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zwapstoday at 1:10 PM0 repliesview on HN

Somewhat that is it.

The issue if, of course, that marginal revolution overstates the contribution of a single empirical study here.

Of course everyone is aware that the original model doesn't hold in reality. The contribution of showing this in the ebook market is... not zero, but certainly not the implied "We killed the theory!!!!"

Instead, there are decades of papers poking holes in the Coase model and producing ideas as to why the conjecture doesn't hold. In my mind, these are the more interesting contributions. The authors mention two, but I think far more tangible are time preferences, time horizon limits, pertubations, non-uniform prior assumptions and bounded rationality.