Expert opinion aids consumers purchasing a good they have no personal experience with. Previous research has found little to no impact of expert opinion on price. Evidence from panels of cigar reviewers shows that the explanatory power of the experts’ rating improves as more reviews are used.

There is a substantial body of evidence to the effect that output is more volatile than sales among manufacturing industries. Numerous explanations have been advanced to account for this excess output volatility. Some examples are pro-cyclical inventory movements induced by a stockout-avoidance...

This article examines the impact of professional sports franchises in labour markets using data from the March Supplement to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for workers employed in specific occupational groups in all large US cities from 1983 to 2002. Results from a standard wage model...