Regulated Prices, Rent-Seeking, and Consumer Surplus.
Price controls lead to misallocation of goods and encourage rent-seeking. The misallocation effect alone ensures that a price control always reduces consumer surplus in an otherwise-competitive market with convex demand if supply is more elastic than demand; or with log-convex demand (e.g., constant...
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| বিন্যাস: | Working paper |
| ভাষা: | English |
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Nuffield College (University of Oxford)
2012
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