Standards vs. labels with imperfect competition and asymmetric information

Economics Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-63

  Baltzer, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; Label; Minimum quality standard; Product quality; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054761059     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.09.032     Document Type: Article

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