Misconduct in Credence Good Markets

We thank Luciano de Castro, Tim Feddersen, Craig Garthwaite, Tom Hubbard, Bruno Jullien, Mike Mazzeo, Nicola Persico, Mike Powell, Max Schanzenbach and seminar participants at the Harvard Business School, Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley, Kellogg School of Management, Florida State University, NYU Stern, 2012 NBER Law & Economics Summer Institute, Center for Research in Economics and Strategy Conference, 2013 IIOC, and LMU Munich Workshop on Natural Experiments and Controlled Field Studies for helpful comments. We are grateful to Eric Zhang and Tongtong Shi for excellent research assistance. We also thank individuals at the Texas Department of Insurance for their help in acquiring the data. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• December 4, 2012
• May 16, 2013