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that there is always a strictly positive price-quality relation in equilibrium but the classical adverse selection effects …
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Purpose– This research examines how credence, search, and experience attributes compete with suggestive brand names that are in-congruent with the attributes they cue (e.g., expensive EconoLodge Motel, short-lasting Duracell battery, joint-stiffening JointFlex...
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We designed an experiment that examines how knowledge about the price of a good, and the time at which the information … is received, affects how the good is experienced. The good in question was wine, and the price was either high or low …. Our results suggest that hosts offering wine to guests can safely reveal the price: much is gained if the wine is …
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Our study proposes a novel mechanism to reduce information asymmetry about product quality between buyers and sellers. Product testing organizations like Consumer Reports (US) and Stiftung Warentest (Germany) seek to reduce this asymmetry by providing credible information. However, limited...
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Using quality information for analysis, or staying with just quantity based information is always a good base for debate: Either relying on quantitative measurements and data (which is sad to be more accurate and easier to rely on) or use quantitative measurements (which is sad to be human /...
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We conduct a laboratory experiment that tests two fundamental predictions unique to salience theory. If an agent … purchases one of two vertically differentiated products, salience theory makes the following two distinct predictions. First, it … hypothesizes that a higher expected price level for both products shifts demand toward the more expensive, high-quality product …
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