Now showing items 21-30 of 704
Learning Algorithms for Stochastic Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control.
(2016)
This dissertation considers joint pricing and inventory control problems in which the customer's response to selling price and the demand distribution are not known a priori, and the only available information for ...
Dividend (Vol. 39, No. 2, Fall, 2008)
(Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2008)
Synthesis and performance of a thermosetting resin: Acrylated epoxidized soybean oil curing with a rosin‐based acrylamide
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-03-05)
A synthesized rosin‐based polymeric monomer, N‐dehydroabietic acrylamide (DHA‐AM), was introduced into an acrylated epoxidized soybean oil (AESO)/DHA‐AM system to afford a thermosetting resin through thermocuring. Different ...
When Finance Meets Trade: Three Essays in International Economics.
(2016)
This dissertation examines international capital mobility, focusing on equity and debt markets. I not only study the determinants and patterns observed in capital markets, but also investigate how capital flows affect and ...
Essays on the Role of Customer Expectation in Service Markets.
(2016)
Customer expectations have been considered as customers' pre-purchase beliefs or evaluative beliefs about a product or service. When making a choice, customers first construct their expectations of what is to come whenever ...
Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
Essays on Financial Contracting and Asymmetric Information.
(2014)
This dissertation comprises three essays on financial contracting and intermediation under information asymmetry. They examine both some of the asymmetric information problems that contracts can mitigate as well as some ...
Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets.
(2015)
This dissertation uses microeconomic theory to examine learning and beliefs in markets that are not centralized, in order to refine our knowledge of how information asymmetries affect market outcomes. I approach problems ...
Strategic Reviews
(2020)
The impact of product reviews on consumer purchasing behavior is empirically well documented. This can create perverse incentives for firms to offer reviewers side payments ("bribes") in exchange for biased reviews for ...