Estimation of Random-Coefficient Demand Models: Two Empiricists' Perspective

We document the numerical challenges we experienced estimating random-coefficient demand models as in Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) using two well-known data sets and a thorough optimization design. The optimization algorithms often converge at points where the first- and second-order optimalit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Metaxoglou, Konstantinos, Knittel, Christopher Roland
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87770
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7654-8641