Given that consumers value quality, and such advertising content informs consumers' beliefs about quality, it is not … surprising that high quality brands emphasize quality in their advertising content. What is less obvious is whether firms with … lower quality brands should also follow suit and emphasize quality in their advertising to signal a higher quality. We …

, quality, and suppliers — and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could … introduce bias that erodes inspection quality by altering inspector stringency. Our analysis of thousands of food safety … only food safety but also process quality, environmental practices, occupational safety, working conditions, and …

Collaborating with Yelp and the City of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by …