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Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520

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  • Avi Goldfarb

    (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6, Canada)

  • Ginger Jin

    (Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742)

  • K. Sudhir

    (Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520)

Abstract

This article introduces the Marketing Science Special Issue on Consumer Protection. This special issue and an accompanying conference were conceived as a partnership with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. We outline the potential areas and opportunities for academic scholarship in marketing to inform regulation on consumer protection. We group the areas of potential research and the papers in the special issue into three broad buckets: (1) what consumers need protection from, especially the need for regulations in new industries; (2) the impact of existing regulations; and (3) the distributional impact of regulations. The article concludes with a call for ongoing policy-relevant research on consumer protection.

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  • Avi Goldfarb & Ginger Jin & K. Sudhir, 2020. "Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 39(1), pages 1-4, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormksc:v:39:y:2020:i:1:p:1-5
    DOI: 10.1287/mksc.2019.1205
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