关于消费者权利的不完美信息:对效率和分配的影响

IF 1 3区 社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS
Florian Baumann, Tim Friehe, Tobias Wenzel
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摘要

本文表明,消费者权利的规定可能会引起意外的分配效应,在特定情况下,当一些消费者不了解这些权利时,甚至可能会降低福利。我们发现,当知情消费者比例较高时,对强制保修不知情的消费者可能会要求过高的安全产品。在其他情况下,不知情的消费者会像知情消费者一样购买高效或低效的不安全产品,但前者会通过企业定价对后者进行交叉补贴。关于改善消费者权利信息这一突出的政策选择,我们发现,增加知情消费者的比例可能会提高无效率的风险。
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Imperfect Information About Consumer Rights: Implications for Efficiency and Distribution
This paper shows that the provision of consumer rights can induce unintended distributional effects and may, under specific circumstances, even decrease welfare when some consumers are unaware of these rights. We find that consumers who are uninformed about a mandated warranty may demand excessively safe products when the share of informed consumers is high. In other circumstances, uninformed consumers buy the efficient or an inefficiently unsafe products like informed consumers, but the former cross-subsidize the latter via firms’ pricing. Concerning the salient policy option of improving information about consumer rights, we find that increasing the share of informed consumers may raise the risk of inefficiency.
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期刊介绍: The rise of the field of law and economics has been extremely rapid over the last 25 years. Among important developments of the 1990s has been the founding of the American Law and Economics Association. The creation and rapid expansion of the ALEA and the creation of parallel associations in Europe, Latin America, and Canada attest to the growing acceptance of the economic perspective on law by judges, practitioners, and policy-makers.
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