Deterministic Choice Set Variation in Demand Estimation - with an Application to Consumption Rivalry in the EV Public Charging Market

Consumption rivalry generates variation in the choice sets individual decision-makers face. When such variation is not taken into account, biased estimates of demand result. Researchers however often lack exact information on temporal variation in product availability and necessarily limit themselves to imposing probabilistic consideration constraints. This paper instead uses deterministic constraints to incorporate information on the exact set of available alternatives at the time of choosing.In an application to the market for public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles I show how this improves predictions of individual choice and the aggregate demand estimates for local charging facilities