Did the 1973 and 1979 gasoline price rises change consumer views about the relative quality of different cars? This … effect of gasoline price increases but also for the effects of changes in other prices and income, we develop two alternative … fraction of the coefficient change that did occur during this period can be attributed to the gasoline price increase alone …

This paper examines the relationship between drug price and drug quality and how it varies across two of the most … standards and price control mechanisms (MES+PC). Through a simple model of adverse selection we model the interaction between … greater incentives to produce high quality drugs. Second, an MES+PC mix reduces the difference in price between the highest …

hedonic methods may overstate the price decline of personal computers. We model computers as a durable good and suppose that … the true price of computer services at the time the machine is purchased with the concurrent level of software. To assess … these theoretical results we estimate the model and find that before 2000 the hedonic price index constructed with BLS …