Expert Costs and the Role of Verifiability
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Keywords
Credence Goods; Expert Costs; Liability; Verifiability;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAW-2016-10-23 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2016-10-23 (Microeconomics)
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