Are solar panels commodities? A Bayesian hierarchical approach to detecting quality differences and asymmetric information

Volume: 280, Issue: 1, Pages: 365 - 382
Published: Jan 1, 2020
Abstract
Solar panels should not be considered commodities. Considerable quality differences, as measured directly by degradation of production over time, are found between manufacturers. I test two implications from the theory of asymmetric information of quality and find: (1) Solar power systems with high-information third-party owners display higher quality than host-owned systems. (2) Furthermore, with a 85% probability, the price of solar panels...
Paper Details
Title
Are solar panels commodities? A Bayesian hierarchical approach to detecting quality differences and asymmetric information
Published Date
Jan 1, 2020
Volume
280
Issue
1
Pages
365 - 382
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