Consumers have increasing demands for product standards. This has important implications for development. This paper … develops a formal theory of the process of the introduction of high product standards in developing countries. The model … endogenizes the introduction of high standards. Initial differences in income, the nature of capital constraints and transaction …

This paper presents a general political economy model of standards. We use the model to derive political and social … optima of nutrition and health standards in food markets, and to identify under which cases “understandardization” or “over …

We develop a general equilibrium households model to analyze the effects of high standards food chains taking seriously … dataset from China and do simulations through three ways: increasing world price of high standards food, increasing urban … households’ preference for high standards food, and relaxing credit constraints on high standards food production. The simulation …