Are Consumers Myopic? Evidence from New and Used Car Purchases

We investigate whether car buyers are myopic about future fuel costs. We estimate the effect of gasoline prices on short-run equilibrium prices of cars of different fuel economies. We then compare the implied changes in willingness-to-pay to the associated changes in expected future gasoline costs f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Busse, Meghan R, Zettelmeyer, Florian, Knittel, Christopher Roland
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87769
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-8641