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- This dissertation endogenizes information acquisition in two-player games across three different settings. The first chapter explores when moral hazard in a principal-agent contract can lead to pareto improvements when it is preceeded by information gathering. The second chapter studies how product differentiation affects the amount of market research done by...
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- Game Theory, Microeconomics, Contracts, Persuasion, Moral Hazard, and Information Economics
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Colin Shopp
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Modified:
- 11/25/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation explores topics in information economics. A particular focus in this dissertation is how competition affects incentives for information acquisition and information sharing between competitors. The first chapter studies a principal-agent setting where two principals compete for the services of one agent. The second chapter studies how competition in...
- Keyword:
- Economic theory
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Rafayal Ahmed
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/23/2019
- Date Modified:
- 08/08/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation focuses on policy issues in the area of Economics of Innovation. As developed countries are becoming increasingly reliant on innovation for economic growth, it is important to enhance our understanding of how public policies affect innovation. The first chapter examines the effect of government research grants on firms'...
- Keyword:
- Innovation Policy and Economics of Innovation
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Rainer Widmann
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/13/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I introduce a new statistical test for identifying prejudice from empirical data. In the second chapter, I (joint with James Schummer) consider the revenue maximization problem for a two-sided, one-to-one matching platform. In the third chapter, I...
- Keyword:
- economics of discrimination, matching, two-sided markets, test for prejudice, and media bias
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Phillip Louis Marx
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/16/2019
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 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
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- This dissertation contains three essays that look at competition, entry and capacity spectrum investment of wireless telecommunication firms in the U.S. The first two essays (Chapters 1-2) examine wireless firm's entry decision while the final essay studies their investment behavior. The first essay examines how wireless firm compete against each...
- Keyword:
- wireless telecommunications industry, competition, investment, and market structure
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Mian Dai
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-12-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I examine how consumers' purchase' decisions and intentions of purchases are affected by uncertainty about future deals (temporary price cuts or sales) for a product and how these results affect retailers' optimal pricing and marketing strategies. First I look at the effects of uncertainty about the timing of deals (i.e....
- Keyword:
- uncertainty, consumer behavior, pricing, retailer, and deals
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Priscilla Yung Medeiros
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-11-18
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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Competition, Quality Choices and Vertical Differentiation: Applications to the Nursing Home Industry
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- 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
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- Description:
- This thesis encompasses the work on bid-price controls for network revenue management and a dynamic model of revenue management with strategic consumers. The first line of research studies the circumstances under which bid-price controls are optimal or near optimal with minimal assumptions on the network topology and the stochastic structure...
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- sequential screening, revenue management, strategic consumers, forward backward SDEs, revelation principle, and Bid prices
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Mustafa Akan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/10/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- My primary interest is in markets as aggregators of information. To study this I create a benchmark market-microstructure model of sequential trading on posted prices. I have a competitive market maker and rational profit-maximizing traders with different tastes over a single asset and heterogeneous information over its value. The differences...
- Keyword:
- Strategy and Managerial Economics
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Konstantinos E Zachariadis
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/07/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-05
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Consumers' willingness-to-pay can change over time and can change differently for different consumers. Rational and forward-looking consumers incorporate this into their decision making. This dissertation examines the implication of such change in several dynamic IO settings. The first chapter looks at a durable goods monopoly setting where consumers' valuations decline...
- Keyword:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Zhiyun Xu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Modified:
- 09/06/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-05-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation comprises three chapters, each focusing on a different question in economic theory. The first two chapters focus on repeated games and reputations, while the third is about large games. In "Cooperation and Community Responsibility", I study whether cooperation can be sustained between communities where members interact repeatedly but...
- Keyword:
- Repeated Games, Reputation, Random Matching, Folk Theorem, and Large Games
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Joyee Deb
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/31/2018
- Date Created:
- 2008-04-28
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation considers price indices in the context of two rapidly growing markets. The first is the emerging market for Internet Service Providers in the mid-1990s. The second is the emergence and growth of the DVD hardware market. In both, we examine indices ranging from the most rudimentary to quality...
- Keyword:
- internet service providers, Hedonic, dvd, quality, growth, and price index
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Gregory A Stranger
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/16/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-10-02
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This thesis contains four essays on the organization (both internal and external) of health care in the US. The first essay examines a mechanism through which individual workers acquire (or maintain) competence, namely that of experience. Specifically, I analyze whether cardiac surgeons who perform more procedures experience an improvement in...
- Keyword:
- Health Sciences
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Subramaniam Ramanarayanan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/14/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-09
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- In this dissertation, I analyse the effectiveness of various political institutions in aggregating private information. In the first two chapters, I consider diversity of information among the voters about given electoral alternatives and examine the conditions under which plurality rule voting aggregates such information. In the third chapter, I consider...
- Keyword:
- Strategic Voting, Debates, Negative Advertising, and Information Aggregation
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Sourav Bhattacharya
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 08/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-08-07
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- The first essay examines how the shift between single-tasking and multitasking influences productivity and workers' bargaining power, and its implications on the distribution of earnings between management and workers. Under single-tasking, a firm can obtain high productivity because workers' hold-up power can provide them with larger incentives to work. In...
- Keyword:
- Business Administration
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Seongwuk Moon
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Modified:
- 07/26/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-14
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- 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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- In the first chapter, I study how political institutions can affect policymaking when the economy is in transition. I develop a framework where a transition process gradually restructures economic institutions so that the population's long-term preference may differ from its short-term preference. A democracy may fail to implement the optimal...
- Keyword:
- Political Economy, Medicaid, Institution, Regulation, and transition
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tapas Kundu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Modified:
- 06/01/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-05-10
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- I examine horizontally differentiated firms in three different contexts. First, I look at an industry where firms can develop self-customizable products -- products which appeal to different consumers for different reasons. This addition results in an unexpected conclusion that sometimes more differentiated firms can end up with lower profits than...
- Keyword:
- intermediaries, spatial models, reservations, horizontal differentiation, two-sided markets, and self-customization
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Alexei Alexandrov
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Modified:
- 05/22/2018
- Date Created:
- 2007-04-27
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation examines various means by which the profit motives of media firms can directly result in biased information transmission. In the first two chapters, I analyze to what extent conflicts of interest in expert review industries may result in artificially inflated reviews, with a particular application to the video...
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- News Slant, Political Polarization, Network Effects, Product Reviews, Information Transmission, and Media Bias
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tomer Hamami
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 04/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation contains two studies. In Chapter 1, I implement a randomized intervention to measure the effect of reminders for timely payment of credit cards. While I find an 13% reduction in the cost of late payment fees paid, 31% of the users that avoid credit card late payments, incur...
- Keyword:
- Household Finance and Behavioral Economics
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Paolina Medina
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/27/2018
- Date Created:
- 2017-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- This dissertation studies a variety of consumer behaviors and their strategic implications for firm profit maximization. The first chapter discusses how bundle pricing (via shipping policies) allows firms to achieve higher profits than component pricing when consumers's tastes for products are correlated. The second chapter illustrates how durable good producers...
- Keyword:
- demand dynamics, bundle pricing, and secondary markets
- Subject:
- Managerial Economics and Strategy
- Creator:
- Tongtong Shi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/20/2018
- Date Created:
- 2016-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation