outcome variable defined as log(share) - log(outshr)
trend
time trend
Details
Data set was analysed in Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes (1995). The data stem from annual issues of the Automotive News Market Data Book.
The data set inlcudes information on all models marketed during the the period beginning 1971 and ending in 1990 cotaining 2217 model/years from 997 distinct models.
A detailed description is given in BLP (1995, 868--871). The internal function constructIV constructs instrumental variables along the lines described and used in BLP (1995).
References
S. Berry, J. Levinsohn, A. Pakes (1995). Automobile Prices in Market EquilibriumD. Econometrica, 63(4), 841--890.