This paper analyzes the association between two firm performance measures: stock market returns and relative technical efficiency. Using linear programming techniques (Data Envelopment Analysis and Free Disposal Hull), technical efficiencies are calculated for a panel of eleven US airlines...

Local governments' allocation decisions are modeled in the context of a slack maximizing bureaucrat who produces public goods according to a production function that includes both provision and the constituents' socio-economic characteristics. To gain a better understanding of the determinants...

The research presented in this paper focuses on the recent onset of price wars in the airline industry while accommodating multimarket contact, multiple products, and a dispersed price distribution. An important innovation in this study is in developing a price war definition using a rank...

The dissertation is composed of three papers on institutions and development, with special focus on Vietnam. The first paper, "Club Good and Contract Enforcement," investigates the contract enforcement power of the communities whose members participate voluntarily. By investing in club goods,...

This article presents a theoretical and empirical model to examine competition in physician private practices implementing a conjectural variation framework. Our study uses the 1998 American Medical Association Physician Socioeconomic Monitoring Survey and tests for collusion and market power in...

We model the economically optimal dynamicoil production decisions of a representative country whose oilfields resemble the largest developed oil field in Saudi Arabia,Ghawar. A government-controlled enterprise may base its oil productiondecisions on criteria other than maximization of the...