2021
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.09910
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Obstacles to Redistribution Through Markets and One Solution

Abstract: Dworczak et al. (2021) study when certain market structures are optimal in the presence of heterogeneous preferences. A key assumption is that the social planner knows the joint distribution of the value of the good and marginal value of money. This paper studies whether relevant features of this distribution are identified from choice data. We show that the features of the distribution needed to characterize optimal market structure cannot be identified when demand is known for all prices. While this is a neg… Show more

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