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The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study optimal simple rating systems that partition sellers into a finite number of tiers. We show that optimal ratings must be threshold partitions, and that for linear supply and Cournot competition with constant marginal cost, optimal thresholds solve a k‐means clustering problem requiring only the quality distribution.
Hugo Hopenhayn, Maryam Saeedi
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Pointwise nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of stochastically ordered survivor functions. [PDF]
Biometrika, 2012 Park Y, Taylor JM, Kalbfleisch JD.
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Lurking Patent Claims and Strategic Royalty Contracts
The Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes optimal licensing contracts when a licensee faces the risk of future infringement claims by unknown patent holders. In a setting where a noncompeting licensor contracts with a monopolistic manufacturer, fixed‐fee licensing is optimal absent such claims.
Jay Pil Choi
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Analytic results on the bias due to nondifferential misclassification of a binary mediator. [PDF]
Am J Epidemiol, 2012 Ogburn EL, VanderWeele TJ.
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Journal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This study explores how geographical distance between adult children of immigrants and their parents changes in response to partnership formation and partnership dissolution. Background Geographical distance between generations is a key factor in intergenerational support.
Alon Pertzikovitz +3 more
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Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using two approaches, we contribute to sub‐national economic performance measurement by netting out the influence of a region's performance on its industries. The first approach measures performance using technical efficiency and involves introducing the first multilevel spatial stochastic frontier model.
Anthony J. Glass, Karligash Kenjegalieva
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Estimation of a discrete monotone distribution. [PDF]
Electron J Stat, 2009 Jankowski HK, Wellner JA.
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Journal of Time Series Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a new formulation of the Vašičekmodel within the framework of functional data analysis. We treat observations (continuous‐time rates) within a suitably defined trading day as a single statistical object. We then consider a sequence of such objects, indexed by day.
Piotr Kokoszka +4 more
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