We explore gender differences in preferences related to altruism, fairness, cooperation, trust, coordination, risk and competitiveness in an experiment with a large random sample of the Swedish population. In addition to a baseline treatment, we have treatments where participants are primed with...

National industry standards create entry barriers which lead to the segmentation of international markets. Depending on the size of the testing cost required to certify a product's compliance with the national standard, and on the discount factor, trade in a particular market will be affected in...

Counterfeiting of trademarked products is an increasing problem in national and international trade. We contribute to the analysis of how counterfeiting affects markets by extending the work of Grossman and Shapiro (1988a) on consumption externalities in prestige good markets. We model a general...