perfection has been achieved the individual will aim for higher quality since the effort is more likely to be worthwhile. Because … standards may nonetheless decline. This mechanism is captured in an oligopoly model, where the failure rate and the quality are …

wage countries will export goods intensive in skilled labor (a hierarchy is proposed from 'expensive', skilled …

We apply a simple method to study the relative quality of Chinese versus European products exported in the clothing … change of export prices and quantities sold in narrowly defined product categories as an indicator of quality shifts. Using … indication of China moving up the quality ladder in its clothing exports relative to the EU. While European ‘core’ products in …

providers of contents incentives to invest in higher quality and, as a result, force competitors to reduce their prices …

We present a model of optimal contracting between a purchaser and a provider of health services when quality has two … dimensions. We assume that one dimension of quality is verifiable (dimension 1) and one dimension is not verifiable (dimension 2 … quality 1 increases or decreases the provider's marginal disutility and the patients' marginal benefit from quality 2 (i …

-stage model with quality choice made before price competition takes place, we show that EU anti-dumping policy that takes the form … impact of the A-D policy on quality choices is taken into account, European Welfare as well as profits accruing to the …