Many industry wide studies of the elasticity of demand for cigarettes (an industry dominated by a few

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Many industry wide studies of the elasticity of demand for cigarettes (an industry dominated by a few firms with tremendous market power) indicate a price elasticity near - 0.5. Yet, our study of market power tells us that a firm with any market power at all should never operate at a point on its demand curve where demand is inelastic. How can you reconcile these apparently contradictory statements?
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Microeconomics

ISBN: 9781464146978

1st Edition

Authors: Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, Chad Syverson

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