Innovationen sind ein kritischer und zentraler Faktor für die nachhaltige Überlebensfähigkeit von Unternehmen und auch Volkswirtschaften. Der stetige Anstieg von Komplexität und Technologieintensität bei Produkten sowie herausfordernde Marktbedingungen erfordern verstärkt...

This dissertation is aiming to find out the impact of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on insurance companies' survival. The events of interest are bankruptcy and acquisition, which are correlated and censor each other. A statistical survival analysis method is developed first and then applied to the...

In the first chapter, we examine the relation between efficiency and competition in a dynamic framework. For this purpose, we measure efficiencies and conduct of the U.S. airlines in two city-pairs. We model the conduct parameter as an unobservable state variable which is an AR(1) process and...

Advisor: Susan Vowels April 23, 2007

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-05, Section: B, page: 3440.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: A, page: 0274.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-02, Section: B, page: 0633.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-06, Section: A, page: 2548.