Chapter 2 deals with a linear city model à la Hotelling where the two firms share linear transport costs with their customers. Mill pricing and uniform delivery pricing are special limiting cases. We characterize the conditions for the existence of a pure strategy equilibrium in the two-stage...

This dissertation is an investigation into the determinants of demand for service contracts on new vehicles. In the first chapter, I characterize the consumer decision to buy a service contract with a discrete choice model. Hypotheses and conjectures are tested empirically using survey data from...

A large part of the empirical work on differentiated products markets has focused ondemand estimation and the pricing behavior of firms. These two themes are key inputsin important applications such as the merging of two firms or the introduction of newproducts. The validity of inferences,...

Significant resources by government and the private sector are being invested in broadband infrastructure to increase broadband deployment and utilization. Using a unique dataset of broadband availability by county, we assess whether broadband infrastructure affected industrial competitiveness...