Credence goods, efficient labelling policies, and regulatory enforcement

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 411-430

  Baksi, Soham ^a   Bose, Pinaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Corruption; Credence goods; Eco labelling; Monitoring; Self labelling; Third party labelling

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC POLICY; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

CREDENCE GOODS; ECO-LABELLING; SELF-LABELING; THIRD PARTY LABELING;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

BENCHMARKING; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; CORRUPTION; ECOLABELING; GOODS EXCHANGE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MODELING; REGULATORY APPROACH; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 34249727414     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-006-9032-0     Document Type: Article

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