Revisiting the Identification of the Conduct Parameter in Homogeneous Goods Markets
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| author | Matsumura, Yuri Otani, Suguru |
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| contents | We revisit the identification of the conduct parameter in homogeneous goods markets. Lau (1982) argues that the conduct parameter is not identified if and only if the inverse demand function is separable, except for a specific separable function. This result has been regarded as an extension of the result in Bresnahan (1982) to more general settings. However, we show that Lau's claim is incorrect and provide a new characterization of the non-identification. Our characterization shows that a demand function with demand rotation instruments is the necessary and sufficient condition for the identification of the conduct parameter. Therefore, our result properly generalizes the role of demand rotation instruments in identifying the conduct parameter, as highlighted by Bresnahan (1982), to more general settings. |
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| spellingShingle | Revisiting the Identification of the Conduct Parameter in Homogeneous Goods Markets Matsumura, Yuri Otani, Suguru Econometrics We revisit the identification of the conduct parameter in homogeneous goods markets. Lau (1982) argues that the conduct parameter is not identified if and only if the inverse demand function is separable, except for a specific separable function. This result has been regarded as an extension of the result in Bresnahan (1982) to more general settings. However, we show that Lau's claim is incorrect and provide a new characterization of the non-identification. Our characterization shows that a demand function with demand rotation instruments is the necessary and sufficient condition for the identification of the conduct parameter. Therefore, our result properly generalizes the role of demand rotation instruments in identifying the conduct parameter, as highlighted by Bresnahan (1982), to more general settings. |
| title | Revisiting the Identification of the Conduct Parameter in Homogeneous Goods Markets |
| topic | Econometrics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16998 |