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Discrete Choice Models and Consumer Behavior

2022/2023
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
5
Кредиты
Статус:
Курс по выбору
Когда читается:
4-й курс, 1 модуль

Преподаватели

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline "Discrete Choice Models and Consumer Behavior" is intended to teach specialists in the field of empirical evaluation of systems of demand functions. Correct estimation of demand systems is important for improving decision making both at the level of an individual firm (what prices for goods to set?) and at the level of a market regulator (to allow a merger of firms or not?). In the course, we will consider both the classical approach based on the theory of a representative consumer, and the more modern approach based on discrete choice models that has gained popularity over the past 30 years. In this modern and rather realistic approach, it is assumed that consumers are heterogeneous, the number of consumers is very large, but each individual consumer makes a choice only from a finite number of alternatives (chooses which product to buy). In addition to lectures, seminars and tests, the course includes homework in Python.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • introduce students to modern methodology and tools for estimating demand functions
  • give an introduction to the field of structural econometrics
  • improve the general econometric culture of students
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • obtaining theoretical knowledge in the field of classical and modern approaches to estimating systems of demand functions
  • mastering a modern approach to estimating systems of demand functions in practice
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Part 1. Representative consumer (Approach 1)
  • Part 2. Discrete Choice (Approach 2)
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Test 1
    closed-book
  • non-blocking Test 2
    closed-book
  • non-blocking Homework
    second part of the course
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2022/2023 1st module
    0.4 * Test 2 + 0.2 * Homework + 0.4 * Test 1
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Discrete choice methods with simulation, Train, K.E., 2009
  • Steven T. Berry. (1994). Estimating Discrete-Choice Models of Product Differentiation. RAND Journal of Economics, (2), 242. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.rje.randje.v25y1994isummerp242.262

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Berry, S., Levinsohn, J., & Pakes, A. (1995). Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium. Econometrica, (4), 841. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsrep&AN=edsrep.a.ecm.emetrp.v63y1995i4p841.90

Authors

  • SUZDALTSEV ALEKSEY IGOREVICH
  • TERESCHENKO DMITRIY SERGEEVICH