Essays In Industrial Organization
| dc.contributor.advisor | Wilson, Wesley | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wood, Nicholas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-18T19:19:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-09-18T19:19:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-09-18 | |
| dc.description.abstract | I investigate the effect to which consumer heterogeneity impacts varying markets. I find that it has a substantial effect all the markets that I consider. In the US automobile industry, we model demand for the durable goods using a dynamic model. We expand upon the current literature by allow households the flexibility to select between different classes of vehicles. In further analysis, I develop a method to incorporate microlevel data into the analysis of the automobile industry. I show that, with this approach, national policy can be targeted at specific groups and regions of the populous. For policies considering the automobile industry, I consider the Cars Allowance Rebate System to evaluate policy effects. Finally, I consider the boom of the U.S. smartphone industry. Using a random coefficients estimator, I find that ignoring consumer specific effects would cause the researcher to drastically misestimate gains, and therefor implement poor policy, in the industry. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/24865 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved. | |
| dc.subject | Cash for Clunkers | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cellphones | en_US |
| dc.subject | Consumer Expenditure Survey | en_US |
| dc.subject | Machine Learning | en_US |
| dc.subject | Structural Modeling | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vertical Product Differentiation | en_US |
| dc.title | Essays In Industrial Organization | |
| dc.type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Department of Economics | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Oregon | |
| thesis.degree.level | doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Ph.D. |
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