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"The Best Price You'll Ever Get" The 2005 Employee Discount Pricing Promotions in the U.S. Automobile Industry

Busse, Meghan R. - 2007

record sales months for each of the Big Three firms, suggesting that customers thought that the prices offered during the …

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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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Empirical Evidence for Collusion in the U.S. Auto Market?

Lambson, Val Eugene - 1992

A supergame theoretic price-setting model of collusion is calibrated to data from the North American passenger car market before, during, and after the voluntary restraint arrangements (VRAs) with Japan. Conclusions about whether the model is consistent with the bans from the various regimes...

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Exchange Rates and U.S. Auto Competitiveness

Richardson, J. David - 1987

measured by the consumer price index, and why in Japan, average prices on auto sales to the U.S. rose much faster than other …

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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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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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Oil, Automobiles, and the U.S. Economy : How Much have Things Really Changed?

Ramey, Valerie A. - 2010

This paper studies the impact of oil shocks on the U.S. economy--and on the motor vehicle industry in particular--and re-examines whether the relationship has changed over time. We find remarkable stability in the response of aggregate real variables to oil shocks once we account for the extra...

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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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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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