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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"product market"”.
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Product market price integration in developing countries
… empirical evidence of price discrimination in markets for goods and services suggests that national markets should be viewed as segmented rather than integrated. Yet, this research is almost entirely driven by studies of price setting behaviour in developed countries. This thesis extends the …
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Essays On Horizontal Divestitures And Product Market Relationships
<p>This dissertation is the first to study the product effect of horizontal divestitures on upstream and downstream firms. This first essay examines product market impact of a sample of horizontal asset sales from 1988 to 2005 on corporate customers, suppliers, and industry rivals. I create a …
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Three Essays on Product Market Capital Market Interactions
… Organization literature investigates the product market decisions of a firm while the corporate finance literature explores the financing decisions of the firm. But the truth is both the financing decisions and the product market decisions are interdependent and should be modeled together …
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International Evidence on Product Market Competition and Firm Value
Economic theory and empirical research suggests product market competition can result in both positive and negative capital market effects. Specifically, research suggests competition reduces agency costs, but also reduces profitability. I examine the relation between product market competition and …
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Product-market opportunities for FPL spaceboard II molded structural products
… techniques were demonstrated for use in new product development by the wood products industry. A new molded wood structural product developed by the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory known as FPL Spaceboard II was used to illustrate the techniques. Determinant attribute analysis …
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Relationships Between Firms' Sources of Technologies and Their Product Market Opportunities
… relationship between sources of technology and product-market opportunities. The principal question that was investigated was: How does the overall opportunity pool of a firm depend on its mix of internally developed technologies and externally acquired technologies? Or, is it independent of the …
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Capital structure and product market competition: evidence from the EU life insurance industry.
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2012. Major: Business Administration. Advisor: Prof. Stephen Parente. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 47 pages, appendices A-C.
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Capital structure and product market competition : an empirical analysis of the supermarket industry
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1993.
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Unraveling the Impact of Product Market Competition and Earnings Volatility on Zero Leverage Policies
This thesis investigates the relationship between product market competition and zero leverage behavior within firms, aiming to uncover how these dynamics interact. Additionally, it explores whether firms characterized by higher earnings volatility exhibit a more pronounced positive relationship …
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Investigating product market Integration in the southern African development community : a price-based approach
… empirical literature on border effects and product market integration to the South ern African Development Community (SADC). The analysis draws on a unique integrated dataset of district-level monthly average retail product prices spanning a number of districts in Botswana, Malawi, South …
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Taxes and Product Market Outcomes: Asymmetric Effects of Tax Cuts on Winners v. Losers
… versus loss-making firms affects their product prices and market share. Using data that allow for direct pricing and product tests - airline route and pricing data - I find evidence consistent with differential consequences of tax rate cuts for profitable versus loss firms. Specifically, …
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Economic reforms and product market integration in developing countries : an empirical investigation using retail prices in Zambia
In spite of extensive trade reforms, markets for goods and services are not fully integrated across countries. Less appreciated also is that product markets within countries are frequently not integrated. Barriers to trade within countries are shown to be as important in preventing product market …
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The Timing of Follower Firm Entry Into Related Product Markets
… the timing of follower firm adoption of related product markets and assesses to what extent communication theory can be useful in explaining the phenomena. Adoption of a product market is defined here as a firm's entry into the market as indicated by the introduction of its first new product. …
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The application of A. Maizels' expost formulation of the Chenery-Strout growth model to Peru
… countries. These models are either product-market oriented, money-market oriented, or some combination of both. Those that are product-market oriented generally take the import sector as exogenously determined or changing at some specific, usually constant, rate and then analyze the …
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Capital structure and corporate strategy in South Africa an empirical analysis
… three propositions about capital structure and product market strategy. The results support the hypotheses that oligopolists have relatively high debt-equity ratio; their debt tends to be long term; and firms that produce unique and / or durable goods tend to have less debt-equity ratio.
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Essays in Financial Economics: Empirical Corporate Finance
… firm events and their interactions with the market. Chapter 1 is a joint work with Kose John, Xu Tian, and Yihan Liu. In this chapter, we analyze the market reaction to CEO turnover announcements in the presence of information frictions. We find that the market reaction to forced CEO turnover …
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Intra-industry information transfers: Evidence from earnings announcements
I examine the role of product market relations in information assimilation surrounding corporate earnings announcements. I provide evidence that intra-industry information transfers measured by industry rival earnings announcements account for a substantial portion of the well documented …
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Contagion of a Crisis, Corporate Governance, and Credit Rating
… scheme -- to maximize their utility in the product market competition. That is, we assess the effects of the competitive structure of a product market on a firm's corporate governance structure. We show that shareholders determine the corporate governance structure, including the manager's …
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Innovation & competition in a memory process
… successes. I find innovation increases with more product market competition, even under the Schumpeterian context where inventions are not completely appropriable. Assuming the probability to innovate increases with past innovations; a follower firm has large incentives to innovate, even in a …
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