Showing 1 - 10 of 319
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140995
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096478
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)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758243
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017929
inattention parameter implied by the price discontinuities. In addition, our results suggest that estimating consumer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240320
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149704
prices for two distinct reasons. First, the Internet helps consumers learn the invoice price ofdealers. Second, the referral …There is convincing evidence that the Internet has lowered the prices paid by some consumers inestablished industries … Internet lowers prices. This paper answers this questionfor the auto retailing industry. We use direct measures of search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222988
A key rationale for fiscal stimulus is to boost consumption when aggregate demand is perceived to be inefficiently low. We examine the ability of the government to increase consumption by evaluating the impact of the 2009 "Cash for Clunkers" program on short and medium run auto purchases. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138317
Heavier vehicles are safer for their own occupants but more hazardous for the occupants of other vehicles. In this paper we estimate the increased probability of fatalities from being hit by a heavier vehicle in a collision. We show that, controlling for own-vehicle weight, being hit by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123307