerance is negatively associated with switching intentions hypothesis 3: psychological switching costs (commitment) are positively associated with customer tolerance hypothesis 4: economic switching costs are positively associated with customer tolerance before hypotheses about factors …
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The use of landmark-based wayfinding strategies across the adult lifespan
… employed a suboptimal egocentric strategy before switching to an allocentric strategy, suggesting that egocentric knowledge precedes allocentric knowledge. Finally, participants were not subject to performance-related decrements associated with the effort of switching strategies. Interestingly, …
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Approaches to education market design
… of evolving demand for schools under learning, switching costs, and demand responses to prior assignments. The estimates suggest that there are even more changes in underlying demand, undermining the welfare performance of the initial match. To alleviate the cost of demand changes, I investigate …
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Supply response to consumer inertia : strategic pricing in Medicare Part D
… or behave as though they face substantial switching costs in choosing a health insurance plan. I investigate whether the private firms that provide prescription drug insurance through Medicare Part D exploit this inertia when setting prices. I first document descriptive evidence consistent …
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A New Institutional Economic Analysis and Implications for Foreign Direct Investment in Saudi Arabia: The Framework and Effects of Contemporary International Law and Migrant Workers
… continued use of the Kafala System has increased switching costs because oflearning effects, coordination effects, and adaptive expectations. The thesis then argues that inorder to successfully reform this system, it is important in the first instance to justify proposedchanges in light of Islamic …
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Scale and differentiation in services : using information technologies to manage customer experiences at Harrah's Entertainment and other companies
… technology in a manner that increases customer switching costs, resulting in improved profitability and returns. The limitations of standardization-only scale-oriented strategies are discussed, and the dissertation concludes with a description of the three key components needed by any firm …
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Essays in Industrial Organization
… how inertia in choice (be it inattention or switching costs) can lead to consumers being on poorly matched cellphone plans and how a simple policy proposal can have a considerable effect on welfare.</p>
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Consumer Search And Switching Behavior: Evidence From The Credit Card Industry
… determinants of consumers' choices regarding switching credit-card balances. To estimate the likelihood that consumers switch credit cards, two logit models are estimated. Using data from the Consumer Finance Monthly (CFM) of The Ohio State University, the author finds that at the conventional …
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The Effects of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation and Mandatory Audit Firm Retention on Opinion Shopping
… competency, (6) market competition, and (7) switching costs. These changes, in turn, may affect auditors’ incentives to compromise and clients’ willingness to engage in opinion shopping. Using hand-collected data based on the unique Korean setting where both mandatory audit firm rotation and …
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… of dialects using an adaptation of a Language Switching Paradigm to determine if the effort required to switch between dialects is similar to the effort required to switch between languages. The results closely replicated what is typically shown for bilinguals: Bidialectal speakers exhibited a …
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Resilient control in long-range sensor and actuator networks
… understand how to mitigate unnecessary radio switching to take place and then use this knowledge to suggest ways of developing a Link Quality Estimator that utilize online weather data to be able to conduct smart link switching. In the context of this thesis, we focus on the case study of a …
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