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Three essays in empirical industrial organization
Greenfield, Daniel - 2011
The first chapter is titled "Competition and Service Quality: New Evidence from the Airline Industry." This paper examines the relationship between competition and service quality in the airline industry. Using panel data and two different instrumental variable (IV) strategies, it directly...
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International trade policy towards monopoly and oligopoly
Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz Pérez, Juan Manuel - 2009
differentiation the duopoly is subsidized or the government remains inactive. In contrast, the monopoly is always subsidized. The … government with a duopoly may be active or inactive depending on the degree of product differentiation. Thus, we may observe a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530200
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Would Subsidizing a Food Pathogen Vaccine Upset the Food Policy Applecart
Marette, Stephan; Roe, Brian E.; Teisl, Mario F. - 2010
Vaccines against several common foodborne pathogens are being developed and could substantially alter the policy tools available to address foodborne illness. However, little analysis is available to suggest how social welfare would be affected by these new vaccines. To address this void, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446134
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Pollution perception. An inquiry into intergenerational equity
Schuhmacher, Ingmar; Zou, Benteng - 2005
In this article we extend the recent literature on overlapping generations with a pollution sector by allowing generations to have a certain pollution perception with regards to the stock of pollution. Pollution perception, assumed to be part of the generations' preferences, can be either a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009452479
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Regulatory bias in the price structure of local telephone services
Pérez Montes, Carlos - 2012
Incluye bibliografía ; This article combines a discrete choice model of demand for residential local telephone access and an optimal price regulation model to estimate the welfare weights that state regulators place on consumers with different incomes and locations. I fi nd no evidence of a...
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Anticipated shocks, optimal monetary policy, and welfare
Roland Winkler - 2009
Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009428969
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Nonindustrial private forestland owners: Estimating responses to economic and demographic changes
Snider, Anthony Glenn - 2002
This research endeavor consisted of two distinct efforts. First, following a literature review of the characteristics, objectives, and incentive programs available to nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners, the potential effects of wood chip mill harvests on forest management practices...
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14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2000
Autor, David H. - 2000
Presents basic theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level … theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level. In addition to …
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Privatization and performance: Evidence from telecommunications sector
Ariff, Mohamed; Cabanda, E; Sathye, M - 2008
There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises … of telecommunication firms around the world, 4 years before and 4 years after privatization, using two parallel measures … could corroborate stronger evidence for or against maintained hypothesis of performance improvements after privatization …
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On productivity performance gains of Indonesian firms
Viverita,; Ariff, Mohamed - 2008
and revisits policy implications. Practical implications – No one policy fits all in Indonesia for privatization programme …
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