Measuring product market competition
Project Description
We will use a large dataset on product-level supermarket purchases to construct novel measures of US firms' product market competition. Different from existing measures, our measure will include information on firms' product pricing and geographic presence. Our measure will also include competition by private firms, which has been ignored by previous academic studies. Later in the project, we will use our novel measures to relate product market competition to corporate policies.
Supervisor
BISETTI, Emilio
Quota
10
Course type
UROP1000
UROP1100
UROP2100
UROP3100
UROP4100
Applicant's Roles
The applicant will help organize large datasets and run preliminary statistical analyses on the cleaned-up data. Baseline programming skills (e.g., R or Python) are a plus.
Applicant's Learning Objectives
The applicant will learn how to clean, structure, and run statistical analyses on large unstructured datasets. These skills are transferrable outside the specific context of this project and useful in any work environment involving data analysis.
Complexity of the project
Moderate