behavior in the car market. We show that a social planner can use leasing contracts to improve welfare but they are imperfect … tools; they cannot generally achieve first best while other mechanisms can. We also show that a producer with market power … can benefit from leasing contracts for two reasons: better pricing of the option of keeping the used good, and market …

the demand and suppoly for labor-intensive care. Many economists have argued that aging will raise the market demand for … long-term care, and hence price and quantity through classic market effects. We argue that the direct effect of aging is to … lower the demand for market care by incresing the supply of home production. By influencing the length of frail lifetimes …

approximates Harris' (1954) market-potential function. The estimation results show how far demand linkages extend across space and …

We consider nonparametric identification in models of differentiated products markets, using only market level … models widely used in applied work. We allow for product/market-specific unobservables, endogenous product characteristics (e …

utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage … market determines intrahousehold allocation of resources. Following marriage households (married or single) save, supply …

In a dynamic environment where underlying competition is "for the market," this paper examines what happens when … entrants and incumbents can instead negotiate for the market. For instance, this might arise when an entrant innovator can …

introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …