Alex Tabarrok
Professor of economics at George Mason University and Bartley J. Madden Chair at the Mercatus Center. Co-writes the blog Marginal Revolution and co-authors the textbook Modern Principles of Economics with Tyler Cowen.
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Their wordsThese corner allocations create a distinct source of cross-market misallocation, separate from the aggregate quantity loss (the Harberger triangle) and from within-market misallocation emphasized in prior work.
↗Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors)arxiv.org 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsThis paper shows that feast or famine, not modest belt-tightening, is the generic outcome of price controls.
↗Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors)arxiv.org 2nd of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsWe show that equilibrium generically occurs at neither the Harberger nor Glaeser-Luttmer benchmark. Cost-minimizing suppliers drive allocations to vertices, not interiors. Corners are not an assumption but an outcome about what cost-minimizing suppliers choose. The correct benchmark is corners, not random, and corners generate qualitatively different welfare properties: losses far larger than either efficient or random distributions, and discontinuous jumps from small parameter perturbations.
↗Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors)arxiv.org 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Our reading
Misallocation, not the aggregate quantity reduction, is the main welfare cost of price controls.
Their wordsThe quantity reduction is not the main cost of price controls. The misallocation is.
↗Chaos and Misallocation under Price Controls (with 2 co-authors)arxiv.org 4th of 4 in this piece