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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:: Game Theory is the branch of applied mathematics that studies the strategic interaction among intelligent agents. So far, standard Game Theory literature has interpreted "intelligent agents" exclusively as "rational agents". This work points out that this interpretation is an important limitation since intelligence consists of more abilities, some of which...
Keyword:: Economics and General
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Arnau Bages Amat
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/20/2018
Date Modified:: 09/20/2018
Date Created:: 2008-12-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation explores price differences observed in the market. While some differences are necessitated by market conditions, the others are strategic. I illustrate the former in a study of electricity spot markets in Italy and the latter for the video rental industry. The first project examines the welfare gains from...
Keyword:: Economics and General
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Viswanath Pingali
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/16/2018
Date Modified:: 08/16/2018
Date Created:: 2007-07-23
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Angiogenesis, the formation of blood vessels from a pre-existing vasculature, is a process whereby capillary sprouts are formed in response to chemical stimuli that can be either supplied externally or produced locally. Understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that govern angiogenesis suggests a powerful therapeutic approach that will allow to combat...
Keyword:: General and Biophysics
Subject:: Applied Mathematics
Creator:: Anna Tikhomirov
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/14/2018
Date Modified:: 08/14/2018
Date Created:: 2007-07-30
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: This dissertation develops dynamic models to examine markets with product differentiation where both firm conduct and consumer behavior is jointly influenced by switching costs, network effects and technological innovation. In Chapter 1 I propose a structural model of competition where firms set prices, introduce new products and scrap obsolete models....
Keyword:: Economics and General
Subject:: Economics
Creator:: Joao Carlos Macieira
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/13/2018
Date Modified:: 08/13/2018
Date Created:: 2007-06-20
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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