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Not a fan of how verbose and hedge-y the paper is, but I guess thats academia.

In plain English, the question is "Are beef middlemen ripping off customers? (On purpose or through asymmetric laziness)"

and the answer is "No! (Actually they try to, but people don't fall for it)."

Yeah?

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That's a reasonable summary of the motivation behind the literature. If we have this kind of asymmetry, it's because consumers are getting ripped off, is how the argument usually goes.

I think it's important to recognize that if consumers are temporarily buying lower quality beef, they're still hurt (but probably not enough that anyone cares).

you speak too plainly ahahah, academics don't like it.

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