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    • Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      Firms communicate product quality attributes to consumers through a variety of channels, such as pricing, advertising, releases of research reports and test results, or warranties and returns policies. The conceptualization ...
    • Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      We examine the interplay of imperfect competition and incomplete information in the context of price competition among firms producing horizontally- and vertically-differentiated substitute products. We find that incomplete ...
    • McGuire, Stephen John (2005-12-05)
      Department: Management of Technology
      While ISO 9000 has been shown to improve internal metrics of firm performance, external measurements may be unaffected. This thesis examines the economic value of ISO 9000 by assessing the equity returns and risk parameters ...
    • Balossi, Matthew C.; Hernandez, Natalia R. (Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-04)
    • Daughety, Andrew F.; Reinganum, Jennifer F. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      In this paper we examine the behavior of a firm that produces a product with a privately-observed safety attribute; that is, consumers cannot observe directly the product¬πs safety. The firm may, at a cost, disclose its ...
    • Charbonneau, Deborah H.; Hightower, Shonee; Katz, Anne; Zhang, Ke; Abrams, Judith; Senft, Nicole; Beebe-Dimmer, Jennifer L.; Heath, Elisabeth; Eaton, Tara; Thompson, Hayley S. (Digital Health, 2020-02)
      Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the state of smartphone applications for cancer intended for the general public with a focus on interactive features, content sources, and application developer ...