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Description:: This dissertation contains three essays that investigate various factors affecting firms' choice of quality in the context of nursing homes. The first essay examines how strategic interactions with competitors affect quality levels selected by nursing homes. I explore nursing homes' responses to minimum nurse staffing standards imposed in two large...
Keyword:: Economics
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Min Chen
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/13/2018
Date Modified:: 09/13/2018
Date Created:: 2008-11-17
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation investigates how public disclosure of quality information affects the behavior of firms. The first chapter uses a quality disclosure policy, the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), to examine how quality "report cards" affect firms' choices of multidimensional product quality. I show that after the introduction of NHQI: (1)...
Keyword:: Economics and General
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Susan Feng Lu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/20/2018
Date Modified:: 09/20/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The first chapter investigates the offshoring decision from a network capacity investment perspective. We analyze a firm that manufactures two products to serve two geographically separated markets using a common component and two localized final assemblies. Two strategic network design questions arise naturally: (1) Should the common part be produced...
Keyword:: Economics and General
Subject:: Managerial Economics and Strategy
Creator:: Lauren Xiaoyuan Lu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 07/25/2018
Date Modified:: 07/25/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-14
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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