Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exhibit intermediate patterns. This paper explores the situation in which consumers know the average quality offered by a set of producers, but not the quality of one given product. A first issue is how such an aggregate signal shapes competition when strategic variables are quantity and quality. The equilibrium welfare function is convex in the number of competing firms as a consequence of decreasing quality and increasing quantity. A second issue is regulation. It is possible to trade-off quantity against quality through a number of regulatory tools. Among one-instrument policies, entry and quantity regulation perform better than price-based r...
We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator prefers limiting the output, or ...
Angelo ZagoTraditionally, the main economic analysis of agricultural policies has centered on quanti...
URL des Documents de travail : http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/cesdp2013.htmlDocuments de travail du...
Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exh...
Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exh...
Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exh...
In this paper we develop a model of product quality and rms reputation. If quality is not veri able...
In this paper we develop a model of product quality and rms reputation. If quality is not veri abl...
This paper examines a market where buyers cannot judge the quality of the good they receive until af...
This paper examines a market where buyers cannot judge the quality of the good they receive until af...
We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator is best advised to limit the out...
Participants in a supply chain of agricultural value-added products face significant challenges. Man...
Participants in a supply chain of agricultural value-added products face significant challenges. Man...
A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind ...
A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind ...
We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator prefers limiting the output, or ...
Angelo ZagoTraditionally, the main economic analysis of agricultural policies has centered on quanti...
URL des Documents de travail : http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/cesdp2013.htmlDocuments de travail du...
Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exh...
Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exh...
Between market unraveling and individual reputation building, markets for experience goods often exh...
In this paper we develop a model of product quality and rms reputation. If quality is not veri able...
In this paper we develop a model of product quality and rms reputation. If quality is not veri abl...
This paper examines a market where buyers cannot judge the quality of the good they receive until af...
This paper examines a market where buyers cannot judge the quality of the good they receive until af...
We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator is best advised to limit the out...
Participants in a supply chain of agricultural value-added products face significant challenges. Man...
Participants in a supply chain of agricultural value-added products face significant challenges. Man...
A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind ...
A repeated-purchases model is developed to explore the fundamental economic factors that lie behind ...
We show in a simple model of entry with sunk cost, that a regulator prefers limiting the output, or ...
Angelo ZagoTraditionally, the main economic analysis of agricultural policies has centered on quanti...
URL des Documents de travail : http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/cesdp/cesdp2013.htmlDocuments de travail du...