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Market Integration, Demand, and the Growth of Firms: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in India
The American Economic Review, 2018 In many developing countries, the average firm is small, does not grow, and has low productivity. Lack of market integration and limited information on non-local products often leave consumers unaware of the prices and quality of non-local firms.
Robert Jensen, Nolan H. Miller
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Wall Street and Product Quality: The Duality of Analysts
Accounting ReviewWe investigate the role of financial analysts in product quality failures. Relying on information about product recalls, we first show that analyst coverage on average reduces product quality, particularly when managers face greater short-term pressure
Yinghua Li +3 more
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Quality Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Taste Projection in Markets with Observational Learning
The American Economic ReviewWe study how misperceptions of others’ tastes influence beliefs, demand, and prices in markets with observational learning. Consumers infer a good’s quality from the quantity demanded and price paid by others.
Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, A. Rosato
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Technology Coopetition and Voluntary Disclosures of Innovation
Accounting ReviewWe examine firms’ voluntary disclosures of innovation under technology coopetition, focusing on technology standard setting organizations (SSOs).
Jun Oh, P. Yeung, Bo Zhu
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The Socioeconomic Distribution of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands
American Economic Review: InsightsWe study how choice quality relates to socioeconomic factors, using population-wide data on health insurance choices and utilization in the Netherlands.
Benjamin Handel +3 more
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Accounting ReviewWe employ a sharp regression discontinuity design to identify the causal effects of investor-base disclosure (IB DISCLOSE) on funding outcomes and entrepreneurship success.
John (Jianqiu) Bai +3 more
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Test Design and Minimum Standards
The American Economic Review, 2019 We analyze test design and certification standards when an uninformed seller has the option to generate and disclose costly information regarding asset quality.
P. DeMarzo +2 more
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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2017 Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of “voice” when individuals confront an unexpected deterioration in quality. Yet, voice has received little attention.
J. Gans, Avi Goldfarb, Mara Lederman
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Quality Overprovision in Cable Television Markets
The American Economic Review, 2019 We measure the welfare distortions from endogenous quality choice in imperfectly competitive markets. For US cable television markets between 1997–2006, prices are 33 percent to 74 percent higher and qualities 23 percent to 55 percent higher than ...
Gregory S. Crawford +2 more
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Market Structure, Reputation, and the Value of Quality Certification
, 2014 Daniel W. Elfenbein +2 more
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