Can information costs affect consumer choice? Nutritional labels in a supermarket experiment

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  2013

• Venue

  International Journal of Industrial Organization

• Publication date

  2013-03-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics

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  DOI 10.1016/J.IJINDORG.2010.11.002
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