Do consumers learn from tasting scores set by experts?

Nicolas Vaillant () and François-Charles Wolff

Economics Bulletin, 2012, vol. 32, issue 2, 1378-1384

Abstract: Using data from whisky tastings and fixed effect regressions, we find that net of any composition effect, experts report different tasting scores on average. This indicates that consumers have little to learn from absolute scores.

Keywords: expert opinion; tasting score (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05-09
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