Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimensions:structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...

This dissertation is about the U.S. automobile industry. In the first part, I study an environmental policy that ascribes a fee or a rebate to each new vehicle in the marketplace, depending on the vehicle’s fuel economy ...

Establishing the importance of marketing at the corporate strategy level in enhancing firm strategic outcomes, in particular, firm value, is critical to the advancement of the marketing profession. In this research, I ...

This research presents three essays on the effects of different institutions, technologies, and policies on informational outcomes, political support, and consumer welfare using experimental and structural research designs. ...

This dissertation provides theoretical findings and empirical results that contribute to the area of structural auction models. The first chapter studies entry behaviors in procurement auctions with incomplete contracts ...