by Jonas Björnerstedt (Swedish competition authority) and Frank Verboven (University of Leuven)
To install the mergersim package, start from the command line in Stata and type the following:
1. net from http://www.bjornerstedt.org/stata/mergersim
2. net install mergersim
Program files will be installed in C:\ado\plus\m and C:\ado\plus\l.
To obtain an example do-file and dataset, type the following (from an empty folder on your PC):
3. net get mergersim
The files example.do and cars1.dta will be installed in your empty folder (you can also download them directly).
To obtain help, type:
4. help mergersim
or read the supporting paper forthcoming in the Stata Journal: Merger Simulation with Nested Logit Demand: Implementation in Stata