Dynamic Analysis of Marketing Systems [antikvár]

Acknowledgements This thesis is the result of my research at the Department of Economics of the University of Groningen. I would like to mention only a few of the people who have been helpful in conducting the research because there are too many to mention all. First of all, I would like to thank my promoters Peter Leeflang and Dick Wittink for their support during my Ph.D. I am greatful to my co-promoter Jaap Wieringa. It has been a great pleasure to work with Jaap and to learn from him. I thank Pieter Otter for his help in the first two years and for the interest in my research later on. The members of my promotiecommisie, Marnik Dekimpe, Phillip Hans Franses, and Ton Steerneman are gratefully acknowledged for carefully reading the manuscript. I would like to thank my colleagues at the Department of Marketing and Market Research and at the Department of Econometrics for their personal and scientific support. I thank Péter Tallos who had a big impact on the trajectory of my life and on the fact that I turned to research in particular. Furthermore, I thank Jan Jacobs for his continuous help in VAR modeling. I am greatful to Marcel Kornelis with whom I wrote a paper that is the basis of Chapters 2 and 3. I would like to thank Albert van Dijk, Ewald Hoppen, Frederieke ten Kleij, Erik Leertouwer, Frank van Oort, Auke Plantinga, Zsolt Sándor, Károly Takács, Erik Talens, Kristine Vlagsma, Hakan Yetkiner, and Evelien Zengerink for our scientific and less scientific discussions. Thanks go to Malgozata Szafraniec and Michel Westenberg for their assistance in making the invitation card. I am deeply indebted to my parents and my brother who always accepted and encouraged my decisions. Writting a thesis at the same time as my Mother gave extra incentives. I am greatful to Mark Thissen for his help in the process of finishing the thesis (support with the outlook of the thesis, handling bureaucratic obsticles, and translating the dutch summary), for being always there for me for better or for worse, and for helping finding peace. Csilla Horváth