Effects of Competition over Quality-Adjusted Price Indexes: An Application to the Spanish Automobile Market

Ana Isabel Guerra Hernández ()
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Ana Isabel Guerra Hernández: Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autonoma de

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Abstract: Using a newly constructed data set, we calculate quality-adjusted price indexes after estimating hedonic price regressions from 1988 to 2004 in the Spanish automobile market. The increasing competition was favoured by the removal of trade restrictions and the special plans for the renewal of the Spanish automobile fleet. We find that the increasing degree of competition during those years led to an overall drop in automobile prices by 20 percent which implied considerable consumer gains thanks to higher market efficiency. Additionally, our results indicate that loyalty relevance and discrepancies in automobile reliability declined during those years. This is captured

Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2007-10
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