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  • 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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    . APPENDICES Appendix A 37 Appendix B 39 LIST OF TABLES TABLES A. Regression Results B

  • 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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    (1995b) Appendix B for a thorough proof. 6 Tobacco manufacture seems to have normal returns compared to

  • Essays on strategic behavior in oligopoly markets : advertising, output, and price competition

    Creator:
    Isariyawongse, Kosin
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    This dissertation addresses issues of strategic behavior of firms in oligopoly markets. In the first study we analyze how generic advertising affects brand advertising and firm profits in differentiated oligopoly markets. We develop two models, one with vertical differentiation and another with horizontal differentiation. In the case of vertical differentiation,...
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    Dissertation
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    for firm i = 1, 2: , (2.3) ( )i i iP g Q Bπ = − − i

  • The behavior of economic agents and market performance

    Creator:
    Gokhale, Jayendra
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    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...
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    Dissertation
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    ................................................................................................92 Appendix B Abnormal Returns and Cumulative Abnormal Returns for Four Events of Toyota with

  • 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
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    = + = + − , the profit function becomes ( )( ), 1 2 , ,1 1i p i p i p jp b b L p bp xπ = + + − − + − .iL The