Price discrimination and price sensitivity in the car market
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The model in Verboven (2002) is extended to include non-zero price elasticities and behavior in the fuel market is modelled explicitly. With the use of simulations it is shown, that this makes quite a difference and, therefore, might lead to bias in parameter estimates
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