We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban … milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes …

-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only high quality sellers would reward buyers for truthful … generate sales that are nearly 30% higher and are sold by higher quality sellers. The market design implication is that … marketplaces can benefit from allowing sellers to use rewards to build reputations and signal their high quality in the process …

A hedonic model featuring quality-quantity tradeoffs reveals a number of surprising market behaviors that can result …. Quality need not clear a competitive market in the same way that prices do, because quality can reduce the willingness to pay … for quantity. Producers can benefit from price ceilings, at the expense of consumers. Price ceilings can result in quality …

Poorly functioning, and often corrupt, public procurement procedures are widely faulted for the low quality of … find no evidence that e-procurement reduces prices paid by the government, but do find that it is associated with quality … improvements. In India, where we observe an independent measure of construction quality, e-procurement improves the average road …

's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … simple analytic framework that relates a firm's choice of quality to its access to imported intermediates. The model predicts … that a reduction in the import tariff induces an incumbent importer/exporter to increase the quality of its exports and to …

first experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality relying on an intervention that … after the intervention, product prices decreased by about 5 percent while service quality perceived by consumers improved …

We study the effect of price salience on whether a product is purchased and, conditional on purchase, the quality … both the quality and quantity of goods purchased. The effect of salience on quality accounts for at least 28% of the … quality tickets …

heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and consumer purchase intent related to branded products of various quality … of counterfeit entry on sales of authentic products of three quality tiers, finding that counterfeits have both …