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    • Compaction through Buckling in 2D Periodic, Soft and Porous Structures: Effect of Pore Shape 

      Overvelde, Johannes Tesse Bastiaan; Shan, Sicong; Bertoldi, Katia (Wiley Blackwell, 2012)
      Soft cellular structures that comprise a solid matrix with a square array of holes open avenues for the design of novel soft and foldable structures. Our results demonstrate that by simply changing the shape of the holes ...
    • Market Demand Elasticity and Income Inequality 

      Ibragimov, Rustam; Ibragimov, Marat (Springer Verlag, 2007)
      This paper deals with the analysis of the relation between aggregate demand for a consumption good and the distribution of income across consumers. We obtain sufficient conditions under which changes in income inequality ...
    • Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence 

      Chetty, Raj; Looney, Adam; Kroft, Kory (The American Economic Association, 2009)
      Using two strategies, we show that consumers underreact to taxes that are not salient. First, using a field experiment in a grocery store, we find that posting tax-inclusive price tags reduces demand by 8 percent. Second, ...