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In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...
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equipment was distributed via warehouse sellers while today it is quite common to see high quality equipment at discounters. …
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In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397153
This article studies second-degree price-discrimination in markets for credence goods. Such markets are affected by asymmetric informationbecause expert sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. We show that discrimination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019115
In markets for credence goods sellers are better informed than their customers about the quality that yields the highest surplus from trade. This paper studies second-degree price-discrimination in such markets. It shows that discrimination regards the amount of advice offered to customers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839576
equipment was distributed via warehouse sellers while today it is quite common to see high quality equipment at discounters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273087
makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which honestly diagnosing experts … survive competition by discounters; we identify situations in which experts misdiagnose consumers in order to prevent them …This paper studies the incentives for credence goods experts to invest effort in diagnosis if effort is both costly and …
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This paper studies price competition between experts and discounters in a market for credence goods. While experts can … makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which experts survive competition by … leads to a switch from an experts only to a discounters only market. We also discuss whether vertical restraints can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294501
This paper studies price competition between experts and discounters in a market for credence goods. While experts can … makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which experts survive competition by … leads to a switch from an experts only to a discounters only market. We also discuss whether vertical restraints can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800603
makes them vulnerable to competition by discounters. We explore the conditions under which honestly diagnosing experts … survive competition by discounters; we identify situations in which experts misdiagnose consumers in order to prevent them …This paper studies the incentives for credence goods experts to invest effort in diagnosis if effort is both costly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005581170