This article extends the Berry, Levinsohn, Pakes (1995) model to include retail services by Boston supermarkets in an equilibrium model of breakfast cereals and then tests alternative vertical pricing games between manufacturers and supermarkets to ascertain who’s got the pricing power....

This paper provides an original theoretical framework to better understand the raise of private quality standards in agrifood chains. Reasons for the development and conditions for the effectivenessof private quality standards are identified, by investigating firms’ strategic behaviour and,...

The following are abstracts of the three chapters of my doctoral dissertation entitled "Three Essays on Buyer Power Theory, Dominant HMOs, and Technology Transfer."The first chapter of my dissertation is an investigation into technological transfer efficacy, with success defined at specific...

In a bilateral oligopoly where strategic buyers source a good from competing suppliers over time, buyers often have an incentive to sustain competition while suppliers benefit from excluding rival suppliers. We model this situation as a two period asymmetric cost Bertrand duopoly, where in the...

This paper provides theory and evidence examining the importance of information transfers in international trade. Information is modeled as an endogenous fixed cost of trade that enters as input into market-specific product appeal. Differences in bilateral communication costs, information...

This study analyses and compares the theories relating to advertising and competition in economics literature with their operation in the market-place, and with the attitudes and pronouncements of public policy towards advertising and competition. A survey of the main literature in economic...

Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (MCOOL) was implemented on seafood in the United States on April 4, 2005. MCOOL exempts the foodservice sector and excludes processed seafood from labeling. This paper contributes to understanding the economics of the MCOOL law for seafood by showing that...

Die Dissertationsarbeit hat zum Ziel, die Gültigkeit der Aussagen eines außenhandelstheoretischen Ansatzes der Neo-Heckscher-Ohlin-Modellklasse in der realen Welt zu überprüfen. Der gewählte Modellierungstyp erlaubt die Koexistenz internationalen intra- und inter-industriellen Handels. Da...

This dissertation consists of two essays. The first essay is a study of strategic firm competition in a differentiated product environment. We develop a tractable spatial model of oligopolistic competition in which firms endogenously determine both franchise/product locations and prices....

This study examines vertical product differentiation within the Big 4 audit firms in the Australian audit market and potential pricing effects resulting from this differentiation. Assuming a competitive Big 4 audit market, systematically higher prices pertaining to one particular Big 4 audit...