Giraud-Heraud, Eric; Grazia, Cristina; Hammoudi, Abdelhakim - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
firms to improve the quality of a processed product by requiring that upstream suppliers adopt a private standard. In … contrast to previous literature, the incentive for firms to develop a more stringent private standard may increase with the … level of the regulated minimum quality standard. Moreover, the creation of a private standard can reduce the risk of …