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curio_Pol_curioyesterday at 2:27 AM1 replyview on HN

PP's point has (mostly?) been addressed in

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20180386

Inputs that can be monopolized are manifestly _not_ the intangibles; price-taking is independent of their effect


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gwerbinyesterday at 6:06 PM

I don't think they implied that those inputs are the intangibles, only that the functional form assumption in the 2018 paper is unrealistic.