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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Vertical Differentiation"”.
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Strategic firm behavior and entry deterrence: three essays
… 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, exclusive dealing contracts can be an effective entry …
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Firm's Optimal Resource Portfolio under Consumer Choice, and Supply and Demand Risks
… risks. The firm sells two products that are vertically differentiated, and has the option to invest in both dedicated and flexible resources. Our objective is to understand the effectiveness of the two hedging mechanisms, resource flexibility and demand management through production …
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Measuring supply chain carbon efficiency : a carbon label framework
… share information through the development of a vertical differentiation model of product carbon labels. Our model shows how consumer demand for lower carbon products drives reductions in the carbon footprint throughout the supply chain and induces firms to voluntarily disclose their carbon …
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Product Differentiation, Collusion, and Empirical Analyses of Market Power
… 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 horizontally …
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Exploring the Adoption Process of MBSE: A Closer Look at Contributing Organizational Structure Factors
… Formalization, Centralization, Specialization, Vertical Differentiation, Flexibility, and Interconnectedness. These are different characteristics of organizational structure that can be measured on a scale. MBSE adoption and implementation was represented by one adoption and three implementation …
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Non-Linear Pricing in Imperfectly Competitive Markets
… externality that implies that product differentiation is closely related to the possibility of discriminating. The essay reviews the theory of competitive non-linear pricing by starting from its foundations, mechanism design under common agency. The different approaches to model …
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Three essays on product design: incorporating capacity, remanufacturing, and environmental friendliness
… design of product quality, a single dimensional vertical differentiation which represents all more-is-better attributes of a product. In the first essay, we investigate how “back-end"" capacity constraint interacts with “front-end"" pricing decisions. Specifically, we assume capacity is consumed …