Saints and Markets: Activists and the Supply of Credence Goods

By Timothy Feddersen, Thomas W. Gilligan. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Citations in the corpus

• Fostering Responsible Communities: A Community Social Marketing Approach to Sustainable Living (2011, background): “To move them forward, Hosking took on the role of the “information-supplying activist” (Feddersen and Gilligan, 2001), and suggested the campaign to make Modbury a plastic bag-free town.”
• Are Socially Responsible Managers Really Ethical? Exploring the Relationship between Earnings Management and Corporate Social Responsibility (2008, background): “Boycotts and lobbying are some of the examples of these actions (Baron, 2001; Feddersen and Gilligan, 2001; John and Klein, 2003).”
• A Theory of Consumer Boycotts Under Symmetric Information and Imperfect Competition (2006, unknown): “Despite a long history of consumer boycotts (Laidler, 1968; Smith, 1990) and increasing threats of (and responses to) boycotts for practices opposed by public interest groups (Feddersen and Gilligan, 2001), there has been surprisingly little formal economic analysis of this phenomenon.”
• Does the Market Respond to an Endorsement of Social Responsibility? The Role of Institutions, Information, and Legitimacy (2010, background): “Feddersen and Gilligan (2001) assert that activists and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) can play an important role in addressing this concern by supplying consumers with a public good, that is, information they can rely on to choose socially responsible firms and that would otherwise be…”
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Managerial Entrenchment (2007, unknown): “costly boycotts and media campaigns (see Baron 2001, Feddersen and Gilligan 2001, John and Klein 2001, and Dyck and Zingales 2002).”
• Movements, Markets and Fields: The Effects of Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns on U.S. Firms, 1993–2000 (2011, methodology): “We control for reputation score in the previous year and standard measures of performance (sales and return on assets, both from Compustat), following Flanagan et al. (2011), who show that these two factors effectively capture the “halo effect” in the Fortune reputation ratings.”
• Managerial Entrenchment and Corporate Social Performance (2008, background): “10 lobbying are some examples of these actions (Baron, 2001; Feddersen and Gilligan, 2001; John and Klein, 2003).”
• Transnational Private Regulation in Practice: The Limits of Forest and Labor Standards Certification in Indonesia (2010, background): “At the transnational level, the ―compromise of liberal environmentalism,‖ whereby major 119 Kotchen and Veld 2009 120 ala Feddersen and Gilligan 2001 121 ala Micheletti 2003 environmental NGOs became more accepting of market mechanisms in the latter part of the 20 th century 122 has no direct…”