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Incorporating Micro Data into Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP / Christopher Conlon, Jeff Gortmaker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conlon, Christopher.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w31605.
- NBER working paper series no. w31605
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2023.
- Summary:
- We provide a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend best practices for BLP estimation in Conlon and Gortmaker (2020) to the case with micro data and implement them in our open-source package PyBLP. Monte Carlo experiments and empirical examples suggest that incorporating micro data can substantially improve the finite sample performance of the BLP estimator, particularly when using well-targeted summary statistics or "optimal micro moments" that we derive and show how to compute.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2023.
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