Worried about Adverse Product Effects? Information Disclosure and Consumer Awareness
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Keywords
Information disclosure; informative advertising; consumer awareness;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
- L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
- M3 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2010-10-02 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CTA-2010-10-02 (Contract Theory and Applications)
- NEP-MKT-2010-10-02 (Marketing)
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