likely to have higher SCC levels. There are two forces at play concerning the quality of organic milk relative to … conventional milk. For one, required and proscribed production practices create significant problems when managing milk quality …. Secondly, a large premium exists to produce organic milk of high quality. This research seeks to better understand these and …

We study firm reputation as a mechanism to assure product quality in perfectly competitive markets in a context in … improves the ability of reputation to operate as a mechanism for assuring quality. Second, the actual design of the … implications for the current debate and negotiations on GIs at the World Trade Organization and the ongoing product quality policy …

regulation and product quality. …

of grape quality, and we test for the presence of complementary implicit incentives that arise from competition in the …-term contracts for high-quality provision. In general, farmers that have invested in high-quality production, and those that are more …

intransitives in choice sets. Buyers are selecting lower quality coffees and paying higher prices for these coffees because they …

competing with the National Brand (NB) products. From a policy perspective, an increased availability of high-quality PL …

We investigate the economic importance of implicit quality incentives in an agricultural market that lacks the … institutional capacity for measuring quality verifiably. We measure the magnitude of implicit price premiums for quality, and we … premiums comparable in magnitude to premiums observed in other agricultural markets where quality is measured verifiably …