We developed a theoretical framework that allows examination of the effect of a change in sales or excise tax on food and beverage demand after taking into consideration that consumers may have imperfect tax knowledge, are sometimes inattentive to sales tax, may not be informed of a sales tax...

We examine what factors affect the degree of price discrimination for an academic journal by analyzing data on 190 of the 208 economics journals indexed in the 2008 edition of Journal Citation Reports. We find that (1) the library-to-individual price ratio of a for-profit journal is 37% higher...

We develop a two-sided model for a farmers' market where farmers value the number of consumers, and consumers value the number of farmers and the average product quality in the market. Consumer preference over product quality provides an incentive for the farmers' market to exclude farmers of...