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Essays on information economics

Creator:: Youn, Hyungho
Abstract:: This dissertation addresses three topics on information economics. Generally, information is not perfect or costless as classical economics assumes. Thus, a consumer searches information at his cost or a seller provides information at his cost. First, chapter 2 presents a theoretical model where a consumer searches for local brand information....
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Full Text:: Effect of Advertising Cost on Price and Advertising Strategy ..................44 3.4 Conclusion

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

Creator:: Iwasaki, Natsuko
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: issues of oligopoly markets where advertising plays a prominent role. The first study empirically

Essays on the implications of firm behaviors in learning, locating, and advertising

Creator:: Palangkaraya, Alfons
Abstract:: 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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Full Text:: Implications of Firm Behaviors in Learning, Locating, and Advertising Abstract approved: Rolf Fare This

Essays on strategic behavior in supermodular settings : lobbying, advertising and price

Creator:: Kudo, Yasushi
Abstract:: 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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Full Text:: , we examine the effect of generic advertising on a firm’s brand advertising and profits. Some

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

Creator:: Isariyawongse, Kosin
Abstract:: 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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Full Text:: is purely informative. That is, brand advertising lowers consumer search costs of identifying brand

Essays on the use of distance functions in empirical studies : efficiency measurement and beyond

Creator:: Vardanyan, Mikayel
Abstract:: This dissertation explores the intricacies associated with the use of distance functions in empirical studies. It focuses on the measurement of advertising efficiency and investigates the properties of the models that seek to approximate the abatement costs of socially undesirable outputs. The first manuscript is devoted to the development of...
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Full Text:: focuses on the measurement of advertising efficiency and investigates the properties of the models that

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Creator:: Kellar, Brenda M.
Abstract:: The use of honey bees to pollinate apple orchards seems natural, even inevitable. This dissertation examines the relationship of beekeeping and apple growing in Hood River, Oregon in the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, as a case study in the development of commercial pollination service. Within this time period the...
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Full Text:: 3 Glen Gendzel, "What the Progressives Had in Common," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Creator:: Harper, Kristine C.
Abstract:: American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
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Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Kristine C. Harper for the

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Creator:: Richards, Linda Marie
Abstract:: The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Technocratic Narrative” Peace and Change Journal of Peace History 38, no.1 (January 2013): 56-82. 3

Making sense : journals as tools for learning and representing student experience in a field-based doctoral program

Creator:: Smith, Sharon L.
Abstract:: Recent trends in higher education have led to the development of alternatives to traditional on-campus graduate degree programs. There is a concomitant need to understand student experience in field-based programs which support continuing education and career development for employed adults. The central purpose of this research was to explore the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: communicates something about how I perceive both journal writing and the analysis of journals. Journal

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Essays on information economics

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

Essays on the implications of firm behaviors in learning, locating, and advertising

Essays on strategic behavior in supermodular settings : lobbying, advertising and price

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

Essays on the use of distance functions in empirical studies : efficiency measurement and beyond

Honey Bees and Apple Trees : Hood River, Oregon as a Case Study for the Creation of the Honey Bee Pollination Industry

Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

Making sense : journals as tools for learning and representing student experience in a field-based doctoral program

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