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Robust Market Interventions

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  • Galeotti, Andrea
  • Golub, Benjamin
  • Goyal, Sanjeev
  • Talamas, Eduard
  • Tamuz, Omer

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A large differentiated oligopoly yields inefficient market equilibria. An authority with imprecise information about the primitives of the market aims to design tax/subsidy interventions that increase efficiency robustly---i.e., with high probability. We identify a condition on demand that guarantees the existence of such interventions, and we show how to construct them using noisy estimates of demand complementarities and substitutabilities across products. The analysis works by deriving a novel description of the incidence of market interventions in terms of spectral statistics of a Slutsky matrix. Our notion of recoverable structure ensures that parts of the spectrum that are useful for the design of interventions are statistically recoverable from noisy demand estimates.

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  • Galeotti, Andrea & Golub, Benjamin & Goyal, Sanjeev & Talamas, Eduard & Tamuz, Omer, 2024. "Robust Market Interventions," CEPR Discussion Papers 19574, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:19574
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