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  • Import competition and strategic group behavior

    Creator:
    Nam, Kiseol
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    This study provides the model that first synthesizes strategic group theory with the New Empirical Industrial Organization (NEIO) approach in the international trade analysis, and uses the annual group data (1953-1988) from the U.S. brewing industry with two strategic groups (national producers and regional producers) in the presence of growing...
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    Dissertation
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    Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of

  • The estimation of sunk costs in the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Ko, Jung Teag
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    The purpose of this thesis is to provide an estimate of sunk costs in the U.S. brewing industry and analyze the relationships among sunk costs, advertising, and concentration. The estimation procedures involves three steps: (1) estimation of the market value of new and used plant and equipment per barrel of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Costs in the U.S. Brewing Industry by Jung Teag Ko A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Hedonic prices and country of origin bias in the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Ruttanajarounsub, Ruttana
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    This paper adopts the hedonic price model to study the impact of attributes on beer prices in the U.S. beer market. The price of beer is modeled as a function of beer characteristics. Our primary purpose is to investigate the attributes that lead to premium beer prices. Understanding factors that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Ruttanajarounsub A THESIS Submitted to Oregon State University in partial

  • State excise taxes and public choice : evidence from the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Feng, Hongrong
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    This paper presents a model of the determination of excise tax rates by studying the substantial variation in the state excise taxes in the U.S. brewing industry. Two approaches are used. First, assuming that the government is only interested in the public interest, a socially optimal tax rate is derived....
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    Masters Thesis
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    consistent with the observed pattern of cigarette taxes imposed by state governments in the United States

  • Congressional influence on Department of Justice merger decisions : a case study

    Creator:
    Goodwin, Diana K.
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    The purpose of this study is to analyze the possibility of political influence upon the Department of Justice merger decisions within the brewing industry. Political preference was measured by the congressional ratings of a liberal political action committee, The Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), thus giving a liberalness score. Regressions...
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    Masters Thesis
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    THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

  • Cigarette advertising, price and social welfare : empirical evidence

    Creator:
    Farr, Stephen J.
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    This study estimates the welfare effects of cigarette advertising using the framework posited by Becker and Murphy (1993). This model exposes previously unaccounted benefits of cigarette advertising and allows for conventional social welfare estimation by assimilating the theory of advertising into the general theory of complements. The policy implications of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

  • Efficiency and productivity in U.S. commercial banking : a non-parametric approach

    Creator:
    Onkiso, Abinet
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    In this paper, I estimate efficiency and productivity change in the U.S. banking industry. The data consist of annual observations of 25 banks from 2004 to 2008. The paper follows a two-stage procedure. In the first-stage, utilizing the non-parametric methodologies, input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model and DEA based Malmquist...
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    Masters Thesis
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    by Abinet Onkiso A THESIS Submitted to Oregon State University in

  • Essays on parametric and nonparametric estimation of market structure and tax incidence in the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Pipoblabanan, Chayun
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    This dissertation addresses two main issues involving alcohol markets. In the first, we employ both parametric and nonparametric methods to analyze the market structure and estimate the degree of market power in the U.S. brewing industry. In the nonparametric case, we use the variations in the excise tax to test...
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    Dissertation
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    society, various policies have been implemented by federal, state, and local governments to reduce