Author: Rizwan

Uber Flat Fares

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For over a year, Uber has offered a limited monthly pass program that allows discounted rides to its users in a few large cities around the US. The pass is a great deal if you can get your hands on it.

This is the first part of a series of three posts on the Uber monthly pass looking into how the pass is structured, how it has changed over time and some of the economics behind it, and how a hypothetical graduate student’s demand function for transportation changes in response to changes in the structure of the Uber pass. Continue Reading →

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About the author: I am a curious economist working in Institutional Research, an obscure little field most people stumble upon, like I did. We are the folks who conduct research for a university, about the university. This website is mainly an outlet, an idea that I had started on a few years ago, but got distracted from when life put other things on my plate. The blog will mostly involve posts discussing economics and policy issues and other things from my mundane life. I spend an inordinate amount of time reading and thinking, but don’t often finish my thought or write it down. This should encourage me to bring a little structure and organization to these ruminations. Continue Reading →