Demand Estimation with High-Dimensional Product Characteristics
Benjamin J. Gillen,
Matthew Shum () and
Hyungsik Moon ()
A chapter in Bayesian Model Comparison, 2014, vol. 34, pp 301-323 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Abstract:
Structural models of demand founded on the classic work of Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) link variation in aggregate market shares for a product to the influence of product attributes on heterogeneous consumer tastes. We consider implementing these models in settings with complicated products where consumer preferences for product attributes are sparse, that is, where a small proportion of a high-dimensional product characteristics influence consumer tastes. We propose a multistep estimator to efficiently perform uniform inference. Our estimator employs a penalized pre-estimation model specification stage to consistently estimate nonlinear features of the BLP model. We then perform selection via a Triple-LASSO for explanatory controls, treatment selection controls, and instrument selection. After selecting variables, we use an unpenalized GMM estimator for inference. Monte Carlo simulations verify the performance of these estimators.
Keywords: BLP demand model; high-dimensional product characteristics; LASSO; Post-LASSO; shrinkage estimation; L15; C01; C26; C55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)
Downloads: (external link)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... d&utm_campaign=repec (text/html)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... 1-905320140000034020
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... d&utm_campaign=repec (application/pdf)
Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.
Export reference: BibTeX
RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan)
HTML/Text
Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eme:aecozz:s0731-905320140000034020
DOI: 10.1108/S0731-905320140000034020
Access Statistics for this chapter
More chapters in Advances in Econometrics from Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Emerald Support ().