Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3982.

We develop a new approach to discrete choice demand for differentiated products, using copulas to separate the marginal distribution of consumer values for product varieties from their dependence relationship, and apply it to the issue of how preference dependence affects market outcomes in...

A methodology is developed and applied to compare the performance of publicly fundedagencies providing treatment for alcohol abuse in Maine. The methodology estimates aWiener process that determines the duration of completed treatments, while allowing foragency differences in the effectiveness...

In a winner-take-all duopoly market for systems in which firms invest to improvetheir products, a monopoly supplier of an essential system component may havean incentive to advantage itself by technological tying; that is, by designing thecomponent to work better in its own system. If the...

We analyze the optimal design of damages for patent infringement in settings where the patent of an initial innovator may be infringed by a follow-on innovator. We consider damage rules that are linear combinations of the popular "lost profit" (LP) and "unjust enrichment" (UE) rules, coupled...