We analyze educational institutions’ incentives to set up demanding or lax curricula induopolistic markets for education with endogenous enrolment of students. We assume thatthere is a positive externality of student achievement on the local economy. Comparingthe case of regulated tuition fees...

This paper analyses price competition under product differentiation when goods are defined ina two dimensional characteristic space, and consumers do not know which firm sells whichquality. Equilibrium prices consist of two additive terms, which balance consumers' relativevaluation of goods'...