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Incorporating Search and Sales Information in Demand Estimation
Hortaçsu, Ali; Natan, Olivia R.; Parsley, Hayden; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We propose an approach to modeling and estimating discrete choice demand that allows for a large number of zero sale observations, rich unobserved heterogeneity, and endogenous prices. We do so by modeling small market sizes through Poisson arrivals. Each of these arriving consumers then solves...
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A Method to Estimate Discrete Choice Models that is Robust to Consumer Search
Abaluck, Jason - 2020
We state a sufficient condition under which choice data alone suffices to identify consumer preferences when choices are not fully informed. Suppose that: (i) the data generating process is a search model in which the attribute hidden to consumers is observed by the econometrician; (ii) if a...
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Identification and Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of a Dynamic Discrete Game
Bajari, Patrick - 2015
In this paper, we study the identification and estimation of a dynamic discrete game allowing for discrete or continuous state variables. We first provide a general nonparametric identification result under the imposition of an exclusion restriction on agent payoffs. Next we analyze large sample...
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Empirical Models of Consumer Behavior
Nevo, Aviv - 2010
Models of consumer behavior play a key role in modern empirical Industrial Organization. In this paper, I survey some of the models used in this literature. In particular, I discuss two commonly used demand systems: multi-stage budgeting approaches and discrete choice models. I motivate their...
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Accounting for Price Endogeneity in Airline Itinerary Choice Models : An Application to Continental U.S. Markets
Lurkin, Virginie - 2016
Network planning models, which forecast the profitability of airline schedules, support many critical decisions, including equipment purchase decisions. Network planning models include an itinerary choice model that is used to allocate air total demand in a city pair to different itineraries....
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Quantifying Brand Loyalty : Evidence from the Cigarette Market
DeCicca, Philip; Kenkel, Donald Scott; Liu, Feng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Reservations. The regime change represents a unique opportunity to quantify brand loyalty because it almost doubled the price of … premium-brand cigarettes, while Native brands were still untaxed. We use data from two different sources--the New York State … three-quarters remained brand loyal …
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Millennials and the Take-Off of Craft Brands : Preference Formation in the U.S. Beer Industry
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dube, Jean-Pierre H.; Joo, Joonhwi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We conduct an empirical case study of the U.S. beer industry to analyze the disruptive effects of locally-manufactured, craft brands on market structure, an increasingly common phenomenon in CPG industries typically attributed to the emerging generation of adult Millennial consumers. We document...
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Fueling Alternatives : Gas Station Choice and the Implications for Electric Charging
Dorsey, Jackson; Langer, Ashley; McRae, Shaun D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper estimates an imperfect information discrete choice model of drivers' refueling preferences and analyzes the implications of these preferences for electric vehicle (EV) adoption. Drivers respond four times more to stations' long-run average prices than to current prices and value...
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Deep Habits
Ravn, Morten - 2004
typically assumed ad-hoc in customer market and brand switching cost models. A central result of the paper is that deep habits …
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Random-Coefficients Logit Demand Estimation with Zero-Valued Market Shares
Dubé, Jean-Pierre H. - 2020
Although typically overlooked, many purchase datasets exhibit a high incidence of products with zero sales. We propose a new estimator for the Random-Coefficients Logit demand system for purchase datasets with zero-valued market shares. The identification of the demand parameters is based on a...
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