Informed Consumers Undermine Product Protests
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Keywords
Protest; boycotts; information aggregation; ethical voters; monopoly pricing;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D42 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Monopoly
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IND-2024-10-28 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2024-10-28 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-UPT-2024-10-28 (Utility Models and Prospect Theory)
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