In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for …, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media. In the spring of 2003, French business people even reported that … the boycott calls were hurting their U.S. sales. Using a dataset of sales of nearly 4,700 individual wine brands, we show …

accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, 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 …

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 …