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Estimating Demand with Recentered Instruments

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arxiv 2504.04056 v1 pith:ZPRX3CG3 submitted 2025-04-05 econ.EM

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keywords approachexogenouscharacteristicsdemandendogenousestimatinginstrumentsproduct
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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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