Essays in microeconomics

Riegel, Max

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URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-708355
Document Type:	Doctoral dissertation
Year of publication:	2025
Place of publication:	Mannheim
University:	Universität Mannheim
Evaluator:	Schutz, Nicolas
Date of oral examination:	2025
Publication language:	English
Institution:	Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics) School of Law and Economics > VWL, Empirische Ökonomik (Schutz 2019-)
Subject:	330 Economics
Keywords (English):	product design , vertical differentiation , consumer search , one-stop-shopping , specialization , multiproduct competition , gender composition , positional concerns , last-place aversion
Abstract:	In the first chapter, I study pricing and product design choices of multiproduct firms in a duopoly model of directed search. In the second chapter, I study how consumer preferences for one-stop shopping affect the resource allocation of multiproduct firms. In the third chapter, joint with Duk Gyoo Kim, we investigate the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank–inequality tradeoff.