interaction within the supply-chain (i.e. with suppliers and customers) or not (with competitors). It further controls for the …

We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers … reflected in the buyer's choice of a more competitive procurement strategy among potential suppliers. …

suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher … productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …

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 …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services across patent offices. Quality is … EPO provides higher-quality and more expensive services than the USPTO, while the JPO is in an intermediate position … Lerner's (2004) conjecture of a vicious cycle between quality of examinations and demand for patents; and 2) highlight the …

Performance indicators are increasingly used to regulate quality in health care and other areas of the public sector …) higher ability increases quality directly and indirectly (through a lower marginal cost of quality); b) the provider can game … impact on quality, quality effort is lower and distortions from informational rents are higher; under some conditions more …

Investigations of the effect of quality differences on heterogeneous performance in exporting have been limited by lack … of direct measures of quality. We examine exports of French wine, matching the exporting firms to producer ratings from … two wine guides. We show that high quality producers export to more markets, charge higher prices, and sell more in each …

We study the relationship between competition and quality within a spatial competition framework where firms compete in … prices and quality. We generalise existing literature on spatial price-quality competition along several dimensions …, including utility functions that are non-linear in income and cost functions that are non-separable in output and quality. Our …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … increasing, the steady state quality is higher under the open- loop solution than under the closed-loop solution. Fiercer … competition (lower transportation costs and/or less sluggish demand) leads to higher quality in both solutions, but the quality …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … utilities) taking a differential game approach, in which quality is a stock variable. Using a Hotelling framework, we derive the … the marginal provision cost is increasing, investment and quality are lower in the closed-loop solution: in fact, quality …