Essays on the Economics of Technology Adoption and Quality Upgrading

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Xu, Daniel Yi

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Roberts, James

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Yang, Kelly

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2024-06-06T13:45:34Z

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2024-06-06T13:45:34Z

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2024

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Economics

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This dissertation contains three essays related to the economics of technology adoption and quality upgrading. The first essay studies technology adoption with firm-specific learning-by-doing and examines the trade-off between scale economy and variety in a real-world regulation in the health care market. The second essay evaluates the impact of ownership structure changes on service offerings and the adoption of profitable technologies in the context of private equity acquisition of US hospitals. The third essay analyzes the complementarity in technology adoption and quality upgrading decisions among manufacturing firms through the production network.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/30936

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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Economics

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Essays on the Economics of Technology Adoption and Quality Upgrading

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Dissertation

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