Inferior Products and Profitable Deception

DOI10.1093/restud/rdw037zbMath1471.91169OpenAlexW2487003007MaRDI QIDQ3382377

Botond Kőszegi, Takeshi Murooka, Paul Heidhues

Publication date: 21 September 2021

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdw037

zbMATH Keywords

credit cardsmutual fundsnaivetedeceptive productinferior productprofitable deception

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microeconomic theory (price theory and economic markets) (91B24)

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