first experimental evidence on the effect of increased competition on prices and quality relying on an intervention that … power. In those situations, governments could attempt to regulate the market or to increase competition. We provide the … after the intervention, product prices decreased by about 5 percent while service quality perceived by consumers improved …

quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects. Some evidence suggests that nursing homes in less competitive local …

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 …

increase use of high-quality inputs, as oligopolistic firms underuse these inputs when entry is constrained. We assess these … cardiac surgery in the state. We show that entry led to a redistribution of surgeries to higher-quality surgeons and that this …

We investigate empirically the determinants of the quality of governments in a large cross-section of countries. We …

from California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Quality of child care is controlled by a quality index, which … 18 percent higher than other centers, keeping quality of services constant. No statistically significant differences … distinguishable from their for-profit counterparts. In agreement with previous studies, the data show that the average quality of …

We study the relationship between firms' output quality and their choice of organizational structure. To do so, we use … data on each step of the production and transaction chain that makes up Peruvian fishmeal manufacturing. We first show that … quality upgrading is an important motive for vertically integrating. Firms integrate suppliers when the quality premium …

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis …, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …. Using uniquely rich and representative data on the unit values of outputs and inputs of Colombian manufacturing plants, we …