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First mover or higher quality? Optimal product strategy in markets with positive feedbacks
(Simon and SchusterWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-03)
Conventional wisdom holds that in markets with positive feedbacks being first to market can matter more than product quality. In this paper, we test that intuition within a generalized Pólya urn model. We find that if we ...
Strategic Pricing in Service Industries.
(2015)
This dissertation studies several strategic-level pricing decisions of firms that are motivated by recent changes of pricing policies in several service industries. It consists of three essays, each analyzing a different ...
Liquidation In Limit Order Books With Controlled Intensity
(Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications. Boston, MA: BirkhäuserWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-10)
Mental representation and the discovery of new strategies
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2016-10)
Bringing Home the Crisis: How US Evening News Framed the 2011 Japan Nuclear Crisis
(RoutledgeWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-09)
When is Society Susceptible to Manipulation?
(2019)
We consider a social learning model where agents learn about an underlying state of the world from individual observations as well as from exchanging information with each other. A principal (e.g. a firm or a government) ...
Essays in International Trade and Financial Development.
(2014)
In the first chapter, I explore the effect of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on the composition of international trade. The model allows a new channel by which IPRs may affect welfare such that cross-country incentives ...
Where is the Hospitality in Your Library?
(2020-03-06)
In the library and information fields, we spend countless hours focusing on making our world a more self-service environment. While many patrons much prefer to work independently and easily find resources on their own, we ...
Collection finances in Koha for new users : we did it--and you can, too!
(2017-09-08)
Come learn more about one academic library’s recent experience in implementing and migrating collection finances into Koha! Topics to be covered include basic configuration, fund accounting, invoice payment, standing ...