Nostalgic Demand Daniel Björkegren Abstract This paper attempts to understand demand for local and other nostalgic production in food. In U.S. household scanner data, nostalgically produced foods sell for a large premium. Controlling for income and demographics, experts who work in food production and health are no less likely to purchase nostalgic milk and eggs, […]
BREAD Working Paper No. 566, December 2020
Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from the Rwandan Mobile Phone Network Daniel Björkegren Abstract This paper analyzes the potential for competition policy to affect welfare and in- vestment in a network industry. When a network is split between competitors, each internalizes less network effects, but may still invest to steal customers. I structurally estimate the […]