expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …-efficient quartiles of new cars by +20% and -24%, respectively. In contrast, the same gasoline price increase changes the market shares of …

hedonic methods may overstate the price decline of personal computers. We model computers as a durable good and suppose that … the true price of computer services at the time the machine is purchased with the concurrent level of software. To assess … these theoretical results we estimate the model and find that before 2000 the hedonic price index constructed with BLS …

response to changes in the relative price of the two fuels. In particular, we study the following entities: investor … considered. Using simple back-of-the-envelope calculations, the almost 70% drop in the price of natural gas between June 2008 and …