Crawford, Gregory S.; Shcherbakov, Oleksandr; Shum, Matthew - 2015 - This draft: August 19, 2015
We measure the welfare consequences of endogenous quality choice in imperfectly competitive markets. We introduce the concept of a "quality markup" and measure the relative welfare consequences of market power over price and quality. For U.S. paid-television markets during 1997-2006, we find...