Quality Disclosure and Certification: Theory and Practice
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...It is therefore important 60 See also the review of the literature on quality disclosure by Dranove and Jin (2010)....
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...57 For a related review on quality disclosure and certification, see Dranove and Jin (2010)....
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...Optimal disclosure design will likely borrow from the literature on multitasking (Holmstrom and Milgrom, 1991)....
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...Failure of unraveling: buyer-side reasons Fishman and Hagerty (2003); Hirshleifer, Lim, and Teoh (2004); Hotz and Xiao (2009); Milgrom and Roberts (1986); Schwartz (2008); Stivers (2004)...
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...The counter-intuitive relationship between competition and disclosure is not necessarily surprising; theorists have argued that zero-cost disclosure should unravel in a monopoly market (Grossman, 1981; Milgrom, 1981) but may not unravel in a differentiated duopoly (Board, 2008)....
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...…while “average” hospitals remain silent.16 Though Jovanovic focuses on a market with a large number of sellers, it is easy to extend the logic to monopoly as Grossman (1981) and Milgrom (1981) because disclosure incentives are driven by skeptical consumers instead of competition among sellers....
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...According to Grossman (1981) and Milgrom (1981), if a seller possesses better information about product quality than consumers do and there is zero cost to verifiably disclose it, sellers will always disclose....
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...For example, a financial analyst may bias a stock analysis due to career or reputation concerns (Scharfstein and Stein 1990, Ottaviani and Sorensen 2006)....
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