Quality certification standards in competitive markets: When consumers and producers (dis)agree

Economics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 144-147

  Lapan, Harvey ^a   Moschini, GianCarlo ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative statics; Log concavity; Minimum quality standards; Quality certification; Vertical product differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649664265     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.05.001     Document Type: Article

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