Liability in Markets for Credence Goods
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Keywords
Credence goods; private information; diagnosis effort; undertreatment; overtreatment; liability;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
- K13 - Law and Economics - - Basic Areas of Law - - - Tort Law and Product Liability; Forensic Economics
- 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-2017-07-23 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2017-07-23 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-MKT-2017-07-23 (Marketing)
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