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  • New non-parametric efficiency measures : an application to the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    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 theoretical methodology. In particular, this approach is a background for non-parametric efficiency measures defined on a linearly...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Application to the U.S. Brewing Industry. Abstract approved: Rolf Fare This study focuses on the

  • Essays on the implications of firm behaviors in learning, locating, and advertising

    Creator:
    Palangkaraya, Alfons
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    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 advertising in a market competition with multidimensional product characteristics. The first study investigates the empirical evidence of local knowledge spillovers in...
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    Dissertation
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    Implications of Firm Behaviors in Learning, Locating, and Advertising Abstract approved: Rolf Fare This

  • Essays on applied microeconomics

    Creator:
    Noh, Dong Woon
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    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 structural econometric model of addiction from a dynamic oligopoly game. This model identifies the degree of market power...
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    Dissertation
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    : Essays on Applied Microeconomics Abstract approved: R lf Fare/Shawna Grosskopf This dissertation

  • Essays on the use of distance functions in empirical studies : efficiency measurement and beyond

    Creator:
    Vardanyan, Mikayel
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    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 seek to approximate the abatement costs of socially undesirable outputs. The first manuscript is devoted to the development of...
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    Dissertation
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    , Fare et al. (2004) show how one can use data envelopment analysis (DEA) to characterize marketing

  • Essays in efficiency and productivity analysis of economic systems

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    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 between various measures of efficiency and productivity, propose new solutions to some aggregation problems in efficiency analysis and...
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    Dissertation
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    valuable comments. In addition, I would like to thank Rolf Fare for spending hundreds of hours of his time

  • Smooth nonparametric conditional quantile profit function estimation

    Creator:
    Piskunov, Anton
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    Recently, in an attempt to produce robust production frontier estimators, Aragon et al. [2005, Nonparametric frontier estimation: a conditional quantile-based approach. Econometric Theory 21, 358-389] and Martins-Filho and Yao [2008, A smooth nonparametric conditional quantile frontier estimator. Journal of Econometrics 143, 317-333] considered the estimation of nonparametric α- frontier models...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ) are defined respectively as g(x) = sup{y ∈ <+ : (x, y) ∈ Ψ, x ∈

  • Measuring efficiency and explaining failures in banking : application to the Russian banking sector

    Creator:
    Konstandina, Natalia V.
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    This study has two main objectives. First, we propose an alternative way for treating deposits in modeling a banking firm, which account for both their input and output features. Second, we contribute to modeling failures in the banking sector by distinguishing three groups of factors affecting failures: bank level, industry...
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    Dissertation
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    am also indebted to my committee members Rolf Färe and Vic Tremblay

  • Essays on strategic behavior in supermodular settings : lobbying, advertising and price

    Creator:
    Kudo, Yasushi
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    This dissertation addresses issues of strategic behavior of firms in lobbying, brand and generic advertising, and advertising-price relationships in imperfectly competitive markets. In the first study, we investigate conditions under which lobbying can improve social welfare and show that this type of lobbying will be undersupplied from society’s perspective. We...
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    dissertation committee, Dr. Janet Lee, Dr. Rolf Färe, Dr. Andrew Stivers, and Dr. Carol Tremblay for

  • Essays on environmental productivity

    Creator:
    Bellenger, Moriah J., 1980-
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    The following three essays explore the use of the directional output distance function (Chambers et al., 1996), an economic model originally developed to measure efficiency and productivity for multi-input and multi-output production processes, to assess performance for multi-attributed environmental processes. The first essay illustrates the use of the directional output...
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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am sincerely grateful to Shawna Grosskopf and Rolf Färe for their generos- ity as teachers, and

  • Essays in semiparametric econometrics

    Creator:
    Livingston, Olga Voyteshenko
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    Two essays are focused on semiparametric econometric methods. The first essay investigates applicability of the smooth back tting estimator (SBE) to statistical analysis of residential energy consumption. The second essay attempts to incorporate additivity restrictions into semiparametric stochastic frontier estimation. The procedure described in the first study is used to...
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    Dissertation