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boundedly rational consumers or the reactions of firms to such behavior. Second and more fundamental is the efficiency challenge …, which surfaces where consumer bias weakens the causal link between competition and efficiency. For instance, consumers who … standard economic justification for antitrust law largely weathers the thorny efficiency and welfare challenges alike …
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In an environment that features second-degree price discrimination, this paper fully characterizes the set of surplus divisions that can arise from all possible information consumers have about their valuation. By extending the techniques developed in a companion paper (Yang, 2019a), I show that...
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We provide a formula for the tax rate at the top of the Laffer curve as a function of three elasticities. Our formula applies to static models and to steady states of dynamic models. One of the elasticities that enters our formula has been estimated in the elasticity of taxable income...
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Many government policies affect incentives to acquire human capital. Two workhorse models dominate the literature analyzing these policies: Learning by Doing (LBD) and Ben-Porath (BP). This paper makes two novel findings related to these models. First, LBD and BP generate different predictions...
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