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Article: Trust Building in Credence Goods Markets
Title | Trust Building in Credence Goods Markets |
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Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, v. 14 n. 1, p. 490-528 How to Cite? |
Abstract | We study trust building in credence-goods markets in a dynamic setting. When consumers' expected loss is low and it is efficient to fix only the more severe problem, there is no trade in the one-shot game. In the repeated game, an expert's honesty is monitored through consumers' rejection of his recommendations. The expert's profit in the optimal equilibrium weakly increases in the discount factor but does not achieve the first best, which contrasts sharply with the optimal equilibrium in experience-goods markets. The optimal equilibrium involves undertreatment if the expert is sufficiently patient, and overtreatment if he is moderately patient. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/310958 |
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dc.contributor.author | Fong, YF | - |
dc.contributor.author | Liu, T | - |
dc.contributor.author | Meng, X | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-25T04:57:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-25T04:57:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022, v. 14 n. 1, p. 490-528 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/310958 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We study trust building in credence-goods markets in a dynamic setting. When consumers' expected loss is low and it is efficient to fix only the more severe problem, there is no trade in the one-shot game. In the repeated game, an expert's honesty is monitored through consumers' rejection of his recommendations. The expert's profit in the optimal equilibrium weakly increases in the discount factor but does not achieve the first best, which contrasts sharply with the optimal equilibrium in experience-goods markets. The optimal equilibrium involves undertreatment if the expert is sufficiently patient, and overtreatment if he is moderately patient. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | - |
dc.title | Trust Building in Credence Goods Markets | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Fong, YF: yukfaims@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Meng, X: xxmeng@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Fong, YF=rp02535 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1257/mic.20180313 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85126808966 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 331860 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 14 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 490 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 528 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000751668100015 | - |