Traceability is an increasingly prominent research topic in decentralised technosocial systems in fields as diverse as health, sustainability, finance, and supply chain management. At the same time, traceability connotes different meanings and potentialities within each of these fields. This...

We examine the effects of the PBE program, which made the adoption of energy labels mandatory in the Brazilian refrigerator market. Using data from a nationally representative sample of households, we estimate a structural model of appliance choice. We document a modest increase in the valuation...

Consumers may not directly perceive some product attributes that are beneficial but costly to produce, giving rise to a lemons problem and potentially inhibiting efficient trade. This paper explores whether third-party certification provides a potential solution to the asymmetric information...

To learn about the role of information content and source as catalysts to increase consumers' valuation of fairly traded foods, we conducted an online survey with 2500 consumers representative of the German population. Within the online survey, respondents were randomly assigned to one of five...

We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a...