A Cohen… - The American economic review, 2007 - JSTOR
We develop a structural econometric model to estimate risk preferences from data on
deductible choices in auto insurance contracts. We account for adverse selection by
modeling unobserved heterogeneity in both risk (claim rate) and risk aversion. We find ...
L Einav - The Rand journal of economics, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The observed seasonality of box-office revenues reflects both seasonality in underlying
demand for movies and seasonality in the number and quality of available movies. I
separately identify these aspects by estimating weekly demand for movies, using movie ...
A Cohen… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003 - MIT Press
This paper investigates the effects of mandatory seat belt laws on driver behavior and traffic
fatalities. Using a unique panel data set on seat belt usage in all US jurisdictions, we
analyze how such laws, by influencing seat belt use, affect the incidence of traffic fatalities. ...
Y Eilat… - Applied Economics, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
International tourism is a fast growing industry generating half a trillion dollars in annual
revenues and accounting for almost 10% of total international trade, and almost half of total
trade in services. Yet, it has so far failed to receive the attention it deserves from ...
W Adams, L Einav… - 2007 - nber.org
We present new evidence on consumer liquidity constraints and the credit market conditions
that might give rise to them. Our analysis is based on unique data from a large auto sales
company that serves the subprime market. We first document the role of short-term ...
BY Orbach… - International Review of Law and Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Since the early 1970s, movie theaters in the United States have employed a pricing model of
uniform prices for differentiated goods. At any given theater, one price is charged for all
movies, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This pricing model is puzzling in light of the ...
L Einav - manuscript, Stanford University, 2003 - 193.146.129.230
Abstract Strong seasonality in demand, a short product life cycle, and the absence of any
price competition make the release date of first-run movies one of the main strategic
decisions taken by movies' distributors. Movies are typically released on a Friday within a ...
A Cohen… - 2005 - nber.org
We use a large data set of deductible choices in auto insurance contracts to estimate the
distribution of risk preferences in our sample. To do so, we develop a structural econometric
model, which accounts for adverse selection by allowing for unobserved heterogeneity in ...
L Einav - Unpublished Paper, Stanford University. Retrieved …, 2002 - stanford.edu
Abstract Strong seasonality in demand, a short product life cycle, and the absence of any
price competition make the release date of first-run movies one of the main strategic
decisions taken by movies' distributors. These endogenous timing decisions, in turn, ...
[CITATION] Gross seasonality and underlying seasonality: Evidence from the US motion picture industry
L Einav - RAND Journal of Economics, 2003
L Einav… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: In this paper, we focus on the effects of surname initials on professional outcomes
in the academic labor market for economists. We begin our analysis with data on faculty in
all top 35 US economics departments. Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly ...
L Einav, A Finkelstein… - 2008 - nber.org
We show how standard consumer and producer theory can be used to estimate welfare in
insurance markets with selection. The key observation is that the same price variation
needed to identify the demand curve also identifies how costs vary as market participants ...
G Caruana… - Review of Economic Studies, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Commitment is typically modelled by assigning to one of the players the ability to take an
initial binding action. The weakness of this approach is that the fundamental question of who
has the opportunity to commit cannot be addressed, as it is assumed. This paper presents ...
RM Feinberg, Z Griliches… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1998 - JSTOR
As explored by Richard Dusansky and Clayton Vernon in" Rankings of US Economics
Departments"(Winter 1998, pp. 157-70), such rankings are dependent either on subjective
reputation surveys, as in the recent National Research Council (NRC) study, or on ...
L Einav, A Finkelstein… - 2009 - nber.org
We describe recent advances in the empirical analysis of insurance markets. This new
research proposes ways to estimate individual demand for insurance and the relationship
between prices and insurer costs in the presence of adverse and advantageous selection. ...
L Einav, A Finkelstein… - 2007 - nber.org
Much of the extensive empirical literature on insurance markets has focused on whether
adverse selection can be detected. Once detected, however, there has been little attempt to
quantify its importance. We start by showing theoretically that the efficiency cost of adverse ...
L Einav, E Leibtag, A Nevo - Economic research report, 2008 - ers.usda.gov
Abstract Researchers use Nielsen Homescan data, which provide detailed food-purchase
information from a panel of US households, to address a variety of important research topics.
However, some question the credibility of the data since the data are self-recorded and ...
L Einav, M Jenkins… - Work. Pap., Stanford Univ, 2008 - olin.wustl.edu
Abstract. We study pricing and contract design in the subprime auto sales market. We
develop a model of the demand for financed purchases that incorporates both adverse
selection and moral hazard effects, and estimate the model using detailed transactionlevel ...
L Einav, A Finkelstein… - Econometrica, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Much of the extensive empirical literature on insurance markets has focused on whether
adverse selection can be detected. Once detected, however, there has been little attempt to
quantify its welfare cost or to assess whether and what potential government interventions ...
L Einav… - 2010 - nber.org
The field of Industrial Organization has made dramatic advances over the last few decades
in developing empirical methods for analyzing imperfect competition and the organization of
markets. We describe the motivation for these developments and some of the successes. ...
L Einav - Economic Inquiry, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
I develop a new empirical model for discrete games and apply it to study the release date
timing game played by distributors of movies. The results suggest that release dates of
movies are too clustered around big holiday weekends and that box office revenues ...
L Einav - Econometric Society 2004 North American Winter …, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
Strong seasonality in demand, a short product life cycle, and the absence of any price
competition make the release date of first-run movies one of the main strategic decisions
taken by movies' distributors. Movies are typically released on a Friday within a short ...
O Coibion, L Einav… - International Journal of Industrial …, 2007 - Elsevier
Empirical studies find substantial differences in demand elasticities and associated markups
among products of different quality. This paper analyzes the theoretical determinants of such
variation. We present a simple model that allows for horizontal and vertical differentiation ...
L Einav… - 2011 - nber.org
We present a graphical framework for analyzing both theoretical and empirical work on
selection in insurance markets. We begin by using this framework to review the “textbook”
adverse selection environment and its implications for insurance allocation, social welfare, ...
L Einav - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2005 - Springer
As economics modeling moves from super rational decision makers to considering
boundedly rational agents, some economic problems deserve a second look. This paper
studies the effects of learning on the efficiency of search. Once learning is taken into ...
L Einav, E Leibtag… - Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 2010 - Springer
Abstract We report results from a validation study of the Nielsen Homescan consumer panel
data. We use data from a large grocery retailer to match transactions that were recorded by
the retailer (at the store) and by the Homescan panelist (at home). The matched data allow ...
L Einav, A Finkelstein, I Pascu… - 2010 - nber.org
We examine the extent to which an individual's actual insurance and investment choices
display a stable ranking in willingness to bear risk, relative to his peers, across different
contexts. We do so by examining the same individuals' decisions regarding their 401 (k) ...
D Quint… - Economics Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
We present a dynamic entry game, in which entry costs become sunk gradually. In
equilibrium the most profitable firms enter, as they commit faster not to exit. This rationalizes
an equilibrium selection assumption often employed in the empirical entry literature.
L Einav, A Finkelstein,
SP Ryan, P Schrimpf… - 2011 - nber.org
In this paper we explore the possibility that individuals may select insurance coverage in
part based on their anticipated behavioral response to the insurance contract. Such"
selection on moral hazard" can have important implications for attempts to combat either ...
L Einav, M Jenkins… - 2008 - stanford.edu
Abstract We study the adoption of automated credit scoring at a large auto finance com $
pany and the changes it enabled in lending practices. Credit scoring appears to have
increased profits by roughly a thousand dollars per loan. We identify two distinct ben $ ...
Abstract This paper outlines the methods and applications related to the nascent area of
empirical discrete games in marketing. Many key strategic decisions firms make involve
discrete choices such as deciding the location of a new store, determining where in ...
G Caruana, L Einav… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new non-cooperative approach to multilateral bargaining. We
consider a demand game with the following additional ingredients:(i) there is an exogenous
deadline, by which bargaining has to end;(ii) prior to the deadline, players may ...
L Einav, T Kuchler,
JD Levin… - 2011 - nber.org
The internet has dramatically reduced the cost of varying prices, displays and information
provided to consumers, facilitating both active and passive experimentation. We document
the prevalence of targeted pricing and auction design variation on eBay, and identify ...
L Einav - 2004 - stanford.edu
Abstract Under standard equilibrium assumptions, a bidder in an independent private value
auction chooses her bid by trading off between markup and probability of winning. Under
similar assumptions, a producer in a differentiated product market chooses its price by ...
[CITATION] Essays in Industrial Organization
L Einav - 2002 - Harvard University
[CITATION] forthcoming, Liquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending
W Adams, L Einav… - American Economic Review
L Einav… - NYU Stern and Stanford, 2008 - stanford.edu
Abstract. We use highway procurement data from Michigan to study the effect of
firmsmdistances to the auction site on participation and bidding decisions. Motivated by
nreduced formo evidence, we account for endogenous participation and allow the ...
[CITATION] Gross Seasonality and Underlying Seasonality: Evidence from the US
L Einav - 2003
[CITATION] rThe Effects of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Driving Behavior and Traffi c Fatalities. rReview of Economics and Statistics
A Cohen… - Vol, 2003
G Caruana… - The RAND Journal of Economics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze a dynamic model of quantity competition, where firms continuously adjust their
quantity targets, but incur convex adjustment costs when they do so. Quantity targets serve
as a partial commitment device and, in equilibrium, follow a hump-shaped pattern. The ...
L Einav… - Journal of Cultural Economics, 2009 - Springer
Abstract How does the market react to news regarding large uncertain projects? We analyze
stock market reactions to information about changes in opening dates of movies, and
present two main findings. First, we find systematic negative stock price responses to the ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Recording Discrepancies in Nielsen Homescan Data: Are They Present and Do They Matter?”
L Einav, E Leibtag… - Quantitative Marketing and Economics
L Einav… - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2009 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract. The field of Industrial Organization has made dramatic advances over the last few
decades in developing empirical methods for analyzing imperfect competition and the
organization of markets. We describe the motivation for these developments and some of ...
L Einav… - ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY MONOGRAPHS, 2006 - books.google.com
The fieldofIndustrialOrganization (IO) studiesthebehavioroffirmsandtheinteraction... them.
Inthe last25 years, IO studies have increasinglyfocused on single industries, using a
combination of economic theory and statistics to analyze strategic interaction between ...
[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Estimating Welfare in Insurance Markets Using Variation in Prices.”
L Einav, A Finkelstein… - Quarterly Journal of Economics
[CITATION] iEstimating Risk Aversion from Deductible Choice, jAmerican Economic Review, 97 (3)
A Cohen… - June, 2007
[CITATION] Forthcoming. Is Hanukkah Responsive to Christmas
R Abramitzky, L Einav… - Economic Journal
BY Orbach… - American Law & Economics Association …, 2005 - law.bepress.com
Abstract Since the early 1970s, each moviegoer pays at any given theater one price for all
movies, seven days a week, throughout the year. This pricing model is puzzling in light of the
potential profitability of variable pricing that corresponds to demand characteristics. ...
[CITATION] eLiquidity Constraints and Imperfect Information in Subprime Lending, fAmerican Economic Review, 99 (1)
W Adams, L Einav… - March, 2009
[CITATION] oLiquidity Constraints and Their Causes: Evidence from Subprime Lending
W Adams, L Einav… - pNovember 2006. Working Paper
[CITATION] The impact of information technology on consumer credit markets
L Einav, M Jenkins… - 2009 - Stanford University, mimeo
[CITATION] Ranking Economics Departments
G Zvi… - Journal of Economics Perspectives, 1998
G Caruana… - 2004 - groups.haas.berkeley.edu
Abstract Economists frequently use simultaneous one-shot games to model strategic
interactions. Quite often, however, the actions taken in such games require some
preparation. If such preparations are costly to alter, strategic incentives may be an ...
R Abramitzky, L Einav… - The Economic Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We use individual-level survey and county-level expenditure data to examine the extent to
which Hanukkah celebrations among US Jews are driven by the presence of Christmas. We
document that Jews with young children are more likely to celebrate Hanukkah, that this ...
L Einav, E Leibtag… - 2008 - 134.245.92.14
Abstract We report results from a validation study of Nielsen Homescan data. We use data
from a large grocery chain to match thousands of individual transactions that were recorded
by both the retailer (at the store) and the Nielsen Homescan panelist (at home). First, we ...
WT Harbaugh, K Krause,
L Vesterlund… - The Economic …, 2009 - res.org.uk
We examine the robustness of the fourfold pattern of risk attitudes under two elicitation
procedures. We find that individuals are, on average, risk-seeking over low-probability gains
and high-probability losses and risk-averse over high-probability gains and low- ...
[CITATION] Report of the Editor American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
M Cullen, L Einav, A Finkelstein… - Discussion Papers, 2010 - ideas.repec.org
We examine the extent to which an individual's actual insurance and investment choices
display a stable ranking in willingness to bear risk, relative to his peers, across different
contexts. We do so by examining the same individuals' decisions regarding their 401 (k) ...
A Finkelstein, L Einav, MR Cullen - 2010 - dspace.mit.edu
We provide a graphical illustration of how standard consumer and producer theory can be
used to quantify the welfare loss associated with inefficient pricing in insurance markets with
selection. We then show how this welfare loss can be estimated empirically using ...
A Aron-Dine, L Einav, A Finkelstein… - 2012 - nber.org
We investigate whether individuals exhibit forward looking behavior in their response to the
non-linear pricing common in health insurance contracts. Our empirical strategy exploits the
fact that employees who join an employer-provided health insurance plan later in the ...
P Bishop, J Canals-Cerda, CP Chen, CGQ Chi… - J Cult Econ, 2009 - Springer
The Editors would like to thank the following individuals who kindly agreed to serve as referees
for the Journal. ... Balestrino, Alessandro Belleflamme, Paul Bishop, Paul Canals-Cerda, Jose
Chen, Chien-Ping Chi, Christina Geng-Qing Collins, Alan Cox, Joe Dass, Mayukh Davis, ...
R Abramitzky, L Einav… - The Economic Journal, 2009 - res.org.uk
We use individual-level survey and county-level expenditure data to examine the extent to
which Hanukkah celebrations among US Jews are driven by the presence of Christmas. We
document that Jews with young children are more likely to celebrate Hanukkah, that this ...
VV Acharya, SN Ali, J Apesteguia, P Arcidiacono… - 209.197.108.139
The American Economic Association would like to congratulate its 2010 American Economic
Review Excellence in Refereeing Award recipients. The award recognizes the outstanding
work of those referees whose service and dedication have contributed to the high quality ...
L Einav, D Knoepfle,
J Levin… - 2012 - stanford.edu
Abstract. We estimate the sensitivity of Internet retail purchasing to sales taxes using data
from the eBay marketplace. Our first approach exploits the fact that seller locations are
revealed only after buyers have expressed interest in an item by clicking on its listing. We ...
M Cullen, L Einav… - Discussion Papers, 2009 - ideas.repec.org
We provide an illustration of how standard consumer and producer theory can be used to
quantify the welfare loss associated with inefficient pricing in insurance markets with
selection. We then show how this welfare loss can be estimated empirically using ...
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