Download or read book Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation written by Pablo Coto-Millán and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation aims to serve as a source and work of reference and consultation for the field of Microeconomics in general and of Industrial Organisation in particular. The book consists of four parts: Demand, Production and Costs (Supply), Market and Industrial Structure, and Failures of Market and Industrial Regulation. It combines theoretical concepts and a variety of empirical cases.

Download or read book Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation written by Pablo Coto-Millán and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2003-11-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Microeconomics and Industrial Organisation aim to serve as a source and work of reference and consultation for the field of Microeconomics in general and of Industrial Organisation in particular. Traditionally, Microeconomics is essentially taught as theory and hardly ever an estimation of a demand, production and cost function is offered . Over the last two decades, however, Microeconomics has greatly broadened its field of empirical application. Therefore, this text combines microeconomic theories with a variety of empirical cases. The standardised microeconomic analysis of demand, production and costs is set forth along with appropriate econometric techniques. The text consists of four parts: Demand, Production and Costs (Supply), Market and Industrial Structure and Failure of Market and Industrial Regulation. It includes eleven new chapters with respect to the first edition.

Download or read book Essays in Econometrics and Industrial Organization written by Nikolay Doudchenko and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my dissertation I study econometric methods of causal inference with a particular focus on the use of prediction methods developed by researchers in the fields of statistical learning, machine learning, and pattern recognition. I'm also interested in the application of these methods as well as the more traditional ones to answer relevant policy questions. Chapter 1 (joint with Guido Imbens) considers the synthetic control method developed by Abadie, Diamond, Gardeazabal, and Hainmueller in several influential papers. The method is designed for estimating the effect of a treatment, in the presence of a single treated unit and a number of control units, with pre-treatment outcomes observed for all units. The method constructs a set of weights such that selected covariates and pre-treatment outcomes of the treated unit are approximately matched by a weighted average of the control units (the synthetic control). The weights are restricted to be nonnegative and sum to one. These restrictions are important partly because they make it easier for the procedure to obtain unique weights even when the number of lagged outcomes is modest relative to the number of control units, a common setting in applications. In the chapter we propose a generalization of the synthetic control procedure that allows the weights to be negative, and their sum to differ from one, and that allows for a permanent additive difference between the treated unit and the controls, similar to the difference-in-difference procedures. The weights directly minimize the distance between the lagged outcomes for the treated and the control units, using elastic net regularization to deal with a potentially large number of possible control units. In Chapter 2 (joint with Ali Yurukoglu) we quantify how bargaining power derived from firm size affects the analysis of downstream mergers and the profitability of downstream entry in the multichannel television industry. We estimate an empirical model of the industry which features negotiations between the upstream content producers and the downstream distributors of varying size. We estimate that large distributors like Comcast are able to negotiate about 25% lower content fees than smaller downstream firms such as Cablevision. We evaluate the short-run welfare effects of several recently reviewed mergers taking into account the size effects in negotiations. We also assess the degree to which size based bargaining power creates contracts which are a barrier to entry for new distributors.

Download or read book Essays on Industrial Organization written by Igal Enrique Hendel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I show how these effects can be distinguished from each other empirically. I use individual-level Nielsen data to analyze the effects of tune-in ads for television shows. I find that the consideration set effect of advertising is significant and large in my data, while other effects of advertising are minor, with important implications for firms' advertising strategies. In the third essay (joint with Bharat Anand), we focus on systematic heterogeneity in firms' valuations. We decompose overall variation in firms' excess values into diversification discount, systematic heterogeneity (firm random effects) and temporary shocks. We find that the magnitude of systematic heterogeneity is large in absolute terms, and large relative to the mean diversification discount. This highlights the importance of understanding the fundamental drivers of such systematic differences in performance, and suggests that the value consequences of diversification (which have attracted a lot of attention in the literature) are relatively minor compared to other systematic determinants of firm value.

Download or read book Essays on Industrial Organization Intellectual Property and Econometrics written by Shuo Chen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second essay shows that when estimating time-series regressions of unknown functional form, multicollinearity can make regressions very sensitive to small misspecifications of nonlinear relationships. This essay shows that a simple seminonparametric estimator can help to solve this problem. Specifically, adding a flexible time trend to the regression model will give significantly less biased OLS estimators, even if the model remains misspecified. This is because the trend is now fitted directly, so the other explanatory variables need to fit only fluctuations around the trend. A consistency result is proven, and Monte Carlo experiments are used to illustrate the approach.

Download or read book Essays in Industrial Organization and Econometrics written by Fanyin Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays, two on estimating dynamic entry games and one on the inference for misspecified models with fixed regressors.

Download or read book Essays in Financial Econometrics and Quantitative Industrial Organization written by Soheil Rashid Nadimi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of one essay in financial econometrics and two essays in quantitative industrial organization. The first essay studies the relationship between stock return volatility and current and prior shocks to oil price volatility. We study the behavior of aggregate stock markets as well as individual industry sectors. Our results show that lagged stock return volatility is the main determinant of current stock return volatility in aggregate markets, with oil price volatility providing no additional information that can be used to forecast stock return volatility. For individual industry sectors, we find a robust and stable prediction relationship only for the chemicals industry. Additional estimation exercises confirm the robustness of these results. The second essay uses a Bertrand-Nash price-competition framework to models a vertically integrated provider (VIP) that is a monopoly supplier of an essential input for downstream production. An input price that is "too high" can lead to inefficient foreclosure and one that is "too low" creates incentives for nonprice discrimination. The range of non-exclusionary input prices is circumscribed by the input prices generated on the basis of upper-bound and lower-bound displacement ratios. The admissible range of the ratio of downstream to upstream "price-cost" margins for the VIP is increasing in the degree of product differentiation and reduces to a single ratio in the limit as the products become perfectly homogeneous. The third essay explores the relationship between upstream input prices and downstream market exclusion under a Stackelberg quantity-competition framework. Market exclusion is a concern when input prices are "too high" and "too low" because it can result in inefficient foreclosure and sabotage, respectively. Consistent with the results obtained in the second essay, the safe harbor range of downstream to upstream "price-cost" margin ratios is decreasing in the degree of product homogeneity and approaches a single ratio in the limit as the products become perfectly homogeneous. This single margin ratio preserves equality between the VIP's wholesale and retail "price-cost" margins. A key finding for competition policy is that the bounds of non-exclusionary input prices are markedly wider under Bertrand-Nash competition than they are under Stackelberg competition. Hence, it is critical that the antitrust and regulatory authorities understand the nature of the industry competition so that rules governing permissible conduct are properly calibrated to yield efficient outcomes.

Download or read book Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield written by Albert N. Link and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Mansfield was a research pioneer into the economics of R and D and technological change. As appreciation and remembrance for his scholarly contributions, eminent scholars have contributed original papers for this edited volume. The authors have followed the "Mansfieldian” approach of emphasizing economic insight and intuition over mathematical rigor and as a result are very accessable. Essays in Honor of Edwin Mansfield has the potential to serve as a reader in all advanced undergraduate and graduate classes/seminars in the economics of R and D and technological change. This edited volume will be the definitive work in the field.

Download or read book Essays on New Institutional Economics written by Rudolf Richter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays comprises some of Rudolf Richter’s important contributions to research on New Institutional Economics (NIE). It deals with the central idea, principles, and methodology of New Institutional Economics and explores its relation to sociology and law. Other chapters examine applications of NIE to various microeconomic and macroeconomic issues in the face of uncertainty, from entrepreneurship to the euro crisis.

Download or read book Competition in Europe written by P. de Wolf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competition in Europe, which has been chosen as the title for the Essays in Honour of Henk W. de Jong, contains two key concepts, that characterize his scientific contribution to Industrial Organisation. Professor H.W. de Jong is in the first place an economist who is highly inspired by the dynamics of markets in general and the dynamics and conditions of compe tition in particular. In the second place, H.W. de Jong is a real European economist, not in the sense that his theoretical insights are limited to Europe, but in the sense that his ideas and policy suggestions - especially those concerning competition policy - reflect his sincere involvement in the European inte gration process and the economic conditions and perspectives of a Common Market for the European Community. In his many illustrations of the evolution of markets and the performance of enterprises in different business environments, H.W. de Jong also demonstrates his knowledge of historical and political aspects of different economies in Europe, often in comparison with the United States and Japan.

Download or read book Essays on Econometrics and Planning written by C. R. Rao and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on Econometrics and Planning provides a compilation of papers pertinent to econometrics and planning. This book covers a variety of topics, including competition, planner's capital, parametric solution and programming, economic system, and economic growth. Organized into 22 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the concepts of cooperation, conflict, exploitation, and competition in relation to economic system. This text then examines the status of economic planning in Great Britain and provides an analysis of the role of autonomous investment in the economy. Other chapters consider the monetary or financial aspects of the Soviet economy. This book discusses as well the aspects in which the planners have a social location and economic preferences different from those of the mass of citizens in the underdeveloped country. The final chapter deals with the problem of national development. This book is a valuable resource for economists, industrialists, economic planners, and academic socialists.

Download or read book Welfare Aspects of Industrial Markets written by A P Jacquemin and published by . This book was released on 1977-07-31 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Spatial Econometrics and Empirical Industrial Organization written by Sang-Yeob Lee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The first essay explores the consequences of misspecified spatial interdependence structure in SAR models with a row-normalized weight matrix. I provide the analytical formulae for the asymptotic biases of the OLS estimator when a spatial weight matrix is over-specified, under-specified, or omitted in a simple linear regression model. I then design Monte Carlo experiments to study how a misspecified spatial weight matrix in the SAR model might impact the finite sample properties of the 2SLSE and MLE. The major finding is that an "over-specification" of the weight matrix causes less bias in 2SLSE and MLE as well as lower RMSE than an "under-specification." The results also strongly suggest that goodness of fit measures such as adjusted R-square and log-likelihood can serve as selection criteria for the choice of a spatial weight matrix. In the second essay, I consider the effectiveness of Wald, distance difference, minimum Chi-square, and gradient tests within GMM framework in selecting different specifications of spatial weights in SAR models. The two major results I obtain are (1) that for each of the five tests, GMM framework significantly improves the empirical power of the tests over 2SLS framework, and (2) that when performed in GMM framework, all five tests have suitable empirical size and power with similar performance outcomes. Finally, the third essay investigates the nature of competition in the retail gasoline market using a two year panel data of weekly prices for gas stations in San Diego County. I use IV methods to estimate several spatial autoregressive (SAR) models of stations' price reaction functions after specifying spatial weights based on distance between stations. By using the SAR model, I am able to identify that the brand of competing stations and their relative geographic proximity to the original station are important factors in explaining price variation across gasoline stations, as opposed to just the number of competing stations.

Download or read book Essays in Industrial Econometrics written by Lawrence Robert Klein and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Behavioral Models in Industrial Organizations and Econometrics written by Eric Edward Ayzenshtat and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Econometric Models for Industrial Organization written by Matthew Shum and published by World Scientific Lecture Notes. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Economic Models for Industrial Organization focuses on the specification and estimation of econometric models for research in industrial organization. In recent decades, empirical work in industrial organization has moved towards dynamic and equilibrium models, involving econometric methods which have features distinct from those used in other areas of applied economics. These lecture notes, aimed for a first or second-year PhD course, motivate and explain these econometric methods, starting from simple models and building to models with the complexity observed in typical research papers. The covered topics include discrete-choice demand analysis, models of dynamic behavior and dynamic games, multiple equilibria in entry games and partial identification, and auction models." -- Publisher's description

Download or read book Essays in Econometrics and Random Matrix Theory written by Matthew C. Harding and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation develops new econometric procedures for the analysis of high-dimensional datasets commonly encountered in finance, macroeconomics or industrial organization. First, I show that traditional approaches to the estimation of latent factors in financial data underestimate the number of risk factors. They are also biased towards a single market factor, the importance of which is overestimated in samples. In Chapter 3, I derive a new consistent procedure for the estimation of the number of latent factors by examining the effect of the idiosyncratic noise in a factor model. Furthermore, I show that the estimation of factor loadings by Principal Components Analysis is inconsistent for weak factors and suggest alternative Instrumental Variables procedures. Chapter 4 uses the theoretical results of the earlier chapters to estimate the stochastic dimension of the US economy and shows that global risk factors may obfuscate the relationship between inflation and unemployment. Chapter 5 (co-authored with Jerry Hausman) suggests a new procedure for the estimation of discrete choice models with random coe±cients and shows that ignoring individual taste heterogeneity can lead to misleading policy counterfactuals.