caa a22 4500 378847678 CHVBK 20180305123315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200305 xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/1468-2516.t01-2-00009 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/1468-2516.t01-2-00009 Sinn Hans-Werner Ifo Institut, München Verbraucherschutz als Staatsaufgabe [Elektronische Daten] [Hans-Werner Sinn] This articles reviews the arguments for consumer protection policies by the government by referring to the Nobel prices on asymmetric information problems. It discusses criteria for assessing the empirical importance of lemons goods and comments on the relative merits of quality constraints and the provision of information. Particular emphasis is placed on the question of whether consumer protection policies could survive unbridled systems competition among the EU countries, and a negative answer is provided. To counteract such an outcome, a national policy of monitoring, assessing and publishing product qualities is recommended. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik De Gruyter 4/2(2003-05), 281-294 1465-6493 4:2<281 2003 4 pwp https://doi.org/10.1515/1468-2516.t01-2-00009 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/1468-2516.t01-2-00009 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sinn Hans-Werner Ifo Institut, München NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik De Gruyter 4/2(2003-05), 281-294 1465-6493 4:2<281 2003 4 pwp CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter