In this dissertation, I explore bidders’ behavior in multiple auctions which are conducted sequentially or simultaneously. The first and the second chapters examine buyers’ bidding behaviors in an environment of multiple simultaneous auctions and show that the wildly-used assumption of proxy...

In Chapter 1, I analyze a setting where a pair of retailers which sell unrelated products at the same location (e.g., a strip mall) compete with other retailers located at a different strip mall across town by jointly introducing a bundling discount while independently setting their respective...

This dissertation consists of three chapters relating to various topics in empirical Industrial Organization. The first two chapters deal with the empirical treatment of sales in online markets. The third chapter explores the level of pass-through for taxes on soft drinks. In the first chapter...

This dissertation consists of three chapters relating to dynamic demand models of storable goods and their application to taxes that are imposed on soft drinks. Broadly speaking, the first chapter builds the estimation strategy for dynamic demand models of storable goods that allows for...

This dissertation is composed of two related chapters dealing with research and development. I evaluate the effects of the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit on the Chemicals Industry andthen examine the determinants of research joint ventures and technological licenses.The first chapter...