Estimating Demand Elasticity
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Key Points
- Estimating demand elasticity difficult due to simulaneity of supply and demand.
- Instrumental variables can help.
- Review three papers using three different methods to estimate the same parameter.
Required Readings
Hughes, Knittel and Sperling (2008) [link]Davis and Killian (2011) [link]
Li, Linn and Muehlegger (2014) [link]