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Vertical Relationships and Competition in Retail Gasoline Markets: Empirical Evidence from Contract Changes in Southern California: Comment

By Christopher T. Taylor, Nicholas M. Kreisle, and Paul R. Zimmerman

òòò½Íø Review, June 2010

In a paper in the March 2004 AER, Justine Hastings concludes that the acquisition of an independent gasoline retailer, Thrifty, by a vertically integrated firm, ARCO, is associated with sizable price increases at competing stations. To better understand t...

The Bootstrap and Multiple Imputations: Harnessing Increased Computing Power for Improved Statistical Tests

[Symposium: Econometric Tools]

By David Brownstone and Robert Valletta

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2001

The bootstrap and multiple imputations are two techniques that can enhance the accuracy of estimated confidence bands and critical values. Although they are computationally intensive, relying on repeated sampling from empirical data sets and associated es...

Who Gets on the òòò½Íø Program?

By C. Elton Hinshaw and John J. Siegfried

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1995

The dominance of the òòò½Íø program by leading research universities declined substantially over the past four decades, but they have maintained their share of papers published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the Americn Economic Review. Their share o...

The Subjectivist Response

By Dale J. Poirier

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 1988

[This paper responds to comments on "Frequentist and Subjectivist Perspectives on the Problems of Model Building in Economics," by Dale J. Poirier.] It is a rare opportunity to have one's research discussed in print by as eminent and contemplative a group...

The Impact of Market Size and Composition on Health Insurance Premiums: Evidence from the First Year of the Affordable Care Act

By Michael J. Dickstein, Mark Duggan, Joe Orsini, and Pietro Tebaldi

òòò½Íø Review, May 2015

Under the Affordable Care Act, individual states have discretion in how they define coverage regions, within which insurers must charge the same premium to buyers of the same age, family structure, and smoking status. We exploit variation in these definit...