Rational habits and uncertain prices: simulating gasoline consumption behavior
When consumers are forward-looking with respect to their demand for a habit-forming good, traditional measures of price elasticity are misleading. In particular, such measures will underestimate sensitivity to long-run shifts - and therefore underestimate the potential effect of policy instruments...
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University of Oxford
2012
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