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Consumer Protection Policies, Economics, and Interactions with Competition Policy

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Paul Pautler, Apr 24, 2008

The Spring 2008 issue of Competition Policy International features four papers focusing on consumer protection policy. The papers by Armstrong, Beales, Rubin, and Tesauro & Russo present a tour of the logical basis for consumer protection policy and a review of the recent legal rules in the European Union and Italy. There is no book (yet) on consumer protection economics, but this collection of papers would make a nice start for such a text, particularly with regard to the advertising regulation component of consumer protection. There are some topics that cut across the various papers. I will discuss three of those topics:

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    • 1) market-based incentives for firms to disclose information in markets;
    • 2) the application of behavioral economics in consumer policy; and
    • 3) the connections between consumer protection and competition policies at a practical level and at the more important conceptual level.

    Before discussing these common elements, I provide a description of the papers.

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