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- Title
The Role of Sales Agents in Information Disclosure: Evidence from a Field Experiment.
- Authors
Allcott, Hunt; Sweeney, Richard L.
- Abstract
With a large nationwide retailer, we run a natural field experiment to measure the effects of energy use information disclosure, customer rebates, and sales agent incentives on demand for energy-efficient durable goods. Although a combination of large rebates plus sales incentives substantially increases market share, information and sales incentives alone each have zero statistical effect and explain at most a small fraction of the low baseline market share. Sales agents strategically comply only partially with the experiment, targeting information to more interested consumers but not discussing energy efficiency with the disinterested majority. These results suggest that seller-provided information is not a major barrier to energy-efficiency investments at current prices in this context. Data, as supplemental material, are available at . This paper was accepted by John List, behavioral economics.
- Subjects
ENERGY consumption research; REBATES; PRICE cutting; MARKET share; SALES incentive programs
- Publication
Management Science, 2017, Vol 63, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0025-1909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1287/mnsc.2015.2327