Yes, I agree that there will be pressure on managers from investors, and they will try to recover their margins in several ways, but if they try to recover it from price increases beyond what the tax incidence suggests,…
> The company needs a profit margin of x. If you place a tax of y on the company, that margin, simplistically, is now x+y. Not really, this only happens for perfectly inelastic goods. We can use the price elasticity of…
Yes, I agree that there will be pressure on managers from investors, and they will try to recover their margins in several ways, but if they try to recover it from price increases beyond what the tax incidence suggests,…
> The company needs a profit margin of x. If you place a tax of y on the company, that margin, simplistically, is now x+y. Not really, this only happens for perfectly inelastic goods. We can use the price elasticity of…