Author: Yi-Heng Karen ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Three Essays on Industrial Organization
Author: Yi-Heng Karen ChenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Essays in Industrial Organization
Author: Hyunsoo KimPublisher:
ISBN: 9780438299870
Category : Electronic dissertations
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Three Essays in Industrial Organization
Author: Robert E. LeeEssays on Industrial Organization, in Honor of Joe S. Bain
Author: Robert T. MassonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
ESSAYS IN INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION.
Author: Wenjing RuanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The dissertation comprises two chapters in empirical industrial organization with a focus on market structure, competition, and the organizational form of firms. The first chapter studies the determinants of the market structure in the lodging industry where firms are heterogeneous in their quality types. In particular, I develop and estimate a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit to analyze the quality mix of hotels across geographic markets. I find that the entry costs, fixed costs, and competition pattern are important determinants of the quality mix. I use the framework to examine the impact of land use regulation on the quality mix of hotels in the lodging industry. The results suggest that land use regulation asymmetrically increases the sunk entry cost of high-quality hotels and shifts the quality mix of hotels to the low-end. The previous literature points out that land use regulation has anticompetitive effects and hence affects the utilities of consumers. My findings imply that land use regulation further affects consumers through its impact on the quality choice of firms.The second chapter discusses the impact of organizational form on the quality decisions of firms. I estimate the causal impact with the data of four leading brands in the fast-food industry. Fast-food chains have both franchised and company-owned stores. Since the two types of stores face different agency problems (free-riding of franchisees and shirking by store managers), it is unclear which one would offer products with superior quality. After controlling for market-level heterogeneity and endogenizing the organizational forms, I find that company-owned stores generally provide products and services of inferior quality to franchised ones. Additionally, I analyze how monitoring and the degree of repeat customers together affect quality in addition to organizational forms.
Essays on Industrial Organization
Author: Yongbae LeeEssays in Empirical Industrial Organization
Author: Junʼichi SuzukiIndustrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction
Author: Gregory K. DowPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802097022
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
B. Curtis Eaton is one of Canada's leading microeconomists. As an applied economic theorist, Eaton has contributed greatly to industrial organization literature and has also worked in labour economics, economic geography, and organizational theory. The essays in this volume, by former students and present and former colleagues, call attention to the path-breaking work of Professor Eaton. The first two chapters provide a short overview of Eaton's research contributions and argue that his work laid the foundation for important research programs across the country. The remaining chapters, including an unpublished paper by Eaton himself, consist of original work that can be divided into the three broad categories of industrial organization and spatial competition, trade and productivity, and social interaction. Not only a collection of laudatory essays, Industrial Organization, Trade, and Social Interaction presents cutting edge research by leading scholars.
Author: Lorenzo Magnolfi
Author: Steffen Lippert