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wild goose chase: a standalone construct

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Transport economics

a failure in ride-hailing markets where scarce idle drivers are sent on long pickups, cutting effective supply, which surge pricing can prevent.

In transport economics, wild goose chase refers to a failure in ride-hailing markets where scarce idle drivers are sent on long pickups, cutting effective supply, which surge pricing can prevent. This meaning comes from Castillo (2017) in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.[1]

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  1. Castillo, J. C., Knoepfle, D., & Weyl, G. (2017). Surge Pricing Solves the Wild Goose Chase. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation. https://doi.org/10.1145/3033274.3085098

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