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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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    Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of

  • Cost structure of the local telecommunications industry

    Creator:
    Gainutdinova, Olesya
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    Using a panel data set on the local telecommunications companies reporting to the FCC for 1988-95, this paper investigates the subadditivity of the cost function, as well as technical and allocative inefficiency of the U.S. local telephone industry. The subadditivity test on the estimated translog cost function indicates that certain...
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    to Oregon State University In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of

  • Code-sharing in the U.S. airline industry

    Creator:
    Du, Yan
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    This dissertation consists of two essays that address code-sharing alliances in the U.S. domestic airline industry. The first essay examines the economic impact of code-sharing using data from the complementary code-sharing agreement between Southwest and ATA Airlines. This code-share agreement is found to decrease air fares and increase passenger volumes...
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    the U.S. Airline Industry by Yan Du A DISSERTATION Submitted to Oregon State University

  • 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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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the

  • 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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    society, various policies have been implemented by federal, state, and local governments to reduce

  • Topics in applied microeconomics : estimating the value of commercial land and testing the efficiency of the U.S. Motor Carrier industry

    Creator:
    Lee, Man-keung
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    This thesis consists of two essays on applied microeconomics issues. The first essay presents a hedonic price econometric model of vacant commercial land. The second essay presents cost frontier analysis on the industry and firm's performance of the U.S. Motor Carrier industry. Our hedonic price econometric model includes two new...
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    by Man-keung Lee A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment