Ariel Pakes

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1.

Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market

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Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Nov 2001
Steven Berry, James A. Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Product Differentiation, Autos, Demand Estimation

Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market

NBER Working Paper No. w6481
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2022
Steven Berry, James A. Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market

Posted: 26 Jan 2004
Steven Berry, James A. Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Common Sense and Simplicity in Empirical Industrial Organization

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Common Sense and Simplicity in Empirical Industrial Organization

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Dec 2003
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Common Sense and Simplicity in Empirical Industrial Organization

NBER Working Paper No. w10154
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games (with Entry/Exit Examples)

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Jul 2004
Ariel Pakes, Michael Ostrovsky and Steven Berry
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale University - Department of Economics
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The Dynamics of Productivity in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry

NBER Working Paper No. w3977
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2022
G. Steven Olley and Ariel Pakes
New York University (NYU) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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A Reconsideration of Hedonic Price Indexes with an Application to Pc's

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Jan 2003
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium: Part I and Ii

NBER Working Paper No. w4264
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2022
Steven Berry, James A. Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Value of Patents as Indicators of Inventive Activity

NBER Working Paper No. w2083
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2022
Ariel Pakes, Bronwyn H. Hall and Zvi Griliches
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of California at Berkeley and (Deceased)
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Unobserved Heterogeneity, State Dependence, and Health Plan Choices

HKS Working Paper No. RWP21-020
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Ariel Pakes, Jack R. Porter, Mark Shepard and Sophie Calder-Wang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Wisconsin-Madison - Social Science Computing Cooperative, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Limit Theorems for Estimating the Parameters of Differentiated Product Demand Systems

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 21 May 2002
Steven Berry, Oliver B. Linton and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Cambridge and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Choice Models, Method of Moments, Random Coefficients, Product Differentiation

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Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Computational Framework

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Jul 2004
Chaim Fershtman and Ariel Pakes
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Dynamic Games, Asymmetric Information, Cartel, Numerical Analysis

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How to Count Patents and Value Intellectual Property: Uses of Patent Renewal and Application Data

NBER Working Paper No. w5741
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Nov 1996 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2022
Jean O. Lanjouw, Ariel Pakes and Jonathan Putnam
University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics (Deceased), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Yale University
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A Dynamic Oligopoly with Collusion and Price Wars

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A Dynamic Oligopoly with Collusion and Price Wars

NBER Working Paper No. w6936
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 31 Mar 1999 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2022
Chaim Fershtman and Ariel Pakes
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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A Dynamic Oligopoly with Collusion and Price Wars

NBER Working Paper No. w6936
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2001
Chaim Fershtman and Ariel Pakes
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Rate of Obsolescence of Knowledge, Research Gestation Lags, and the Private Rate of Return to Research Resources

NBER Working Paper No. w0346
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2022
Ariel Pakes and Mark A. Schankerman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and London School of Economics and Political Science
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Looking for the News in the Noise - Additional Stochastic Implications of Optimal Consumption Choice

NBER Working Paper No. w1492
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022
Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Ariel Pakes
Boston University - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Estimates of the Value of Patent Rights in European Countries During Thepost-1950 Period

NBER Working Paper No. w1650
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2022
Mark A. Schankerman and Ariel Pakes
London School of Economics and Political Science and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Patents as Options: Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks

NBER Working Paper No. w1340
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 26 Dec 2001 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Strategic Tradepolicy

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Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Strategic Tradepolicy

NBER Working Paper No. w5235
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Steven Berry, James A. Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Voluntary Export Restraints on Automobiles: Evaluating a Strategic Trade Policy

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Posted: 20 Jan 1998
Steven Berry, James A. Levinsohn and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Patents and R and D at the Firm Level: A First Look

NBER Working Paper No. w0561
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2022
Ariel Pakes and Zvi Griliches
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and (Deceased)
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R&D, Patents, and Market Value Revisited: is There Evidence of a Secondtechnological Opportunity Related Factor?

NBER Working Paper No. w2624
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2022
Zvi Griliches, Bronwyn H. Hall and Ariel Pakes
(Deceased), University of California at Berkeley and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Environmental Change and Hedonic Cost Functions for Automobiles

NBER Working Paper No. w5746
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Oct 1996 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2022
Steven Berry, Samuel S. Kortum and Ariel Pakes
Yale University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Patents, R and D, and the Stock Market Rate of Return

NBER Working Paper No. w0786
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Computing Markov Perfect Nash Equilibria: Numerical Implications of a Dynamic Differentiated Product Model

NBER Working Paper No. t0119
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 24 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 01 May 2022
Ariel Pakes and Paul McGuire
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Yale University
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The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12

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The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Mar 2017
Kate Ho, Kate Ho, Ariel Pakes and Mark Shepard
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Princeton University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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The Evolution of Health Insurer Costs in Massachusetts, 2010-12

NBER Working Paper No. w22835
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 14 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 25 May 2023
Kate Ho, Kate Ho, Ariel Pakes and Mark Shepard
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Princeton University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Empirical Implications of Alternative Models of Firm Dynamics

NBER Working Paper No. w2893
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 12 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2022
Ariel Pakes and Richard E. Ericson
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and East Carolina University - Department of Economics
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Simple Estimators for the Parameters of Discrete Dynamic Games (with Entry/Exit Samples)

NBER Working Paper No. w10506
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 01 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2022
Ariel Pakes, Michael Ostrovsky and Steven Berry
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale University - Department of Economics
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Empirical Tools and Competition Analysis: Past Progress and Current Problems

NBER Working Paper No. w22086
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 08 May 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Limit Theorems for Estimating the Parameters of Differentiated Product Demand Systems

LSE STICERD Research Paper No. EM400
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 21 Jul 2008
Steve Berry, Oliver B. Linton and Ariel Pakes
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Cambridge and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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A Reconsideration of Hedonic Price Indices with an Application to Pc's

NBER Working Paper No. w8715
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 17 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Theory and Empirical Work on Imperfectly Competitive Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w14117
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 22 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Estimating Distributed Lags in Short Panels with an Application to the Specification of Depreciation Patterns and Capital Stock Constructs

NBER Working Paper No. w0933
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2022
Ariel Pakes and Zvi Griliches
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and (Deceased)
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An Experimental Component Index for the CPI: From Annual Computer Data to Monthly Data on Other Goods

NBER Working Paper No. w14368
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 02 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2022
Timothy Erickson and Ariel Pakes
U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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A Framework for Applied Dynamic Analysis in I.O

NBER Working Paper No. w8024
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2022
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Estimation of Distributed Lags in Short Panels

NBER Working Paper No. t0004
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2023
Zvi Griliches and Ariel Pakes
(Deceased) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Optimum Contracts for Research Personnel, Research Employment, and the Establishment of "Rival" Enterprises

NBER Working Paper No. w0871
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2022
Ariel Pakes and Shmuel Nitzan
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
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The Competitive Effects of Information Sharing

NBER Working Paper No. w22836
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 26 May 2023
John Asker, Chaim Fershtman, Jihye Jeon and Ariel Pakes
UCLA, Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Behavioral and Descriptive Forms of Choice Models

NBER Working Paper No. w20022
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2023
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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An Exploration into the Determinants of Research Intensity

NBER Working Paper No. w0438
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 03 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2022
Ariel Pakes and Mark A. Schankerman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and London School of Economics and Political Science
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Aggregation Effects and Panel Data Estimation Problems: An Investigationof the R&D Intensity Decision

NBER Working Paper No. w0344
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2002
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Moment Inequalities for Multinomial Choice with Fixed Effects

NBER Working Paper No. w21893
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2023
Ariel Pakes and Jack R. Porter
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Social Science Computing Cooperative
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Hospital Choices, Hospital Prices and Financial Incentives to Physicians

NBER Working Paper No. w19333
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 17 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2023
Kate Ho, Kate Ho and Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Princeton University - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Just Starting Out: Learning and Equilibrium in a New Market

NBER Working Paper No. w21996
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 15 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2023
Ulrich Doraszelski, Gregory Lewis and Ariel Pakes
Harvard University - Department of Economics, Microsoft Corporation - Microsoft Research New England and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Factor Utilization in Indian Manufacturing: A Look at the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys Data

NBER Working Paper No. w14178
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2022
Ana M. Fernandes and Ariel Pakes
World Bank - International Trade Division and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Measuring the Variance-Age Profile of Lifetime Income

NBER Working Paper No. w0350
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022
Benjamin Eden and Ariel Pakes
University of Haifa - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Methodological Issues in Analyzing Market Dynamics

NBER Working Paper No. w21999
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2023
Ariel Pakes
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work

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Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5024
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Jul 2005
Chaim Fershtman and Ariel Pakes
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Dynamic games, numerical analysis, collusive behavior, cartels

Finite State Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Applied Work

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7323
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Jul 2009
Chaim Fershtman and Ariel Pakes
Tel Aviv University - Eitan Berglas School of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Applied Markov Equilibrium, Dynamic Games, Dynamic Oligopoly