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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Glaeser and Luttmer 2003<br />

Quantify effi ciency costs of pure command-and-control solutions<br />

instead of price/tradeable permit mechanisms<br />

Study allocation of apartments under rent control<br />

Traditionally assume that with price controls, still have allocative<br />

effi ciency.<br />

But regulation will generally lead to allocative ineffi ciency that<br />

generates first-order welfare losses.<br />

For small price caps, allocation ineffi ciency dwarfs undersupply<br />

ineffi ciency.<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 7: <strong>Public</strong> Goods and Externalities 126 / 138

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