Industry Consolidation and Price: Evidence from the U.S. Linerboard Industry

Macroeconomic Shocks and Malaysian Tourism Industry: Evidence from a Structural VAR Model

Abstract   his study employs a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model to investigate the macroeconomic shocks on Malaysian tourism industry, especially how the economy dynamically responds to oil price shocks, exchange rates, changes in price level, exports, economic growth and tourism income during the study time period from January 2001 to December 2012. The results indicate that oil...

Inventory, Price, and Output in the Linerboard Industry

The U.S. apparel industry: a supply chain review

The U.S. apparel industry has been in a transition over the last 20 years: significant consolidation in retail, majority of apparel manufacturing operations moving overseas, and more recently, increasing use of electronic commerce in retail and wholesale trade. This paper aims to review the current state of operations and recent trends across the apparel supply chain in the U.S. We use industry...

Paying a Premium on your Premium? Consolidation in the U.S. Health Insurance Industry By Leemore Dafny,

We examine whether and to what extent consolidation in the U.S. health insurance industry has contributed to higher employer-sponsored insurance premiums. We exploit the differential impact across local markets of a large national merger of two insurers to identify the causal effect of concentration on premiums. Using data for large groups, we estimate premiums in the average market were approx...

Measuring the effect of cold storage, captive supply, and concentration on the marketing margin in the U.S. pork industry

Liu, Yuhang MS, Purdue University, December 2016. Measuring the Effect of Cold Storage, Captive Supply, and Concentration on the Marketing Margin in the U.S. Pork Industry. Major Professor: Kenneth A. Foster. This study investigates the implication of key decision variables at the control of processing firms in a concentrated industry. Succinctly, the decisions examined affect the firm’s abilit...