Presented By: Department of Economics Seminars
Spillovers through Multimarket Firms: The Uniform Product Replacement Channel
Ryan Kim, Johns Hopkins University
We study how regional shocks spill over across US local markets through intrafirm spatial networks created by multimarket firms. We identify spillovers by linking granular data on product-county-level prices and quantities with producer-level information and exploiting variation in firms’ exposure to differential declines in local house prices. A firm’s local sales decrease following a direct negative local demand shock but do so more strongly to indirect negative demand shocks originating in its other markets. Our barcode-level data and multiregion model with endogenous product quality adjustment reveal a novel uniform product replacement mechanism behind the spillover.
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