The corrected data in this note measure the price elasticity of supply for lodging services to be about 0.11 based on time-series data. This level compared with the elasticity of demand was calculated at the time by the same authors at -0.44. The two elasticities taken together indicate that the incidence of room taxes falls most heavily on the lodging industry, which reverses the conclusion from the original article.
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