D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier, Durrmeyer, Isis and Février, Philippe (2017) Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium with Unobserved Price Discrimination. TSE Working Paper, n. 17-854, Toulouse

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Abstract

In markets where sellers are able to price discriminate, individuals pay different prices that may be unobserved by the econometrician. This paper considers the structural estimation of a demand and supply model à la Berry et al. (1995) with such price discrimination and limited information on prices taking the form of, e.g., observing list prices from catalogues or average prices. Within this framework, identification is achieved by using supply-side conditions, provided that the marginal costs of producing and selling the goods do not depend on the characteristics of the buyers. The model can be estimated by GMM using a nested fixed point algorithm that extends BLP’s algorithm to our setting. We apply our methodology to estimate the demand and supply in the French new automobile market. Our results suggest that discounting arising from price discrimination is important. The average discount is estimated to be 9.6%, with large variation depending on buyers’ characteristics and cars’ specifications. Our results are consistent with other evidence on transaction prices in France.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: October 2017
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Uncontrolled Keywords: demand and supply, unobserved transaction prices, price discrimination, automobiles
JEL Classification: C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
D12 - Consumer Economics - Empirical Analysis
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2018 07:46
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2021 15:57
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:32136
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25722

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