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WHEN DO TRANSPARENT PACKAGES INCREASE (OR DECREASE) FOOD
CONSUMPTION?
Xiaoyan Deng
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State University
2100 Neil Ave., Fisher Hall 534, Columbus, OH 43210
Email: deng_84@fisher.osu.edu
Raji Srinivasan
Associate Professor of Marketing
Red McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin
CBA 7.248, Austin, TX 78712-1176
Email: raji.srinivasan@mccombs.utexas.edu
The authors thank Susan Broniarczyk, Andrew Gershoff, Shen Hao, Szu-Chi Huang, Raj
Raghunathan, Ying Zhang, and Juliet Zhu for their useful feedback on a previous version of the
manuscript and Sandeep Arora and Debika Sihi for their assistance with the experiments.