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In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...
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We develop a dynamic game to explore the interaction between regulation and private policies, such as self-regulation by firms and activism. Without a public regulator, the possibility of self-regulation is bad for the firm, but good for activists who are willing to maintain a costly boycott to...
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In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for a war to depose Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein. In response, calls in the United States for a boycott of French products, wine in particular, rebounded through all forms of media....
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measure the magnitude of consumers%u2019 participation in the boycott, and look at basic evidence of who participates …
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This paper explores whether private markets can incentivize environmental stewardship. We examine the consumer response to the 2010 BP oil spill and test how BP's investment in the 2000-2008 “Beyond Petroleum” green advertising campaign affected this response. We find evidence consistent...
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threat to site revenue and, if revenue losses undermine investment, a possible threat to consumers' access to appealing …
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years, questions have arisen about whether its services help or harm consumers. In response, states have increasingly … consumers. On balance, our results also seem to support the relevance of theories of occupational licensing that stress the …
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informational advantage over consumers in selecting arbitrators, resulting in industry-friendly arbitration outcomes. We then … arbitrators without the input of firms and consumers would increase consumer awards by $40,000 on average, relative to the current … mechanism for the benefit of consumers hinges on whether consumers are informed. Policies such as increasing arbitrator …
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-functioning marketplace, suggest that prospect theory adequately organizes behavior among inexperienced consumers, whereas consumers with …
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In this paper, we exploit new sources of cross-sectional data to estimate a detailed product-level demand system for new passenger vehicles. We use four data sources: on the characteristics of products, on the attributes of the U.S. population of households, on the match between the first and...
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