Information Supplement: A Law and Economics Analysis on the Advertising Disclosure Program

LI Mingwei, DONG Lei

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Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2016, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (8) : 149-165.

Information Supplement: A Law and Economics Analysis on the Advertising Disclosure Program

  • Li Mingwei is a Professor at School of Media and Communication in Shenzhen University. Email: limingwei02@sohu.com. Dong Lei is a graduate student at School of Media and Communication in Shenzhen University. Email:767671628@qq.com. This paper is granted by the Excellent Young University Teachers Fostering Project of Education Department of Guangdong Province (Project NO.: Yq2013146).
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As an important system fghting false advertising, the advertising disclosure program has been implemented in many countries. By tracing and analyzing the origination and application of the program as well as its detailed rules, related disputes in U.S., this paper intends to demonstrate its principles and values as well as the goal of law and economics, and concludes that the advertising disclosure program is an elaborate systematical design for fghting false advertising. It not only respects the freedom of commercial speech of enterprises, but also protects consumers’ right to know, and reduces the transaction and regulation costs, in which consumers could make independent rational consuming decisions based on key projects of their deals. Only from the perspective of consumers, the effect of institutional implementation is not perfect, but it is a relatively fair and economical system in terms of the whole social interest.

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false advertising / Federal Trade Commission(FTC) / advertising disclosure program / clear and conspicuous standard

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LI Mingwei, DONG Lei. Information Supplement: A Law and Economics Analysis on the Advertising Disclosure Program. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2016, 38(8): 149-165

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This paper is granted by the Excellent Young University Teachers Fostering Project of Education Department of Guangdong Province (Project NO.: Yq2013146).

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