Welfare and product testing by a regulat
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Tim S. Campbell; Yuk-Shee Chan; Anthony M. Marino
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Article
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1991
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Springer US
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English
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This paper studies a monopoly firm with the ability to conduct costly pre-market testing of its product in order to predict how safe this product is to consume. While there are private incentives to test, the amount of testing effort supplied by a monopolist need not be optimal. In a model which all