In this work I integrate some of my recent research developments in the theory and
practice of Productivity and Efficiency Analysis of Economic Systems. In
particular, I present some new theoretical relationships betwe ...
This dissertation addresses three topics on applied microeconomics. First, we investigate issues of market power and tax incidence in the U.S. brewing industry. Since alcohol consumption can be addictive, we derive a str ...
This dissertation addresses three topics on the implications of firm behaviors
in creating and adopting knowledge of production, choosing international location
for production and market access, and using informative a ...
This dissertation explores the intricacies associated with the use of distance
functions in empirical studies. It focuses on the measurement of advertising
efficiency and investigates the properties of the models that ...
This study focuses on the development of new, non-parametric efficiency measures based on the idea of aggregation via merging functions. We use Shephard's (1970) axiomatic approach of distance functions as the basis for ...
