Estimating Network Economies in Retail Chains: A Revealed Preference Approach

Paul B. Ellickson, Stephanie Houghton, Christopher Timmins

NBER Working Paper No. 15832
Issued in March 2010

---- Acknowledgements -----

The authors would like to thank Arie Beresteanu, Tim Bresnahan, Jeremy Fox, Tom Holmes, Shakeeb Khan, and Andrew Sweeting for their helpful comments. We have also greatly benefited from the thoughtful suggestions of participants in the NBER Winter IO Meetings, Duke University Applied Microeconometrics Lunch, the Minnesota Applied Micro Workshop, the Triangle Econometrics Conference, and seminar participants at Rochester, Texas A&M, Texas-Austin, Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, and the Yale SOM. Any remaining errors and omissions are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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