Asymmetric cost pass-through and consumer search: empirical evidence from online platforms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Heim
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Consumer Search ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Asymmetric Cost ◽  
Pass Through

Empirical Evidence of Asymmetric Interest Rate Pass-Through in Vietnam

2013 ◽  
Vol 218 ◽  
pp. 78-93
Author(s):  
NGUYEN KHAC QUOC BAO ◽  
NGUYEN HUU HUY NHUT
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rate ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Pass Through

scholarly journals Beliefs and Consumer Search in a Vertical Industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2359-2393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten Janssen ◽  
Sandro Shelegia
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Search Costs ◽  
Retail Price ◽  
Consumer Search ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Vertical Relations ◽  
Retail Prices ◽  
The Common ◽  
Search Market ◽  
Pass Through

Abstract This paper studies vertical relations in a search market. As the wholesale arrangement between a manufacturer and its retailers is typically unobserved by consumers, their beliefs about who is to be blamed for a price deviation play a crucial role in determining wholesale and retail prices. The common assumption in the consumer search literature is that consumers exclusively blame an individual retailer for a price deviation. We show that in the vertical relations context, predictions based on this assumption are not robust in the sense that if consumers hold the upstream manufacturer at least partially responsible for the deviation, equilibrium predictions are qualitatively different. For robust beliefs, the vertical model can explain a variety of observations, such as retail price rigidity (or, alternatively, low cost pass-through), nonmonotonicity of retail prices in search costs, and (seemingly) collusive retail behavior. The model can be used to study a monopoly online platform that sells access to final consumers.

scholarly journals Modeling Airline Cost Pass-Through within Regional Aviation Markets

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (23) ◽  
pp. 146-157
Author(s):  
Bojun Wang ◽  
Aidan O’Sullivan ◽  
Lynnette Dray ◽  
Andreas W. Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Environmental Policies ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Fuel Price ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fuel Costs

Studies assessing the impact of market-based environmental policies in aviation rely on various scenarios of airline cost pass-through, because there is little empirical evidence with respect to the impacts of airline costs on airfares. Instead, the costs effect has been indirectly measured by proxy variables such as distance, fuel price, and aircraft sizes. This paper provides empirical evidence of airline cost pass-through by developing an airfare model that explicitly captures airline operating costs. Using a feasible generalized two-stage least squares (FG2SLS) approach, we obtained coefficients of airline fuel costs per passenger, non-fuel costs per passenger, and non-fuel costs per flight modeling for seven world regions (20 region-pair markets). A comparison of the estimated cost pass-through elasticities conducted across regional markets suggests that airlines may respond to the cost increases differently, depending on the cost types and the markets they operate in. Based on the estimated coefficients, we systematically evaluate the potential impacts of introducing a carbon tax policy within two major regional markets with distinct cost pass-through elasticities.

scholarly journals Pass‐Through and Consumer Search: An Empirical Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1049-1069 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Richards ◽  
Miguel I. Gómez ◽  
Jun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Consumer Search ◽  
Pass Through

Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Antidumping Duties and Exchange Rates: Reply

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 1283-1284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A Blonigen ◽  
Stephen E Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Antidumping Duties ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Exchange Rate Pass Through ◽  
The U.S

This reply responds to a comment that correctly identifies an invalid assumption in our original article that antidumping (AD) duties are subtracted from the U.S. price when calculating AD duties in administrative reviews. While this point invalidates our theoretical explanation and empirical evidence on the magnitude of AD duty pass-through, it does not affect our original article's theory or empirical evidence on the magnitude of exchange rate pass-through, or the presence of structural breaks in both the AD duty and exchange-rate pass-through coefficients stemming from AD investigations and orders.

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