Because of their brand names, Kodak, IBM, Honda, Daimler-Chrysler, and other well-known firms are able to charge significantly higher prices for their products than their competitors without losing any business. Expenditures made by firms to create brand names:
a. are always inefficient.
b. provide reliability to consumers.
c. lead to monopolies.
d. necessarily lead to deadweight losses.
e. would not exist if information was less costly for firms to obtain than consumers.
b
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