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Strategic delegation to an independent regulator with a pure consumer standard improves dynamic regulation by …
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, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product … relative desirability of strict liability vis-à-vis minimum quality standard regulation from a social welfare standpoint. We … also clarify when and why joint use of strict liability and minimum quality standard regulation welfare dominates the …
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) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference differs across countries. Unilateral data regulation by each country addresses the …
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We model firms' quality disclosure and pricing in the presence of cursed consumers, who fail to be sufficiently skeptical about undisclosed quality. We show that neither competition nor the presence of sophisticated consumers necessarily protect cursed consumers from being exploited....
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We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior … levels before the introduction of the regulation. This rich data set allows us to apply a difference-in-difference estimator …
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We quantify the prevalence of undisclosed influencer posts on Twitter across a large set of brands based on a unique data set of over 100 million posts. We develop a novel method to detect undisclosed influencer posts and find that 96% of influencer posts are not disclosed as such. Despite...
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The recent expansion of digital financial products leads to severe consumer protection issues such as fraud and scams. As these potentially decrease trust in digital services, especially in developing countries, avoiding victimization has become an important policy objective. In an online...
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To help German households and firms with exploding energy costs, the German government is about to implement a new transfer scheme called "gas price brake." A unique feature of this energy price relief measure is that both households and the industry receive a transfer that increases in one's...
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A large literature has analyzed pricing inefficiencies in health insurance markets due to adverse selection, typically assuming informed, active consumers on the demand side of the market. However, recent evidence suggests that many consumers have information frictions that lead to suboptimal...
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This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
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