Standardization and the costs of assessing quality

European Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 355-361

  Jones, Philip ^a   Hudson, John ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quality; Search; Signalling; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030243420     PISSN: 01762680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0176-2680(95)00021-6     Document Type: Article

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