Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Ruochen

Titel

Consumer stockpiling and demand elasticity biases: A theoretical note with applications

Ist Teil von

• The Manchester school, 2021-12, Vol.89 (6), p.610-618

Ort / Verlag

Manchester: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Consumer stockpiling can result in biased empirical estimates of own‐ and cross‐price elasticities of demand with significant implications for a range of policy issues. To further the theoretical understanding of such biases, I develop a simple, yet general theoretical framework. For any given demand and prices, I show both the own‐ and cross‐price elasticities biases can be over‐ or underestimated depending upon a single intuitive condition. I then illustrate the importance of these insights by applying them to some example applications, including the measurement of market power and the estimated effects of tax increases on consumption.