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A Study to Determine the Incentives of Companies In Their Decisions to Either Sponsor or Not to Sponsor Professional Sports Teams
Rolling, David Mark - 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine the incentives of companies in either sponsoring or not sponsoring professional sports teams. The review of literature regarding the identification of incentives to sponsor professional sports teams revealed a lack of attention to this aspect....
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Productivity growth, convergence, and distribution dynamics in the Kansas farm sector
Mugera, Amin William - 2009
convergence in the Kansas farm sector for a panel of 564 farms for the period 1993-2007. The study seeks to answer two questions …: First, what are the sources of labor productivity growth in the farm sector and second, is there evidence of convergence or … linear model, and smooth coefficient model) are later employed to test for convergence in labor productivity growth and the …
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Organizational structures in international high value food chains : evidence from Latin America
Otter, Verena - 2014 - 1. Aufl.
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Economic aspects of the improvement and marketing of an orphan crop: Ricebean in India and Nepal
Bürgelt, Doreen - 2011 - 1. Aufl.
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Essays on Privacy, Information, and Anonymous Transactions
Wagman, Liad - 2009
This dissertation uses game theoretic models to examine the effects of agent anonymity on markets for goods and for information. In open, anonymous settings, such as the Internet, anonymity is relatively easy to obtain --- oftentimes another email address is sufficient. By becoming anonymous,...
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PRODUCT VARIETY, SERVICE VARIETY, AND THEIR IMPACT ON DISTRIBUTORS
Wan, Xiang - 2011
Despite considerable research relating to product variety, few studies have analyzed the impact of product variety on distributors. Furthermore, compared to research on product variety, service variety has been overlooked in the literature. This dissertation consists of three essays: Essay One...
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ESSAYS IN EMPIRICAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Chesnes, Matthew William - 2009
Chapter 1: Capacity and Utilization Choice in the US Oil Refining IndustryThis paper presents a new dynamic model of the operating and investmentdecisions of US oil refiners. The model enables me to predict how shocks to crudeoil prices and refinery shutdowns (e.g., in response to hurricanes)...
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