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Purpose The authors aimed to identify the opinions of young adult consumers regarding food processing companies' (FPCs) credibility in terms of food safety (FS). Design/methodology/approach The authors surveyed Generation Z (GenZ) consumers. The authors assessed the reliability of the research...
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Does earnings management, even though legal, hinder investor trust in reported earnings? Or do investors regard …, this effect occurs in industries where investor trust has recently been violated, and where managers would in the past have …
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consumer trust by increasing the possibility of detecting wrong labels. This lowers the incentive to produce low quality in the …
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-quality solar installations and consumer distrust that fuel one another. Quality and trust are essential drivers of successful … solution to enable a virtuous cycle is a third-party certification scheme, which could instill trust in consumers by …
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With credence goods consumers cannot judge the quality they receive compared to the quality they need. The needed quality can only be observed by an expert seller who may exploit the information asymmetry by cheating. In recent years various contributions have analyzed the credence goods problem...
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service providers to private donative trusts and a series of interviews with professional trust service providers in five … countries. I report new and unprecedented data on four controversial features of current trust practice: perpetual and extreme …-long-term trusts, trust terms exonerating trustees from liability to beneficiaries, tools rendering beneficiaries' entitlements …
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promotes consumers' trust and raises profit, but exogenously-imposed minimum quality standard can hamper trust when attributes …
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We extend Akerlof's (1970) "Market for Lemons" by assuming that some buyers are overconfident. Buyers in our model receive a noisy signal about the quality of the good that is at display for sale. Overconfident buyers do not update according to Bayes' rule but take the noisy signal at face...
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Feedback mechanisms that allow partners to rate each other after a transaction are considered crucial for the success of anonymous internet trading platforms. We document an asymmetry in the feedback behavior on eBay, propose an explanation based on the micro structure of the feedback mechanism...
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