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Information Disclosure, Competition and the Behavior of Firms: Evidence from Nursing Homes

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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)...

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Economics and General

Subject:

Managerial Economics and Strategy

Creator:

Susan Feng Lu

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/20/2018

Date Modified:

09/20/2018

Date Created:

2008-12-05

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Essays in Operations Economics

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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

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

07/25/2018

Date Modified:

07/25/2018

Date Created:

2007-05-14

Resource Type:

Dissertation