Are lemons really hot potatoes?
We model the hazard rate for car ownership spells. Our model allows us to distinguish among different types of adverse selection effects by observing the type of unobserved heterogeneity across owners of the same car. Our empirical results strongly suggest that there is a lemons effect because there is significant unobserved heterogeneity. However, they also suggest that the lemons effect is caused by the first owner rather than the manufacturer. Had the manufacturer created the lemon, the unobserved heterogeneity would be positively correlated over all owners of a given car. Instead we observe a negative correlation between the unobserved heterogeneity term for the first owner and the unobserved heterogeneity term for subsequent owners.
Year of publication: |
2009
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Authors: | Engers, Maxim ; Hartmann, Monica ; Stern, Steven |
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International Journal of Industrial Organization. - Elsevier, ISSN 0167-7187. - Vol. 27.2009, 2, p. 250-263
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Subject: | Adverse selection Hazard rates Automobiles |
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