Rational inattention and energy efficiency

JM Sallee - The Journal of Law and Economics, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper argues that it will often be rational for consumers to pay limited attention to
energy efficiency when choosing among energy-consuming durable goods like automobiles …

The effect of mergers in search markets: Evidence from the Canadian mortgage industry

J Allen, R Clark, JF Houde - American Economic Review, 2014 - aeaweb.org
We examine the relationship between concentration and price dispersion using variation
induced by a merger in the Canadian mortgage market. Since interest rates are determined …

[图书][B] First degree price discrimination using big data

BR Shiller - 2013 - researchgate.net
Person-specific pricing had until recently rarely been observed. The reason, that reservation
values were unobtainable, may no longer be true now that massive datasets tracking …

Search frictions and market power in negotiated-price markets

J Allen, R Clark, JF Houde - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
We provide a framework for empirical analysis of negotiated-price markets. Using mortgage
market data and a search and negotiation model, we characterize the welfare impact of …

[PDF][PDF] Racial bias in police investigations

J West - Retrieved from University of California, Santa Cruz …, 2018 - people.ucsc.edu
Nonrandom selection into police encounters typically complicates evaluations of law
enforcement discrimination. This study overcomes selection concerns by examining …

Inventories and the automobile market

A Copeland, W Dunn, G Hall - The RAND Journal of Economics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This article studies the within‐model‐year pricing, production, and inventory management of
new automobiles. Using new monthly data on US transaction prices, we document that, for …

[PDF][PDF] Transport infrastructure and firm location choice in equilibrium: evidence from Indonesia's highways

AD Rothenberg - … of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2013 - researchgate.net
Transport improvements make it easier for firms to reach customers from a given site,
encouraging them to agglomerate. On the other hand, by expanding access to cheaper …

Advertising in vertical relationships: An equilibrium model of the automobile industry

C Murry - Available at SSRN 2549247, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
I develop and estimate a model of pricing and advertising decisions of new car
manufacturers and dealers. The model highlights a selling effort externality between dealers …

Automobile prices in market equilibrium with unobserved price discrimination

X D'Haultfœuille, I Durrmeyer… - The Review of Economic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In markets where sellers are able to price discriminate, individuals pay different prices that
may be unobserved by the econometrician. This article considers the structural estimation of …

The intergenerational transmission of automobile brand preferences

ST Anderson, R Kellogg, A Langer… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their
adult children, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could …