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The Evolution of Market Power in the US Auto Industry

Grieco, Paul L. E.; Murry, Charles; Yurukoglu, Ali - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We construct measures of industry performance and welfare in the U.S. car and light truck market from 1980-2018. We estimate a differentiated products demand model for this market using product level data on market shares, prices, and product characteristics, and consumer level data on...

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Automobile Prices and Quality : Did the Gasoline Price Increase Change Consumer Tastes in the U.S.?

Ohta, Makoto - 1983

Did the 1973 and 1979 gasoline price rises change consumer views about the relative quality of different cars? This question is investigated by testing the null hypothesis that imputed characteristic prices have remained constant over time. A hedonic model that takes gasoline costs into account...

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Customers and Retail Growth

Einav, Liran; Klenow, Peter J.; Levin, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

accounting for sales variation across merchants, across stores within retail chains, and over time for individual merchants and … stores. Customers, as opposed to transactions per customer or dollar sales per transaction, consistently account for about 80 …% of sales variation. The top 1% of growing and shrinking merchants account for about 70% of customer and sales …

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The Effects of Oil Price Changes on the Industry-Level Production and Prices in the U.S. and Japan

Fukunaga, Ichiro - 2010

In this paper, we decompose oil price changes into their component parts following Kilian (2009) and estimate the dynamic effects of each component on industry-level production and prices in the U.S. and Japan using identified VAR models. The way oil price changes affect each industry depends on...

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Pass-Through of Input Cost Shocks Under Imperfect Competition : Evidence from the U.S. Fracking Boom

Muehlegger, Erich - 2017

The advent of hydraulic fracturing lead to a dramatic increase in US oil production. Due to regulatory, shipping and processing constraints, this sudden surge in domestic drilling caused an unprecedented divergence in crude acquisition costs across US refineries. We take advantage of this...

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Pandemic, War, Inflation : Oil Markets at a Crossroads?

Baumeister, Christiane - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had profound effects on the global energy landscape, with some of the longer-lasting effects still unfolding. This paper discusses how these events have reshaped the supply side of the global oil market by focusing on...

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Oil Prices, Monetary Policy and Inflation Surges

Gagliardone, Luca; Gertler, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop a simple quantitative New Keynesian model aimed at accounting for the recent sudden and persistent rise in inflation, with emphasis on the role of oil shocks and accommodative monetary policy. The model features oil as a complementary good for households and as a complementary input...

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Gains from Trade in Differentiated Products : Japanese Compact Trucks

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1986

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Cyclical Behavior of Prices and Quantities in the Automobile Market

Blanchard, Olivier J. - 1984

This paper has a simple goal, that of understanding the joint behaviorof prices and quantities in a particular market. More precisely, it examines whether we can find decision problems for suppliers and buyers, together with a market equilibrium structure, which are consistent with the observed...

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Durables and Lemons : Private Information and the Market for Cars

Blundell, Richard - 2019

We specify an equilibrium model of car ownership with private information where individuals sell and purchase new and second-hand cars over their life-cycle. Private information induces a transaction cost and distorts the market reducing the value of a car as a savings instrument. We estimate...

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