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Estimating Demand with Recentered Instruments

Kirill Borusyak, Mauricio Caceres Bravo, Peter Hull

arXiv 5 Apr 2025 · Econometrics

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Abstract

We develop a new approach to estimating flexible demand models with exogenous supply-side shocks. Our approach avoids conventional assumptions of exogenous product characteristics, putting no restrictions on product entry, despite using instrumental variables that incorporate characteristic variation. The proposed instruments are model-predicted responses of endogenous variables to the exogenous shocks, recentered to avoid bias from endogenous characteristics. We illustrate the approach in a series of Monte Carlo simulations.

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