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Standard discrete choice models such as logit, nested logit, and random coefficients models place very strong restrictions on how unobservable product space increases with the number of products. We argue (and show with Monte Carlo experiments) that these restrictions can lead to biased...
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We argue that narrow framing, whereby an agent who is offered a new gamble evaluates that gamble in isolation, separately from other risks she already faces, may be a more important feature of decision-making under risk than previously realized. To demonstrate this, we present evidence on...
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From its inception, demand estimation has faced the problem of "many prices." This paper provides estimators of average … demand and associated bounds on exact consumer surplus when there are many prices in cross-section or panel data. For cross … "zeros problem" of demand. For panel data we provide bias corrected, ridge regularized estimators of average coefficients and …
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This paper uses fare changes in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey to estimate the price elasticity of demand for …
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elasticity of the demand for the output and the impact of demand and cost shifters. The use of this framework helps, in the first … way to assess the welfare effects of firms' innovative actions by estimating their impact on both cost and demand. We show …
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other products by an unusually low elasticity of demand with respect to product failure. While consumers in other markets … potential cures accumulated over time. Because no one was ever cured and consumers possessed a highly inelastic demand with … respect to product failures, demand was unrelenting. In short, patent medicines flourished not despite their dubious medicinal …
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demand, the size of the price change, and the degree of frictions. The degree of frictions is measured by the utility losses …
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The dramatic increase in gasoline prices from close to $1 in 1999 to $4 at their peak in 2008 made it much more expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price changes by altering what automobiles they purchase and...
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This paper estimates the price elasticity of demand for alcohol using Health and Retirement Survey data. To account for …
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Most new consumer durable goods experience rapid prices declines and quality improvements, suggesting the importance of modeling dynamics. This paper specifies a dynamic model of consumer preferences for new durable goods with persistently heterogeneous consumer tastes, rational expectations,...
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