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  • 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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    am also indebted to my committee members Rolf Färe and Vic Tremblay

  • An economic model of search and matching in international trade

    Creator:
    Zhang, Xin
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    Small manufacturing firms often serve a domestic market but would like to expand their sales overseas. It is difficult for a small firm to develop overseas contracts and relationships, however, in part because of their small size, and because the advantages of their products may not always be obvious. The...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Durham, Dr. Rolf Fare and Dr. Jeffrey Barden for their valuable comments and suggestions. I also want

  • 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

  • International comparison and evaluation of agricultural productivity growth

    Creator:
    Rada, Nicholas E.
    Abstract:
    Long-run food price changes respond to long-run changes in food demand, quasi-fixed and variable production factors, and agricultural productivity. Recent global food-price volatility puts a renewed spotlight on the trends and sources of any agricultural productivity growth. Because food prices’ most critical effects are on human hunger, it is especially...
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    motivation. For this I am indebted. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of Rolf Färe, whose humor 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

  • Three essays on constrained markets

    Creator:
    Siegel, Ryan
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    The three essays in this dissertation progressively answer the following questions: (a) How important are constraints? (b) Who benefits from removing constraints? (c) When does a constraint for a single market predominantly affect closely related markets? These questions are applied in the context of time, weather, and minimum wage constraints,...
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    Dissertation
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    my committee members, Rolf Färe, Steve Buccola, Enrique Thomann, and John Sessions, who offered so

  • 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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    grateful to Dr. Rolf Färe for helping me think critically and asking fundamental questions about my