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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199693
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Second-degree moral hazard in a real-world credence goods market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard - the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010207314
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2013 - This version: 16 October 2013
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard - the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010193289
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980932
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985996
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120255
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Credence goods markets and the informational value of new media : a natural field experiment
Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Neururer, Daniel; Sutter, Matthias - 2019
Credence goods markets are characterized by pronounced informational asymmetries between consumers and expert sellers. As a consequence, consumers are often exploited and market efficiency is threatened. However, in the digital age, it has become easy and cheap for consumers to self-diagnose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988274
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Balafoutas, Loukas; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; Sutter, Matthias - 2021
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315697
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Balafoutas, Loukas - 2014
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in which we consider a phenomenon that we call second-degree moral hazard – the tendency of the supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061956
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What drives taxi drivers? A field experiment on fraud in a market for credence goods
Balafoutas, Loukas; Beck, Adrian; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2011
measure different types of fraud and to examine the influence of passengers’ presumed information and income on the extent of … fraud. Results reveal that taxi drivers cheat passengers in systematic ways: Passengers with inferior information about …. Higher income seems to lead to more fraud. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002199