Essays in Industrial Organization

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2015

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Mazur, Lawrence Joseph

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Sweeting, Andrew

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This dissertation extends the economics literature in industrial organization with three empirical essays on the strategic decisions of firms in imperfectly competitive markets. Using data from the U.S. airline industry, I combine reduced-form analysis with recent econometric advances in the estimation of dynamic games to examine the market-level and industry-level behavior of oligopolistic firms. The first essay presents a framework for sensitivity analysis in merger simulation. The second essay continues the market-level analysis of merger effects by examining how airline mergers influence price dispersion. The third essay shifts focus to industry-level investment behavior, examining the role played by bankruptcy policy in disciplining capital investment.

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Mazur, Lawrence Joseph (2015). Essays in Industrial Organization. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/9973.

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