Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "elasticity"
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Compaction through Buckling in 2D Periodic, Soft and Porous Structures: Effect of Pore Shape
(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
(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
(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, ...