selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995)-style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend …

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 …

: whereas some consumers welcome the opportunity to purchase and learn about the new technology, for others the inconvenience …

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 …

This paper argues that firms have an informational advantage over consumers in selecting arbitrators in consumer … selected. Third, more experienced firms and less sophisticated consumers select more industry friendly arbitrators. We develop … and calibrate a model of arbitrator selection with uninformed consumers. We find that competition between arbitrators …

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 …