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Density Of Demand And The Consumer Benefit From Uber, Matthew H. Shapiro
Density Of Demand And The Consumer Benefit From Uber, Matthew H. Shapiro
Research Collection School Of Economics
Uber has attracted the attention of economists and policy makers for its innovations in the taxicab market and its potential for significant consumer welfare gains. The size of this gain depends in part on whether these innovations permit transactions previously costly or infeasible. Using New York City — the largest taxi market in the country — as its context, this paper estimates the level of any technological advantage Uber has over hail taxis in matching to consumers. I combine publicly available transportation data with data scraped from Uber and traffic cameras to estimate a model of the demand for transportation …