Advertising can rotate the demand curve if it changes the dispersion of consumers' valuations. We provide an elasticity form measure of the advertising-induced demand curve rotation in five demand models and test for its presence in the US non-alcoholic beverage market. The Almost Ideal Demand...

This paper analyzes the critique of ACA that it unjustifiably interferes with state efforts at health reform. We address several aspects of this critique: the argument by states that ACA prematurely cuts off vibrant health reform at the state level by looking at a number of areas in which health...