Quantity restrictions and endogenous quality choice

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1259-1277

  Herguera, Iñigo ^a   Kujal, Praveen ^b   Petrakis, Emmanuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

F12; Quality downgrading; Quotas; VERs; Vertically differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034367016     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7187(99)00003-x     Document Type: Article

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