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selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend …
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where …, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely-available information. We find consumers … mistakes: a conventional subsidy for energy-efficient products and a non-traditional subsidy paying consumers to view …
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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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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' participation in the boycott, and look at basic evidence of who participates. Conservative …
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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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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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We argue that recoveries from demand-driven recessions with expenditure cuts concentrated in services or non-durables will tend to be weaker than recoveries from recessions more biased towards durables. Intuitively, the smaller the bias towards more durable goods, the less the recovery is...
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: whereas some consumers welcome the opportunity to purchase and learn about the new technology, for others the inconvenience …
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respect the privacy of consumers. But nonrivalry leads to other consequences that are less obvious. Because of nonrivalry …. Instead, giving the data property rights to consumers can generate allocations that are close to optimal. Consumers balance …
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