Identification and Estimation of Online Price Competition With an Unknown Number of Firms
竞争企业数量未知时在线价格竞争模型的识别与估计
Summary This paper considers identification and estimation of a general model for online price competition. We show that when the number of competing firms is unknown the underlying parameters of the model can still be identified and estimated employing recently developed results on measurement errors. We illustrate our methodology using UK data for personal digital assistants and employ the estimates to simulate competitive effects. Our results reveal that heightened…