Food labelling has become a major element of food policy. The growing importance of the topic is associated with a large variety of labels which refer to very different characteristics of foods and are linked to a growing number of quality assurance schemes. The economics of labelling is still...

It is well known that in a differential information economy the free coalition formation may imply some theoretical difficulties. It does not suffice to say that a coalition can be formed by several agents. We define a set of all possible coalitions as the set of those coalitions that can be...

Ken Arrow (1998) asks, “What has economics to say about racial discrimination?” He replies – entirely correctly – that racial “segregation within an industry – that is, firms with either all black or all white labor forces” – may be explained by economic theory, but “the...

Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) pricing schemes are becoming increasingly popular in a wide range of industries. We develop a model incorporating self-image into the buyer's utility function and introduce heterogeneity in consumption utility and image-sensitivity, which generates different purchase...

Introducción:Esta investigación estimó la elasticidad de la demanda intramolecular, marca y genérico, para tres patologías trazadoras, Hipertensión Esencial, Diabetes e Hiperlipidemia, en el mercado ético y privado colombiano, a partir de una especificación dinámica del modelo AIDS...

Many disasters are foreshadowed by insuficient preventive care. In this paper, we argue that there is a true problem of prevention, in that insu¢ cient care is often the result of rational calculations on the part of agents. We identify two factors that lead to dubious e¤orts in care. First,...

Esta investigación estimó la elasticidad de la demanda intramolecular, marca y genérico, para tres patologías trazadoras, hipertensión esencial, diabetes e hiperlipidemia, en el mercado ético y privado colombiano, a partir de una especificación dinámica del modelo AIDS basado en...

TThe formation of coalition may imply some theoretical difficulties, such as costs arising from forming a coalition or sharing information among agents. In this paper we will assume that only a subset S of the set of all possible coalitions in an economy is the set of admissible coalitions. We...

We present a model in which an agent takes actions to affect her reputation with two audiences with diverse preferences. This contrasts with standard reputation models that consider a homogeneous audience. A new aspect that arises is that different audiences may observe outcomes commonly or...

In this paper, we propose a reputation-signalling model of demand for consumer goods containing pro-social characteristics such as a ‘fair trade’ or ‘organic’ certification. We show that reputation signalling can reverse price reactions resembling the crowding-out of pre-existing motives...