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  • 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

  • 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 ∈

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dynamic issues in applied microeconomics: market performance, market structure and advertising competition

    Creator:
    Iwasaki, Natsuko
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    This dissertation addresses issues of oligopoly markets where advertising plays a prominent role. The first study empirically investigates the effect of advertising regulations on equilibrium consumption of an addictive commodity using U.S. cigarette industry data. The results of the first study show that the advertising regulations reduced cigarette consumption by...
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    Dissertation
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    ideas and assistance in all aspects of this dissertation. Dr. Rolf Färe and Dr. Shawna Grosskopf

  • The Chinese banking industry : efficiency, concentration, and profitability

    Creator:
    Lu, Keyi
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    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...
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    Masters Thesis
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    For further discussion, see, Färe and Grosskopf (1996, 2004). 9 5. Data and Results I

  • An analysis of technical efficiency and productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmill industry

    Creator:
    Helvoigt, Ted L.
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    The objective of this project was to investigate technical efficiency and productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmilling industry over the period 1968-2002. Productivity growth was decomposed into three components: technical change, efficiency change, and scale efficiency change. In addition, using econometric methods, changes in output elasticities and input substitution...
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