To investigate how fuel economy is valued in the Indian car market, we compute the cost to Indian consumers of … hedonic price functions for four market segments (petrol hatchbacks, diesel hatchbacks, petrol sedans, and diesel sedans) to … associated present value of fuel savings falls within the 95 percent confidence interval for some specifications, in all market …

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within … their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market … advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and taste heterogeneity all matter for market outcomes, we find that a …

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 …

Digital platforms like Uber can enhance market transparency and mitigate moral hazard via ratings of buyers and sellers …

Recent empirical work finds a negative correlation between product market regulation and aggregate employment. We … examine the effect of product market regulations on hours worked in a benchmark aggregate model of time allocation. We find … that product market regulations affect time devoted to market work in effectively the same fashion as do taxes on labor …

the seemingly failure of the private insurance market to provide coverage for terrorism losses after the attack on … September 11, 2001. This paper surveys the evidence of the supposed private market failures after 9/11 and the arguments for …

We study short-term market risks implied by weekly S&P 500 index options. The introduction of weekly options has … short-term risks. Such short-dated options provide an easy and direct way to study market volatility and jump risks. Unlike … shape of the negative market jump tail risk which is not spanned by market volatility. Incidents of such tail shape shifts …

market imperfections. Consistent with differences in institutions and in the industrial relations system in the two countries … simultaneously product and labor market imperfections, this paper quantifies industry differences in both types of imperfections … Hall's econometric framework for estimating price-cost margins by nesting three labor market settings (perfect competition …

utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and …We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable … the labor market. They then match based on the economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …