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Are Consumers Attentive To Local Energy Costs? Evidence From The Appliance Market by Cato Institute is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Policymakers are increasingly relying on behavioral insights to design programs to alter consumer choices in ways that could improve market efficiency. Consumers make systematic mistakes in their choices for a wide range of products, such as healthcare plans, mutual funds, schools, and what foods to consume, among many others. Whether and how we should regulate markets when consumers are prone to mistakes has become an important and sometimes controversial topic.

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