In this thesis, we study nonparametric identification of first-price auction models and propose a semi-nonparametric simulated integratedmoment estimation method to recover the underlying value distribution.In the first essay, we investigate the nonparametric identification of the first-price...

This dissertation investigates the entry and exit dynamics on the local telephone market and the cable television markets. An important feature pertaining to the study of these markets is the large amount of capital investment in building local telephone networks or cable television system...