property after marriage becomes the crucial issue. The focus of this article is whether the intangible asset of goodwill of a … jurisdiction have addressed the issue. On one extreme are those that refuse to acknowledge professional goodwill as a marital asset …. On the other are those that recognize goodwill even if what is being valued appears to be reputation. In the middle are …

Consumers often cannot judge the quality of goods and services at the time of the purchase decision. The goodwill model …, experience goods and credence goods. In markets for experience goods the goodwill mechanism can ensure completely by itself that … suppliers behave with integrity. The goodwill mechanism causes irreversible costs of the market entrance in the form of goodwill …