Minimum quality standard regulation under imperfect quality observability

Journal of Regulatory Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 269-291

  Chen, Min ^a   Serfes, Konstantinos ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imperfect enforceability; Imperfect quality observability; Minimum quality standards; Regulation; Vertical differentiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857911630     PISSN: 0922680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11149-011-9165-0     Document Type: Article

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