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, controlling for a host of other influences on price. The estimated effects are statistically and economically significant … condition) see larger price declines than those with shorter remaining lives. These patterns do not seem to be driven solely by …
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expensive for consumers to operate an automobile. In this paper we investigate whether consumers have adjusted to gasoline price … car markets. We find that a $1 increase in gasoline price changes the market shares of the most and least fuel …-efficient quartiles of new cars by +20% and -24%, respectively. In contrast, the same gasoline price increase changes the market shares of …
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Exploiting a rich data set of passenger vehicle registrations in twenty U.S. metropolitan statistical areas from 1997 to 2005, we examine the effects of gasoline prices on the automotive fleet's composition. We find that high gasoline prices affect fleet fuel economy through two channels: (1)...
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This paper focuses on how changes in the economic and regulatory environment have affected production costs and product characteristics in the automobile industry. We estimate cost functions characteristics. Then we examine how this cost surface has changed over time and how these changes relate...
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, and therefore different remaining lifetimes. By seeing how price differences across high and low mileage vehicles of … different fuel economies change in response to shocks to the price of gasoline, we estimate the relationship between vehicle …
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inattention parameter implied by the price discontinuities. In addition, our results suggest that estimating consumer …
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Many consumers are keenly aware of gasoline prices, and consumer responses to gasoline prices have been well studied. In this paper, by contrast, we investigate how gasoline prices affect the automobile industry: manufacturers and dealerships. We estimate how changes in gasoline prices affect...
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lowers prices for two distinct reasons. First, the Internet helps consumers learn the invoice price of …the Internet, also helps consumers obtain lower prices. The combined information and referral price …There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers in …
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Mankiw [1982] explores the Permanent Income Hypothesis implication that durable expenditures follow an ARMA(1,1) representation. He finds that durable expenditures are represented by an AR(1) process which implies that the rate of depreciation of durables, under the PIH model, is 100%. This...
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Despite technological advances, an individual car's emissions still cannot be measured reliably enough to impose a Pigovian tax. This paper explores alternative market incentives that could be used instead. We solve for second-best combinations of uniform taxes on gasoline, engine size, and...
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