This dissertation investigates the productive performance of the private manufacturing sector of Egypt, particularly within the context of economic reforms undertaken since the early 1990s. Beginning in 1991, the Egyptian government implemented reforms to achieve macroeconomic stabilization and...

I formalize growth ideas that go beyond rates of factor accumulation to also include the fact that countries may differ in technology and institutions. The first essay explores the empirical finding that cross-country convergence is also accompanied by significant relative income shifts...

An analysis of strategic behavior and consumer surplus in eBay auctions. This essay presents structural estimates of bidding behavior in eBay computer monitor auctions. The entry of bidders is taken as exogenous and treated as another parameter in the estimation. The source of our data is the...

This study builds on an ever growing health demand and retirement literature. I extend the literature on structural models by developing and estimating a stochastic model that jointly considers health status, retirement and consumption in a life-cycle framework. I also use a number of...

Bilateral air service agreements have determined the nature of international air services through regulation of entry, service quality and pricing. Negotiations for such treaties reflect each government's aim to gain at least an equivalent right before granting certain traffic rights to the...

In the first chapter, we examine the relation between efficiency and competition in a dynamic framework. For this purpose, we measure efficiencies and conduct of the U.S. airlines in two city-pairs. We model the conduct parameter as an unobservable state variable which is an AR(1) process and...

In the first chapter, we consider the logistic regression model with an integrated regressor. In particular, we derive the limit distributions of the nonlinear least squares (NLS) estimators and their t-ratios. It is shown that the NLS estimators are generally not efficient. Moreover, the...

This dissertation explores two important issues in the determination of U.S. airline fares: inflation and market power.The first essay deals with the accurate measurement of inflation in the U.S. airline industry by calculating a quality adjusted price index for airfares. This calculation is...

This dissertation is comprised of three separate essays that share a similar theme: physician private practices.The first essay revisits prior research that has proposed a general framework for physician cost function estimation. The econometric specification is a multi-product cost function,...

This study provides an overview of the Neoclassical theory of production as well as topics on market structure. It analyzes transportation costs, pricing, and economies of scale that determine production concentration and emphasizes the need of studies that would analyze possible effects if a...