Essays in Pricing and Price Formation

These results suggest that late entrants reap short run rents from these consumers that are loyal enough to them to have waited until their entry in order to purchase. They also suggest a rapidly declining price premium for quality over the product cycle. In light of these findings, brand coefficients in hedonic regressions using high frequency data should not be interpreted as capturing unobserved quality only.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Zacharias, Eleftherios

Contributors dc:contributor

• Williams, Steven R.

• Economics, Commerce-Business

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9953182

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85665