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Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Inertia in the Residential Electricity Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-06-01)
Many jurisdictions around the world have deregulated utilities and opened retail markets to competition. However, inertial decisionmaking can diminish consumer benefits of retail competition. Using household-level data ...
Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-04-01)
The 2009 Cash for Clunkers program aimed to stimulate consumer spending in the new automobile industry, which was experiencing disproportionate reductions in demand and employment during the Great Recession. Exploiting ...