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Matthew J. Kotchen

  • Are Elon Musk’s Politics Driving Away Tesla’s Customers?

    Kenneth Gillingham, Matthew J. Kotchen, James A. Levinsohn, Barry Nalebuff
    October 29, 2025

    A new Yale working paper sets out to quantify the effect of the controversies over Musk’s transformation of Twitter and his time leading DOGE, and finds that they may have cost Tesla one million sales.

    A Tesla with a bumper sticker reading “I bought this before we knew that Elon was crazy."
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