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Creator:: Kudo, Yasushi
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: dissertation committee, Dr. Janet Lee, Dr. Rolf Färe, Dr. Andrew Stivers, and Dr. Carol Tremblay for

Creator:: Gokhale, Jayendra
Abstract:: This dissertation addresses issues concerning the behavior of firms, which has significant effects on performance. In the first study, we empirically investigate the effect of the reduction in number of firms on price competition in the U.S. macro-brewing industry. The number of macro brewing firms decreased from 766 in 1935...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: grateful to Dr. Rolf Färe for helping me think critically and asking fundamental questions about my

Creator:: Yan, Wenfeng
Abstract:: This dissertation investigates the effect of endogenous and exogenous events on firm behavior and performance. These are fundamental questions in economics. The contribution of this study is threefold. First, it provides estimates of the impact of mergers on railroad efficiency, which has important antitrust implications. Second, it provides new estimates...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: dissertation. Dr. Wesley Wilson and Dr. Rolf Färe helped with Chapter 3. Jayendra Gokhale helped with

Creator:: Youn, Hyungho
Abstract:: This dissertation addresses three topics on information economics. Generally, information is not perfect or costless as classical economics assumes. Thus, a consumer searches information at his cost or a seller provides information at his cost. First, chapter 2 presents a theoretical model where a consumer searches for local brand information....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: advice and suggestions in chapter 2 and 3, and also helped writing of those chapters. Professor Rolf

Creator:: Lu, Keyi
Abstract:: High concentration and low efficiency have plagued the Chinese banking industry since the establishment of the national banking system in China. Recently, foreign banks have been allowed to enter the Chinese market, and small and medium-sized commercial banks have expanded their market share. At the same time, Chinese bank efficiency...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: For further discussion, see, Färe and Grosskopf (1996, 2004). 9 5. Data and Results I

Creator:: Onkiso, Abinet
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Farrell (1957) and further enhanced by Banker, Charnes and Cooper (BCC) (1984) and by Färe, Grosskopf

Creator:: Algursan, Assem S.
Abstract:: This dissertation focuses on the behavior of security returns around certain events that occurred in the Saudi stock market. In the first study, we measure and analyze the reaction of security returns around a major horizontal merger that occurred in the banking industry in Saudi Arabia. The objective of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Tremblay, Dr. Rolf Färe, Dr. Qinglai Meng, Dr. Patrick Emerson, and Dr. Donald Neubaum for their

Creator:: Okonkwo, Charles
Abstract:: America is said to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. With the unfair treatment of people of color in this country, however, one would believe that somewhere in the fine print, they were excluded from that phrase. The very foundation of this country was...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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