product quality explain twice as much of the variation in export revenues than cost. …

' behavior and firms' incentives to upgrade product quality in markets where information is traditionally limited. I first build … a model of consumer search with firms' endogenous quality decisions. In this model, lower search costs reallocate demand … toward higher-quality producers, raising firms' incentives to upgrade quality, and more so for firms selling ex-ante lower-quality …

the importance of representative consumer taste relative to quality and marginal cost in export success. We find …

, we contrast producer liability and minimum quality standard regulation as alternative means of social control of product … relative desirability of strict liability vis-à-vis minimum quality standard regulation from a social welfare standpoint. We … also clarify when and why joint use of strict liability and minimum quality standard regulation welfare dominates the …

dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States … relatively close to zero, suggesting that any quality improvements from co-payments are small. …

partially or completely prohibit that retailers distribute their high-quality products over the internet. Our analysis is based … overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low …-price environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local …

to self-preferencing: Apple's apps are more likely to be ranked higher than independent apps conditional on app quality … identified self-preferencing modestly increases the quality of independent apps on average. Furthermore, the elimination improves …

natural experiment which eradicates a listing-level quality certificate for all listings because of a system glitch. Results … suggest that consumers dislike search advertising in our setting, but quality certificates mitigate this aversion and increase …

low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality. …