This paper analyzes the impact of vertical integration on product quality. Contrary to previous findings, it is shown … that integration decreases quality in many natural situations. In general, the direction of the quality change is governed …

reduce cost for products and realize quality improvements and cost reduction potential by a logical and well …

quality and timing of market entry. Irreversibility of the investment in product development is introduced in a continuous …-Nash game for quality choice. When the follower provides a higher-quality good, the level of quality is decreasing in ambiguity … aversion while it is a non-monotonic function of the level of risk. For low levels of risk, the increase of product quality is …

the problems that semantic web databases raise for the quality characteristic. We try to identify which are the main … current literature, discussing the main practical aspects resulted from tests and analysis and treating the problem of quality … area of testing this quality. We start the paper with an introduction, we continue by presenting the research design, we …

number of low-quality applications in China and created biased patent statistics as an indicator for innovations. We found … that patent filing fee subsidies encouraged filing of low-quality patent, resulting in a decreased grant rate. Though … results confirmed a general concern that patent subsidies have side effects in encouraging patent applications of low quality …

's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the …'s (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality choice. The model predicts that a reduction … in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to raise its …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the effects of the quality of institutions on inflation. Using …

connection with milk quality and price evolution; certain variants and measures were designed to narrow the gaps of productivity …