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Voluntary disclosure of product quality in competitive markets

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  • Cristián Troncoso-Valverde

    (School of Business and Economics, Universidad del Desarrollo)

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This note examines the incentives to communicate private information about product quality in markets in which sellers can voluntarily disclose this information before competing on prices. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of two types of symmetric equilibria, one in which every type of seller fully discloses the quality of its product and one in which no such disclosures are made. We then show that if the disclosure cost is not too high the full disclosure equilibrium Pareto-dominates the full non-disclosure one, suggesting that competition may increase rather than reduce incentives to reveal information through disclosure

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  • Cristián Troncoso-Valverde, 2016. "Voluntary disclosure of product quality in competitive markets," Serie Working Papers 33, Universidad del Desarrollo, School of Business and Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:dsr:wpaper:33
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