This essay reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on quality disclosure and certification. After comparing … quality disclosure with other quality assurance mechanisms and describing a brief history of quality disclosure, we address … quality measurement, the effect of third party disclosure on consumer choice and seller behavior, as well as the economics of …

industry to the low penetration of techniques such as TQM and continuous improvement. Yet a vigorous tradition in the …

. Superintendents are the CEOs of a cluster of schools with powers to affect the quality of schooling, and we extend the approach used … schools with higher quality superintendents are more likely to address school climate, violence and bullying, and implement …

certain fraction of low-quality science characterizes all the equilibria in the basic model. In fact, the absence of detected … low-quality research can be interpreted as the lack of verification activities and thus as a potential limitation to the … reliability of a field. Incentivizing incremental research and verification activities improves the expected quality of research …

We develop a new model of quality to capture the idea that even if a customer chooses to purchase a product, it may … where firms first choose quality and then price. We find that in equilibrium, the high quality firm (the one with a higher … probability of being able to deliver') will always make higher profits than the low quality one even if costs of quality are …

productivity impacts of movements from traditional adversarial management, which is the norm in this industry, to total quality … management (TQM) and back again. How and why TQM is adopted may be just as important as whether it is adopted. Finally … large commercial aircraft. The analysis combines the deep firm- specific knowledge of management and labor typical of the …

product potentially can be improved a countably infinite number of times, but quality improvements require the investment of …

to financing constraints, but also do not seem to benefit from a patent quality signal …