Why is price useless to signal environmental quality ?
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Keywords
Environmental Quality; Asymmetric Information; Price Signaling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2018-01-08 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-ENE-2018-01-08 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2018-01-08 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HME-2018-01-08 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-REG-2018-01-08 (Regulation)
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