# kaal:claim:4734750-026

**Claim.** Public price discovery is a necessary condition for consumer choice: without public pricing, consumers cannot realistically select the service provider that offers the highest value, and the resulting opacity enables insider deals that let a group of firms dictate price.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Source quote.**

> Price discovery is a key public services function because, without public pricing, consumers cannot realistically select the service provider that provides the highest value to the job poster.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Code Review DAO* (2024), Price Discovery, page 19

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Code Review DAO (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4734750

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `60eadf91c0913468505afc664c8d8d1e1673d6c5326d031ca7060addb8ab2eda` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20Code%20Review%20DAO.pdf

**Topics.** economics, disclosure

**Keywords.** price-discovery, transparency, consumer-choice, insider-deals

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-032
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-034
- extends: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3995709-035

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