Expert qualification in markets for expert services: A Sisyphean Task?
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Keywords
credence goods; expert market; laboratory experiment; expert qualification; second opinions; price competition;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2017-10-15 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-EXP-2017-10-15 (Experimental Economics)
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