
Many technology products and platform markets are characterized by indirect network effects. These network effects arise when the benefit from using a product or a service increases with the use of a complementary product or service.…Read More
Many technology products and platform markets are characterized by indirect network effects. These network effects arise when the benefit from using a product or a service increases with the use of a complementary product or service.…Read More
We study how retail stores’ multi-dimensioned service levels affect consumers’ buying behavior in a spatial setting. To this end, we propose the Double Block-Lasso BLP estimator, which combines the double selection procedure introduced in Belloni, Chernozhukov, and Hansen (2014), with demand estimation methods set forth in Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995).…Read More