Minimum quality standards and consumers' information

Economic Theory

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 283-302

  Garella, Paolo G ^a   Petrakis, Emmanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Horizontal and vertical product differentiation; Imperfect consumer information; Industry regulation; Minimum quality standards; Oligopoly

Indexed keywords

EID: 40349092621     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-007-0269-9     Document Type: Article

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