aspect of the services of experts (e.g., of doctors, lawyers, and accountants), and the role that voluntary pro bono work … might play. Expert services have un- verifiable quality to non-experts and are subject to moral hazard. Experts who cheat … their customers should crowd out experts who do not, resulting in low trust, prestige, and wages. We ask how pro bono work …

This paper studies the incentives for credence goods experts to invest effort in diagnosis if effort is both costly and … effort and the credence characteristic of the good induces experts to choose incentive compatible tariff structures. This … makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which honestly diagnosing experts …

between experts and consumers. The functioning of the market heavily relies on trust on the side of the consumer as well as … behavior of experts, however, is not significantly influenced by the health care framing, nor by the subject pool. …

Evidence on behavior of experts in credence goods markets raises an important causality issue: Do "fair prices" induce … "good behavior", or do "good experts" post "fair prices"? To answer this question we propose and test a model with three … selection and fixed effects regressions support the model's predictions and show that causality goes from good experts to fair …

Do experts adjust their policy recommendations when the facts change? We conduct a large-scale randomized experiment … among 1,224 economic experts across 109 countries that includes two treatments. The first treatment is the geographic and … randomly assigned information treatment that informs experts about the past macroeconomic performance of their country. We find …

We study how experts influence consumer behavior and welfare by focusing on the Booker Prize. Leveraging the …

We provide evidence for an expectation gap, where risk-averse as well as impatient households and experts provide …

between citizens from borrower and lender countries. We use new international survey data for non-experts and experts in … member countries of the euro area. The results show that non-experts from borrower and lender countries remember aspects of …