Search for dissertations about: "competitive markets"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 125 swedish dissertations containing the words competitive markets.

  2. 1. Asset ownership in imperfectly competitive markets

    Author : Lars Persson; Dan Kovenock; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : My dissertation consists of a collection of essays on assets ownership in concentrated markets.The first chapter, Endogenous Mergers in Concentrated Markets, predicts the pattern of mergers in situations where different mergers are feasible. The merger literature almost exclusively considers mergers between exogenously specified firms. READ MORE

  4. 2. On Matching Markets

    Author : Jens Gudmundsson; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This thesis gives a contribution to matching theory. It examines three one-to-one matching models: the roommate problem, the partnership formation problem and the assignment game. In the former two, it is known that stable matchings may not exist. In the latter, stable outcomes do exist; we examine if they still do if we generalize the model. READ MORE

  5. 3. On competitive markets and intertemporal resource allocation

    Author : Lars E. O. Svensson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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  6. 4. Essays in Industry Dynamics on Imperfectly Competitive Markets

    Author : Florin G. Maican; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industry dynamics; imperfect competition; dynamic oligopoly model; productivity dynamics; service markets; structural estimation; R D; IT services; retail food;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four empirical essays on imperfectly competitive markets. Entry of large (“big-box”) stores along with a drastic fall in the total number of stores is a striking trend in retail markets. The first essay uses a dynamic structural model to estimate total factor productivity in retail. READ MORE

  7. 5. From Personal to Impersonal Exchange in Ideas : Experimental Study of Trade in Organized Markets for Patents

    Author : Eskil Ullberg; Björn Hårsman; Thomas W. Hazlett; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; experimental economics; patent markets; patents; mechanism design; linear contracts; institutional design; patent system design; economic system design; development policy; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Abstract : The patent system has developed over a period of over 500 years. The initial motivation was a desire to import privately held technology to advance economic development, offering excluding and transferrable rights through licensing to “inventors” for the disclosure and perfection of their “contrivance” (invention). READ MORE