final products produced by the formal- and informal-sector firms are vertically differentiated in terms of quality, and the … quality choice for the size of the informal sector. In the other case, the informal-sector firm produces an intermediate good …

search goods, we distinguish various legal services according to the degree of asymmetric information on quality …

final products produced by the formal- and informal-sector firms are vertically differentiated in terms of quality, and the … quality choice for the size of the informal sector. In the other case, the informal-sector firm produces an intermediate good …

Certification Programs,' estimates the consumer welfare benefits from the increase in scope of USDA beef quality certification … consumer welfare by approximately 2% of beef expenditure. The second essay, 'Grading and Quality Certification in Beef … of the USDA beef quality grading and certification programs is provided and related to the model. The third essay, 'When …

certification costs, certification that fully reveals information makes high quality producers better off, but make the entire … industry worse off. In this case, the benefit from the revelation of the quality does not outweigh certification costs and the …Consumers are in general less informed than producers about the quality of agricultural goods. To reduce the …

the ability of reputation to operate as amechanism for assuring quality. Second, the actual design of the certification …We study firm reputation as a mechanism to assure product quality in perfectly competitive marketsin a context in which … both certification and trademarks are available. Shapiro’s (1983) model ofreputation is extended to reflect both collective …

purpose of the excellence model induced by the principles of total quality management by importance (percentage) given to each …

Mobile applications users consider it especially important to have quality certification, and particularly in an e … (certified and non-certified mHealth apps). However, quality certification labels as a guarantee of the quality of apps do not … question. Therefore, with user satisfaction as a determinant of the quality of services, the purpose of the paper is to …