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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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    uses the annual group data (1953 ­ 1988) from the U.S. brewing industry with two strategic groups

  • State excise taxes and public choice : evidence from the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Feng, Hongrong
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    This paper presents a model of the determination of excise tax rates by studying the substantial variation in the state excise taxes in the U.S. brewing industry. Two approaches are used. First, assuming that the government is only interested in the public interest, a socially optimal tax rate is derived....
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    Masters Thesis
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    State Excise Taxes and Public Choice: Evidence from the U. S. Brewing Industry by Hongrong Feng

  • The estimation of sunk costs in the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Ko, Jung Teag
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    The purpose of this thesis is to provide an estimate of sunk costs in the U.S. brewing industry and analyze the relationships among sunk costs, advertising, and concentration. The estimation procedures involves three steps: (1) estimation of the market value of new and used plant and equipment per barrel of...
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    Costs in the U.S. Brewing Industry by Jung Teag Ko A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in

  • 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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    U.S. cigarette industry data. The results of the first study show that the advertising regulations

  • New non-parametric efficiency measures : an application to the U.S. brewing industry

    Creator:
    Zelenyuk, Valentin
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    This study focuses on the development of new, non-parametric efficiency measures based on the idea of aggregation via merging functions. We use Shephard's (1970) axiomatic approach of distance functions as the basis for theoretical methodology. In particular, this approach is a background for non-parametric efficiency measures defined on a linearly...
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    industry they state that "... it appears that the massive exit of firms in brewing during the 1960s and

  • How environmental regulations affect productivity of U.S. and Mexican primary iron & steel and aluminum industries

    Creator:
    Hackenbruck, Satenik
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    Many economists believe that the slowdown of the productivity growth rates in the U.S. economy in early 1970's was a consequence of the increased level of environmental regulations. The main reason presented in support of this argument is that increased environmental regulations impose an additional burden to the firms, thus...
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    Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science

  • The Economic effects of trade liberalization under oligopoly

    Creator:
    Cho, Bong-Jae
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    In modern economies, national governments have a wide range of policies for restricting international trade and protecting domestic industries at their disposal. The most popular form of non-tariff trade policies is probably that of a direct quantitative restriction. This policy takes two principal forms: explicit import quotas and voluntary export...
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    industry must be further liberalized to acquire additional domestic benefits under a VER policy, whereas

  • 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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    Industry: 1953-2003…………………………….. 31 2.2 Real Beer Prices, State Taxes, Federal Taxes and Total

  • The comparison of productivity growth in the U.S. and Mexican food processing sectors

    Creator:
    Alpay, Ebru
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    In this study, the rates of technological change in food processing sectors of U.S. and Mexico are compared through econometric estimation of both the unrestricted (long-run) and restricted (short-run) profit functions with first order autocorrelation correction. Then, the dual rate of productivity growth is computed and decomposed into its sources....
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    of shipment in the entire manufacturing, followed by machinery and equipment industry (OECD